Alequiers: The History of a Homestead

Mike Schintz

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1-55238-092-0
170 pp.
6" x 9"
20 photos/illustrations
Legacies Shared series, No. 8
ISSN 1498-2358

Pioneering History/Biography

About the Book

Alequiers is the story of a one-hundred-year-old log house on the banks of the Highwood River, in Southern Alberta, with particular emphasis on the time that Schintz and his family spent there in mid-century. The book details what little is known about the original settler on the site—Alexander McQueen Weir—and goes on to describe the changes in structure that took place under succeeding occupants, the Royle and Schintz families. The book is also a tribute to the author’s talented parents, both of whom produced outstanding works of art while living and raising a family under conditions reminiscent of earlier, pioneer times. Schintz imparts the flavour of the foothills with vivid and often humorous notes about neighbours, Bar U Riders, and the Stoney people, as well as describing the wildlife that has always contributed to the magic of Alequiers.

Alequiers will draw readers into the orbit of the daily life of a homesteading family who resided in one of Alberta’s most prominent ranching districts with its whimsical and nostalgic journey into a recent, yet distant, past.

“This book provides an opportunity to reflect on the values that accompany development and the dualistic yet dependent character of community and self-reliance … vivid and compelling.”
Brian Rusted, University of Calgary

“It holds you with its eloquent authenticity.”
Maxwell L. Foran, author of the Chalk & the Easel: The Life and Work of Stanford Perrott

About the Author

Mike Schintz is the co-author of Guardians of the Wild: A History of the Warden Service of Canada’s National Parks and was a National Park Warden for thirty-nine years. He is now retired and lives in Black Diamond with his wife, Glennys.

Contents

Prologue

History of Al equiers
1 The Royle Era
2 Picking up the Trail
3 We arrive at Alequiers

Homeste ad Life
4 Runaways and Getaways
5 The War Years
6 Friends and Neighbours
7 The Stoneys

The Artists
8 Dutchman Paints the West
9 Fine Artist, Brave Mother

Beyond Al equiers, and B ack
10 Pathway to the Parks
11 Bullet Proof Rat, and other Stories
12 ’Bye ’Bye, Old Place

Al equiers History Mil estones

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