CANADIAN PROPERY

 In July of 2002 I made a trip to Alberta, Canada at the request of my brother, to look at property that had been passed down in the family.   It was 80 acres of undeveloped land north of Stony Plain, which is west of Edmonton.    The property is covered in black spruce trees, grass land that can be utilized as pasture and a creek fowling through the south eastern corner.   The picture is looking west along the southern boundary of the property.

The rumor is that our grandfather Burke won it in a poker game, which was originally 160 acres, but at some point he sold the north 80 acres of the property.   There was no road to the property, only a county easement bordering the northside and eastside of the property.   Land owners must pay the county to construct roads to their property.  I was able to walk in from the end of the existing county road on the north end.   When my mother passed away in 1994 the property was passed down to my brother, since he was the executor of her estate and property outside of California could not be included in her living trust.   My brother pays the property taxes and still owns the property.