For me, photographs are, first and foremost, windows on the past.

On the other side of this one it will always be 1910. The people in the foreground are my grandparents, on vacation in Banff, Alberta. What it was like to live in this lost world we can never really know.

It certainly was a different world before the First World War. Transportation was still mostly horse drawn. People dressed up in hat, tie and bonnet, even for leisurely stroll. See the boardwalks? They needed them, because when it rained the roads were a sea of mud.

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