I've seen a few buildings, usually abandoned or derelict, decorated with graffiti in a way that really works. Like this one. It's not randomly spray painted with personal tags or art. It was intentionally painted with a plan, and its beautiful. I've been reading a little about graffiti. Originally connected with hip hop music, now its standing on its own as an art form. Sometimes political, some still about music, and some just completely eye catching and turning plain into magical.
Heritage exploration on the Prairies. From ghost towns to hospitals and everything in between, our focus is documenting sites through historical research, photography, videography, and drone footage.
We specialize in abandoned photography across Saskatchewan.
I have a deep connection to forgotten spaces - remnants of the past in the vast expanse of the Saskatchewan landscape. Chasing Yesterday Photography embodies a quest for memory, history, and the beauty found in the forgotten, all intricately tied to the endless skies of the prairie. It’s about the stories waiting to be discovered and shared.
The museum consists of ten heritage buildings, communities in the former townships of Cornwall and Osnabruck, which were dismantled and then flooded in July 1958 for the St. Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Electric project being implemented. The Lost Villages Historical Society. Long Sault, Ontario
our history was changed forever when the Lost Villages were submerged in 1958:
Ancient lands of the Mohawk People—obliterated.
Locales where United Empire Loyalists forged a new future—lost.
Fertile farmland, abundant orchards, old growth forests—drowned.
An 1813 battlefield, where the Battle of Crysler’s Farm was waged—submerged.
The thundering and once-famous Long Sault Rapids—silenced.
Loved ones at rest in their graves, including my grandmother’s “mama,” whom she lost to tuberculosis at age 14—never to be visited again.
