Author: Chris Doering

Today we’ll be looking at Pella Mennonite Church found along a dusty Saskatchewan backroad. It’s just over a century old and for more than half that time has stood abandoned. During an oddly warm and snow-free March of 2021, we pay this modest little building a visit and get to...

On arriving point yourself in a direction of the compass – any will do. No matter, what will lay before is the never ending Saskatchewan Plains, field after field and that’s about it. There’s a farm here and many clicks distance, another there, some dusty old roads and somewhere in...

You can still find many former one room schools out on the vast Canadian Plains. Surviving for any number of reasons, some were simply abandoned but left standing where as others were reused (and sometimes moved) to serve as farm out buildings or granaries. A few have been fixed up...

They may look like a series of little lakes (maybe do some fishing, eh?) but instead are former coal mine workings that filled with water after the operation closed. These many pits, just outside the little town of Tofield Alberta date back to the 1910s-’50s period and remind us just...

We had ten minutes to kill in little Andrew Alberta, before a tight schedule had us back on the road. There’s certainly more to see in the community than the time allowed us, but you take what you can get. I’m sure we’ll be back to take a more immersive...

There’s something magic about wandering a small town come evening and on road trips we do it every chance we get. Late in the day, the community’s charm and character is at its best and it’s a peaceful way to wind down. We lead such busy lives – go-go-go –...

Until recently we didn’t pay much attention to old water towers. Sure, there’s lots out there and we’ve even casually photographed a few, but always preoccupied with other things seemed to look right past the majority. Then it happened, a click moment (thanks Johnnie) and now they’re another obsession here...

The inner-city community of (East) Victoria Park in Calgary, just north of the Stampede Grounds, has literally been wiped off the map. Once a working-class neighbourhood, and within sight of downtown, now there’s empty parking lots with nothing going on. Well, that’s unless there’s an event at the Dome or...

It’s only taken us about two years to post this. Say it with me…dear Lord, they’re slow! Sometimes there’s so much on the go at BIGDoer.com that a huge backlog builds and so this glacial pace is not all that odd. A week or two before shooting this piece, way...