Category: Boler!

One weekend, two completely different towns, two separate provinces, lots of distance between and two totally different little fibreglass trailers spotted out in the wild. First, it’s a rather uncommon Beachcomber seen down some side street in East Coulee Alberta, out in the scenic Badlands of the Red Deer River...

It’s three veterans of many miles keeping company. Over there it’s a thirty year old Lincoln Town Car, a big old land yacht if there ever was one, with this example standing out account its fantastic condition. Across the road it’s a Triumph Spitfire, a couple decades the elder, with...

Sometimes just going out for a walk will reward the dedicated and vigilant Boler Spotter with some new discoveries. Case in point here, two little trailers, one a thirteen foot Boler and the other a plain old Trillium seen while the Team, on foot, headed to a Calgary Street Festival...

The entire Kootenays of British Columbia are home to disproportionately high number of Bolers. You can’t swing a dead cat, to quote that overused adage, without hitting one of these trailers. Just driving about and you’re sure to spot an example or two…or sometimes even more (six in about an...

It’s the Doublemint Twins, a 1979 Boler (13 foot model) and the rig towing it, and all painted up the same minty green, a 1962 Chevrolet Pickup. These two roam the land appearing at campgrounds and car shows. Here we found them at an event in their homebase town of...

We’re always wandering about, be it here in our own city or anywhere we happen to be. It’s just what we do. And one little perk of doing this is that inevitably, and I mean it’s almost guaranteed, we’ll stumble across a Boler. Or maybe two. They’re out there, and...

We’re at “The Forks” in Winnipeg, a former rail yard now a large multi-purpose outdoor and recreation themed venue. There’s farmer’s markets, museums, historic sites, biking paths and on, with many unique and interesting events held throughout the year. Looks like a fun place. And it’s ours to explore while...

Some business finds us in the tiny community of Enchant Alberta, a dot on the map type place out there on the endless Alberta Plains, no where close to a major population base. Post lunch at the town’s only eatery, the most satisfyingly bowl of Wor Wonton Soup ever, we...

One amazing weekend…and seems so long ago now. We’re in Dinosaur Provincial Park in late May 2018, and we’re here to take in anything and everything it has to offer. Out there along the Red Deer River near the town of Brooks we pay this most special place a visit,...

We’ve always hope that one day we’d be able to shoot Boler out there in the wild under the stars. Picture it, the trailer’s softly lit up inside, a roaring fire out front, people gathered round chatting and socializing and overhead, the big dipper, maybe auroras and other celestial wonders....

Playing catch up here. This post wraps up 2017 and takes in the last of the Bolers and other little fibreglass trailers Team BIGDoer chronicled staring late summer and into fall and winter of that year. There’s a nice assortment here, random finds mostly, captured as we explored our wonderful...

It’s our own personal slice of heaven just outside Calgary. Where we’re standing, a firm, Team Trillium, manufactures those little Trillium Trailers you might see out there on the highway or in some campground. In production since like forever, they’re officially called Outback Trilliums today. And besides producing them new,...

Presenting all the Bolers, and other makes of small fibreglass trailers, including our very first Armadillo (a real cutie), that we photographed during the summer of 2017. Rather than post these one at at time as we’ve been mostly doing, which clearly isn’t working given the backlog, we’ll lump them...

We’re running a tad behind (understatement of the year) in showing off our Boler finds. Heck, we’re still posting ones we photographed in 2016! It’s time to play catch up and for the next while we’ll generally put multiples in each article, instead of one at a time, until that...

We’re cruising down Deerfoot Trail, quite often, (and not always jokingly) referred to as Calgary’s answer to the Indianapolis Speedway…and what’s that we see ahead? Up there, same lane, having just merged in, a little Boler Trailer, dead ahead! At a “leisurely” hundred and twenty clicks, ten over the limit,...

Longview Alberta is the gateway to Kananaskis. A sign as you enter town even says so! Not all that far away, a bit to the west, are the southern reaches of that vast recreational area, a most scenic place and a hiker’s paradise. Lots and lots of trails out there...

As it sometimes happens we stumble across a random Boler Trailer parked in or around someone’s property when out for a stroll. There’s a fair number of them here in Calgary – dozens and dozens that we know of, and many more, no doubt, we’ve yet to be introduced to....

We walk. A lot. Our neighbourhood’s a good-sized one, and sometimes we just step out, point ourselves in some random direction and start exploring (it makes the day better). Even after all these years, there’s still a fair number of streets we’ve never been down. And what happens when you...

We only need explore our own neighbourhood to find Boler trailers. There’s a couple we know of, one of which even shows up on our very street a couple times each summer. They come to us! And from time to time, while out for a walk, we find new ones....

There we were enjoying ourselves, wandering about Nelson BC in the summer of 2016, and we find this. It’s a little fibreglass trailer, something Boler-like for sure, but what make is it? Thought is might be a Beachcomber, but no…a Trillium Jubilee, no again (both are pretty uncommon models). Scan...

Travelling across the west, as we do, we encounter our share of little fibreglass trailers. We might see them on the highway, in camp grounds we pass, parked here or there, at gas stations…they can turn up anytime, anywhere. Or so it seems. Here’s one, a Trillium, the most common...

Well lookie here, right in front us of on the highway and headed in the same direction, a cute little Boler. Another added to the list. That was easy! The location is Yahk British Columbia (“We’ve bin to Yahk ‘n’ back”), right as you enter town after crossing the Moyie....

Proof that Boler-radar, that uncanny sense, something akin to the “force” that tells one a Boler is in the area even if unseen or mostly so, is strong stuff folks. Take in this one, a Boler well set back from our position, so far a 500mm lens did little compress...

We walk. A lot. When the urge hits us, we pick a random spot somewhere in Calgary, or in some small town close by, point ourselves in whatever direction, put boots to pavement and just go. Take this street, take that street, follow this path or that, the direction matters...

This here is a scared place folks. The building seen in back of Connie, home to a furniture store, was long ago a factory where Boler Trailers were produced. Yes, in this very building, just off 16th Avenue Northeast Calgary (visible from the “Trans-Canada”), they pumped out those little egg-shaped...

Here, in some random back alley, in some random Calgary neighbourhood, March of 2016, it’s a Boler for us to discover. It’s a thirteen foot model, looking a little ragged and sitting in front it’s a dirty old toilet. There’s nothing more photogenic than that! Bolers were made in a...

As it often plays out…we’re cruising down some highway, city street, back road to somewhere and out of the corner of our eye we glimpse a Boler. We’re getting damn good at it too! Sometimes they might be out in the open, easily seen, but more often than not, they’re...

It’s under wraps for reasons unknown, a strange Boler cocoon – will a butterfly emerge? But we can guess what’s going on here…mostly likely it’s leaking windows. It happens, a common problem in fact, old gaskets rotting out and cracking, allowing moisture in. They’re probably original, so darn old. It’s...

It’s that close to being a guarantee, a rock-solid one at that. That’s how confident we are. When driving down the streets of near any random town of any reasonable size out west here, there’s more than a good chance one will come across a Boler. It happens all the...