by thadmin | Aug 11, 2023 | Family
In April of 2021, Gillian Roach, my cousin once-removed (my mother’s first cousin) and daughter to Hester Bruce (née Spriggs) very kindly passed on to me a family photo album of plates of the early Spriggs family (William Manser [6th] and Alice Josephine) in...
by thadmin | Aug 11, 2023 | Family
On the 14th of January, 1985 I photographed my maternal grandfather, William Spriggs (6th William generationally of direct lineage in a row) in the photo studio of The Gateway, the student paper of the University of Alberta. I was rolling my own Plus-X film in those...
by thadmin | Aug 10, 2021 | Family, Historical
(1870s to...
by thadmin | Jul 29, 2021 | Family
Eg Heiter Anna Knud's Dottir - 2002 by A. Kåre Hellum https://www.hellum.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Eg-Heiter-Anna-Knuds-dottir.mp3 Kjerringa - 2002 by A. Kåre Hellum https://www.hellum.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Kjerringa.mp3 Per Spelmann - 2002...
by thadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | Travel
Travel work Travel-01 Travel-02 Travel-03 Travel-04 Travel-05 Travel-06 Travel-07 Travel-08 Travel-09 Travel-10 Travel-11 Travel-12 Travel-13 Travel-14 Travel-15 Travel-16 Travel-17 Travel-18 Travel-19 Travel-20 Travel-21 Travel-22 Travel-23 Travel-24 Travel-25...
by thadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | Beauty, Work
Architecture work Architecture-01 Architecture-02 Architecture-03 Architecture-05 Architecture-06 Architecture-07 Architecture-08 Architecture-09 Architecture-10 Architecture-11 Architecture-12 Architecture-13 Architecture-14 Architecture-15 Architecture-16...
by thadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | Art, Beauty
Studio work Studio-01 Studio-02 Studio-03 Studio-04 Studio-05 Studio-06 Studio-07 Studio-08 Studio-09 Studio-10 Studio-11 Studio-12 Studio-13 Studio-14 Studio-15 Studio-16 Studio-17 Studio-18 Studio-19 Studio-20 Studio-21...
by thadmin | Aug 8, 2020 | Family, Historical, Nature
These are a loose selection of images shot by my father in the years before he came to Canada (which was in 1955) and in the few years after his arrival. They are not in chronological order, although they should be. He worked as a ‘timber cruiser’ in the...
by thadmin | Aug 2, 2020 | Family
These movie stills were culled from 2+ hours of 8mm footage captured from VHS transfer (kindly supplied by Kristin Midelfort). The date range seems to be 1946 (or earlier?) through 1952 or perhaps 1953. Sarah Seastone Margarita Hande Midelfort Hans Christian Ulrik...
by thadmin | Jul 22, 2020 | Nature, Travel
Five days along the north shore of Lake Superior; at Lake Superior , Wakimi and Killarney Provincial...
