On our second day in Calgary we took a longer bus ride to go to Heritage Park (described as “one of Canada’s Largest Living History Museums”). The place was swamped by teenagers benefitting the School Safety Patrol Appreciation Day Picnic (there were 4,000 kids there!), but thankfully we mostly avoided them. Most interesting to us were the original houses (from the 1860s to the 1950s) that had been dismantled and rebuilt on site along with furniture and the everyday stuff of the period …these really showed how people lived. There was an indigenous people’s part too but that could have been a lot larger and with more information. I sketched this (the Shonts Grain Elevator built in 1909) from the spot where we sat and ate our lunch.

Fri-6-Jun-2025