Search for the Henry and Lylie Candy Homestead

One of our objectives while in Alberta was to investigate and visit the homestead property of Ken's grandparents. This homestead was were Ken's mother was born in 1916.  The Candy family emigrated from the Alberta homestead to Los Angeles when Ken's mother Eileen was age 6.
The property was located near Kinsella AB, but was and is located in Flagstaff County rather than Beaver County, which Kinsella is part of. In fact the homestead is on the county line. This explains why all public documents we have seen were processed in Sedgewick, which is still the location for the Flagstaff County administration office.  We drove to Sedgewick one evening to try and find information about the current owner of the homestead,  We arrived just before closing but Brent, shown here with Ken, was a wonderful help.  Brent spent almost an hour after closing helping us look through the available property records (which only date back to the early 1940's) and advising us on who to contact regarding the property. We purchased a county property map that lists all of the current owners of the quarter sections in the county. Armed with this information we would attempt to contact the current owners of the homestead property.  Stay tuned - the trip the following weekend to discover family roots near Kinsella was remarkable.

Stettler Museum - Part 4

The final installment of photos from the Stettler Town and Country Museum. As usual more images if you read more.

Stettler Museum - Part 3

Continuing with photos from the Stetler museum that capture the homestead through mid-century period in Alberta. Read on for more photos.

Stettler Town and Country Museum - Part 2

The Museum Included Many of What Were Once Ordinary Items of Life

Continuing the photo log of the Stettler Town and Country Museum.  More to follow in later posts, but read on for this batch.

Tour Day - Stettler Town and Country Museum

Fellow RVICS-er Wayne Wooden Loves Garages and Old Tools

RVICS projects involve three and a half  days of work on the project and Friday is 'tour' day where the team chooses a local attraction to visit, usually followed by lunch somewhere nearby.

For our first RVICS tour day the group went to the the town of Stettler, about 35 minutes drive. Stettler is the closest town with a supermarket so we have made several trips to Stettler so far.

For tour day we visited the Stettler Town and Country Museum, one of the many local heritage museums (most villages have one) but with a reputation of being one of the best in Alberta.  It was indeed excellent.  We took a lot of pictures and even after sifting through them there are a lot to share.  These will be spread out over several posts, but read on for the first batch.  Enjoy!

Tail Gate Grilling

On the first Saturday after our arrival in Alberta we went into Red Deer and among other things purchased Ken's Fathers Day present - a Weber grill! It was immediately put to use making cedar plank salmon. The grill fits perfectly on the truck tail gate and even with all of the tool boxes it can ride in the bed.

Ken made his favorite Caesar dressing and the combined result was Cedar Plank Salmon Caesar Salad.  Roughing it in the Arctic Fox.