Posts Tagged ‘Curb Appeal’

Curb Appeal | End of the Line

Author: Alberta Venture
Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s private campaign car pulled into the Aspen Crossing faux-railway station in 2006

Curb Appeal | Good Carma

Author: Alberta Venture
Forget the corner office. Patti Morris, executive director at Wellspring Calgary, a charity that runs programs for recovering cancer patients, has an even more enviable workspace

Curb Appeal | Main Street Cowboy

Author: Alberta Venture
by Geoff Morgan With country and western guitar twanging in the background and leather wares and cowboy hats hanging from the store’s front windows, George’s Harness and Saddlery would fit seamlessly as a backdrop in a Clint Eastwood western. But when it comes to this small town tack shop, looks can be deceiving. While its appearance [...]
by Geoff Morgan Old books, tin globes, antique furniture and a wood-burning stove – the hub of Blackbird Coffee House – sit proudly under an enormous blue fresco on the ceiling of what was once Coleman’s Catholic parish. Owner and proprietor Kym Howse admits to being something of a magpie, and the eclectic wares dotting the [...]

Lonely Hall on the Prairie

Author: Alberta Venture
Curb Appeal by Geoff Morgan When the Canadian Pacific Railway advertised the West’s rich soil as the most fertile land in the world, the Toogood family left Newmarket, England, in a hurry. Their final steam whistle sounded in Chancellor, once home to five grain elevators, a hotel, a pool hall, the Sunnyrange School and an economy. Charlie [...]