The one honest thing about Alberta I could say atm, is Alberta has jobs coming out of it's ass right now, and high paying jobs too. But it's because you gotta pay extra to make people live in Alberta
I was talking to someone who just graduated with an engineering degree, and she said that she was moving out to Alberta to work for an oil company. I asked her if she was going to Fort McMurray, and she said that she would be living "quite a bit north of there".
After this conversation I spent some time studying maps, but my question remains: where could one possibly live that's north of Fort McMurray?
people kept asking me if Canada day was the day we got our independence, and who we kicked out, the americans or the british
i just did a foot shuffle and said it was our birthday
Alberta is obviously the most important part of Canada, as that is where Calgary is located.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada is where Bret Hart is from.
Bret Hart is the patron saint of Canada, as well as the Prime Minister.
I think.
Whether he's the Prime Minister, Burgomeister, or whatever you people call the leader of your "nation", the point stands that he is the most important thing to come out of Canada.
I was talking to someone who just graduated with an engineering degree, and she said that she was moving out to Alberta to work for an oil company. I asked her if she was going to Fort McMurray, and she said that she would be living "quite a bit north of there".
After this conversation I spent some time studying maps, but my question remains: where could one possibly live that's north of Fort McMurray?
She could be commuting for off-shore work in NWT or elsewhere doing x-weeks on/x-weeks off and still living in Alberta when off. My dad did that when I was a kid in Alaska. He commuted to Prudhoe Bay for one-week stints while the family lived in Anchorage.
It's pretty common practice for skilled and educated work in remote areas because some places you simply can't pay someone enough to get them to live there full time.
I was talking to someone who just graduated with an engineering degree, and she said that she was moving out to Alberta to work for an oil company. I asked her if she was going to Fort McMurray, and she said that she would be living "quite a bit north of there".
After this conversation I spent some time studying maps, but my question remains: where could one possibly live that's north of Fort McMurray?
Fort McKay is habitable, but is mostly a reference point to different plant sites North of the city by 60-100 km or so. In the middle of the province there's Red Earth and Zama that have plenty of oilfield-related industry jobs, and on the east side there's High Level and Rainbow Lake.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Mmmmm....toasty.
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so this is how it is
everyone is nice until the birthday is over and then the knives come out
Spent my Canada indoors playing video games with my wife. Edmonton was 30 degrees, and being normally acclimated to cold weather we couldn't deal with the heat.
For all its warts, I still love living here - its afforded me and my lovely a comfortable lifestyle, both of us good careers and supported both of our parents from the time they came here until their retirement. My Grandfather (RIP, *sniffle*) helped build this province. In the 40's and 50's he commuted from Rimbey to just south of Fort McMurray to work in the lumber mill for the winter, to get paid in goods to build the family homestead. Then, once the home was built, he'd farm during the daylight hours and work the local drilling AND service rigs that were peppering the neighboring quarters. He helped build the railway from the Cold Lake area to Fort Mac, too.
His crowning achievement - being Santa Claus from 1952 or so until 2003 when he had to back off for health reasons for the entire county AND neighboring county (covered Rimbey, Eckville, Leslieville, Rocky Mountain House and all the in-between). He'd start at 9 or so Christmas Eve and hit the community halls in full gear, meeting the parents outside to get the name of the kids and their gifts and then ring his handbell and bellow out the "Ho Ho Ho" as his massive 6 foot 3 240 pound frame came in through the front door and made the kids' year. Then, on Christmas day he'd start at 6am (with only a few hours sleep), he'd go to individual homes and repeat the process until 10 at night. He never missed a year.
He'd have been 85 this year. I'm so grateful that I got to spend his last birthday with him, just shooting the shit at the farm house and learning how huge the man was, in his own humble recollection. He never saw what he did as special, but I would venture a guess that every kid in 3 counties sat on his knee at Christmas time at some point in their life until the 90's when he slowed down a bit. Love you Grandad, and miss you.
