Mystery Picture 091010

Today's mystery picture is not about the who or the where. We know it is Grandma with Chief Mountain in the background. Although Chief Mountain is in Montana, it is just a few miles from the Canadian border. This view is from the north side of the mountain, in Canada.

The mystery is when this picture was taken. The place looks very green and the clouds look very heavy, certainly greener and heavier than I would expect southern Alberta to look during a typical summer family reunion. Any guesses on the month and year?

John posted a bunch of pictures on Facebook from a reunion in Alberta this summer. You must be logged into Facebook to see the pictures, but he has about 100 from the reunion (and about 20 more from Glacier Park and Provo). The pictures are a lot of fun to browse, but one stood out to me as reminiscent of Grandma's picture above.

There's Chief Mountain in the background. And, might that be the same wooden fence that Grandma was standing next to? Who knows; they all look the same. But, it provides a nice visual connection between then and now.

I should note that, although I did adjust the colors/contrast slightly from John's original picture (thank you Easy.Filter), this is pretty much what his picture looked like when he posted it. The grass in this picture and the absence of clouds are what I would expect to see in that area in the summer. Thanks, John, for posting the pictures.

For those of us who do not get to the Cardston area much -- I last went with my siblings and Grandma and Grandpa in the early 1980s -- here is a satellite image (thanks, Google) that includes Chief Mountain (marked "A"). Where is the area that Grandpa is from?

If you have any old pictures, programs, flyers, etc. from a family reunion that you would like to contribute to Grandpa's Apple Press, please let me know.

UPDATE

Andrew Bore, who also contributed to a previous post, added some very helpful context to this one.

"Rob, my guess is the picture was taken in the Leavitt or Mountain View area. J.R. and Clara lived there when my grandmother (Aunt Fern) was born. This may have been at a Coombs reunion. The homestead is roughly in the middle of the area marked by the three highways. Leavitt and Mountain View are both on the highway heading west from Cardston. Glenwood, where the Stutz' also had a farm, is near the top of the map."

Thanks for the info, Andrew! If anyone has the addresses or a mapped location for these family farms, send them my way and I will post them.

John produces a slide of this picture that reveals when it was taken, which we discuss at Mystery Picture 091010 - Revisited.