I heard the suspicious part and it's easy to say that, but it was a very old building, renovated many times over the years and I'm sure a lot of the renos were make do, rather than do it right. Apparently, the Mustard Seed was going to tear it down and re-build anyway. Maybe, Paul Brand will kick in another million bucks. The nearest fire department is the volunteer service in Sundre and by the time taken to get there, there would have been little left.
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"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
I stayed at the lodge a few times and ate more than a few meals there. When flying wildlife surveys we would sometimes land near by and walk into the lodge for lunch.
Hope they rebuild it but the history and atmosphere is gone.
That place was up for sale a while back with no buyers , l think in the right hands it could be a gold mine , maybe build a few cabins and a pool , and ADVERTISE , and hire a good chinese cook.
Man I will miss that old dump only reason I ever stopped was to look at the black board with the game count and buy some stale chips YaHa just wont be the same
Some one lit the lodge on fire at 5 am.
they have found the person that did it.
right now i heard they are up and running again they got temporary building up.
they are planing the new lodge right now. its going to take about 2 years. its going to be huge. i heard they are going to take in campers, oil poeple and other people to ask them what they want in the new lodge.
On July 20, 2008 my brother and I and a friend hiked Eagle Mtn in YHT. We arrived at Mountain Aire Lodge around 530 pm that afternoon and were thinking of having supper there like we had many times before when Holmes owned it. Three long haired fellows come out to the till to take our order and we decided to get a dusty bag of chips and a can of pop and keep truckin'. There was no one else in the lodge at the time..we heard 2 days later that it burned down that night....really sad that the history is gone. Did they ever find out the cause?
Mountain Aire Lodge burned to the ground
The nearest fire department is the volunteer service in Sundre and by the time taken to get there, there would have been little left.
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