Stuff like this makes Canada, our provinces and towns just awesome.
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After this conversation I spent some time studying maps, but my question remains: where could one possibly live that's north of Fort McMurray?
No.
No i would never mean that.
Especially about Alberta. Or as we call it "The Texas of The North"
So I guess the analogy for our American friends is... Alberta is our Canada..
So yeah, that's a fair analogy
we just give them a hard time
alberta is
well
alberta
people kept asking me if Canada day was the day we got our independence, and who we kicked out, the americans or the british
i just did a foot shuffle and said it was our birthday
Well, not edmonton
Yes?
YES???
Truth. I live here and it blows. We had good fireworks, though.
Even realer talk, y'all can go to hell.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I'll count them as a city when they get a hockey team HO HO HO HO HO
I will accept Nova Scotia as a happy tie for #1
and well you are my country
Calgary, Alberta, Canada is where Bret Hart is from.
Bret Hart is the patron saint of Canada, as well as the Prime Minister.
I think.
Whether he's the Prime Minister, Burgomeister, or whatever you people call the leader of your "nation", the point stands that he is the most important thing to come out of Canada.
i think alberta is,
She could be commuting for off-shore work in NWT or elsewhere doing x-weeks on/x-weeks off and still living in Alberta when off. My dad did that when I was a kid in Alaska. He commuted to Prudhoe Bay for one-week stints while the family lived in Anchorage.
It's pretty common practice for skilled and educated work in remote areas because some places you simply can't pay someone enough to get them to live there full time.
no. fall into a hole.
Fixed
yeah, Nova Scotia is pretty great
Halifax is a big enough city that there's stuff to do, but small enough that I could actually afford a house 20 minutes from downtown
and god damn do we have some beautiful scenery in this province
Fort McKay is habitable, but is mostly a reference point to different plant sites North of the city by 60-100 km or so. In the middle of the province there's Red Earth and Zama that have plenty of oilfield-related industry jobs, and on the east side there's High Level and Rainbow Lake.
Mmmmm....toasty.
everyone is nice until the birthday is over and then the knives come out
Spent my Canada indoors playing video games with my wife. Edmonton was 30 degrees, and being normally acclimated to cold weather we couldn't deal with the heat.
For all its warts, I still love living here - its afforded me and my lovely a comfortable lifestyle, both of us good careers and supported both of our parents from the time they came here until their retirement. My Grandfather (RIP, *sniffle*) helped build this province. In the 40's and 50's he commuted from Rimbey to just south of Fort McMurray to work in the lumber mill for the winter, to get paid in goods to build the family homestead. Then, once the home was built, he'd farm during the daylight hours and work the local drilling AND service rigs that were peppering the neighboring quarters. He helped build the railway from the Cold Lake area to Fort Mac, too.
His crowning achievement - being Santa Claus from 1952 or so until 2003 when he had to back off for health reasons for the entire county AND neighboring county (covered Rimbey, Eckville, Leslieville, Rocky Mountain House and all the in-between). He'd start at 9 or so Christmas Eve and hit the community halls in full gear, meeting the parents outside to get the name of the kids and their gifts and then ring his handbell and bellow out the "Ho Ho Ho" as his massive 6 foot 3 240 pound frame came in through the front door and made the kids' year. Then, on Christmas day he'd start at 6am (with only a few hours sleep), he'd go to individual homes and repeat the process until 10 at night. He never missed a year.
He'd have been 85 this year. I'm so grateful that I got to spend his last birthday with him, just shooting the shit at the farm house and learning how huge the man was, in his own humble recollection. He never saw what he did as special, but I would venture a guess that every kid in 3 counties sat on his knee at Christmas time at some point in their life until the 90's when he slowed down a bit. Love you Grandad, and miss you.
Stuff like this makes Canada, our provinces and towns just awesome.
Mmmmm....toasty.