Onarc

Where’s this now? Onarch? Wait, no, it’s Onarc. Moving about a bit…ohhhh, Monarch…now we get it. Guess we should open our eyes more. Here’s a little village in Alberta, home a couple hundred folks, just a bit west of Lethbridge. At one time the highway ran right through the place, but on being bypassed, the community’s a quiet backwater now. The only sound heard, outside the occasional barking pooch, was the horn of a passing train. But soon it’s gone and the silence returns.

And over there, the tallest thing in town. We’ll it had some competition in the old days – long gone now, there used to some grain elevators over by the tracks. So this is Monarch’s water tower. It’s said to have been brought in here from the town of Taber (east of Lethbridge) in around 1984. From what we can find it stood in that earlier community at least since the 1940s. Got to wonder what one of these costs used?

One peaceful night, the stars are out and there we are standing in the dark snapping photos of the thing, much to the amusement of an old couple watching us from their yard. It looked as though they thought us crazy. That’s badge we wear often…so we smiled and waved and they ran inside.

For railway use…
Canadian Pacific Railway octagonal water tower.

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Date of adventure: Oct, 2018.
Location: Monarch, AB.

In Onarch…

…Or is that Onarc?