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Another beauty found on the streets of Fort McLeod during the ride-along with Darren.

*Note: Not the original headlamps.

The streets of Fort McLeod are filled with restored historic buildings. Some are in better shape than others, but ya, gotta like this sign!;-)

More from the roadtrip with Darren.

The Queen's Hotel has a colourful past.

In 1886, Colin Genge, a retired constable and a first-rate carpenter, remodeled the inside of the Bates and Genge double residence and created the Queen’s Hotel across from the Macleod Hotel. Ten years later Harry Stedman bought the Queen’s and in 1903 built the sandstone structure we see today on the corner of Colonel Macleod Boulevard (Main Street) and Haultain (2nd) Avenue.

In 1906, the Macleod Gazette described the Queen's as one of the finest hotels in Western Canada.

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I found this on the streets of Ft. McLeod Alberta. Right away I thought about one of my favourite K-9's!

I got an invite to ride along with the retro-renaissance-rebel who was hauling 91,000 lbs. of steel to Lethbridge. It was an early start with him picking me up just after 4am. By the time he ran the final checks on his rig, and fueled up, we were on the road by 5:30. A pretty uneventful ride until we hit the southern outskirts of Calgary. It was there we got the signal from another driver that we had a flat. Hard for us to tell seeing as there were 29 other tires in perfect condition.

After we pulled over, and set up the reflective triangles, and he put in a call to his dispatcher. We soon found out it'd be 2-3hrs wait time before roadside assistance would be able to make it. Climbing the hill at the side of the highway to get the lay of the land, we found nothing but suberia for as far as the eye could see. Basically we were stuck in the truck waiting for Kal-Tire.

Two hours, and fifteen minutes later, the familiar truck pulled up behind us. The guy knew his stuff, and had us up, and running a half hour later.

He was behind schedule, but we managed to make the best of it. It did put a damper on the picture taking though. I managed to get some shots of the truck, and we did stop (briefly) in Ft. McLeod to snap some shots.