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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
This is a massive rabbit hole. I knew of the 1924 imagery a whiole back, which was cool enough, but now all of these additional layers? There goes my productivity today.
Things like Baker Park, and the Baker Sanatorium that stood there before. You can see clearly on modern images where the tree lines were, but being able to overlay the old buildings is cool.
Plus seeing what used to be on/near where my house is, my folks' house, my old schools, etc. is so neat.
Mount Royal University / Lincoln Park air base / Currie Barracks is another cool area.
So much to see. I have always enjoyed history and also maps/cartography, so this is so good, yet soooo bad.
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you should try this site, too.
some awesome pictures, maps and blueprints
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/index.html
Peel's Prairie Provinces is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies.
This website contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies, as well as a searchable full-text collection of many of these items. As of Summer 2013, after 10 years worth of additions, Peel contains approximately 7,500 digitized books, over 66,000 newspaper issues (4.8 million articles!), 16,000 postcards, and 1,000 maps