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Photo Friday challenge for February 11, 2005 is Luscious. This photo was taken last summer, just outside the small
hamlet of Seebe, looking down to the Bow river, at the foot of the Rockies about 45 minutes west of Calgary.
An interesting story regarding this place: Seebe was owned by TransAlta Utilities, which is one of Canada's largest
non-regulated power generation and wholesale marketing companies. The company created this hamlet to house its
workers almost 100 years ago. Back in 1909, the hydro plant in Seebe was too far from anywhere and providing
housing was the way TransAlta hoped to attract people to come to work for the company. So the company built
Seebe and owned 680 acres of land in the area.
Last year, the company offered the whole place for sale. The offer included 500 acres, 22 houses, a 17-suite
apartment building, a water treatment plant and sewage lagoon, a one-sheet curling rink, a one-room school house
and a baseball diamond. At the time we took this photo, the hamlet had been already bought by one of the nations
living close by, with the intention to move some of their people to the hamlet. The road to the hamlet was close.
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