The day before yesterday, this blog went to Esk in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is a place that most Canadians have never heard of, far from anywhere and even less significant than it used to be. It is located in pancake-flat prairie land. There you can see for miles.
I neglected to mention that a branch of the Canadian Pacific railroad passes right through Esk but these days the trains never stop. This track was once vital in opening up central Canada and transporting grain as well as mineral products.
During my investigations about Esk, I came across two amateur videos about the settlement. In the first one, the laidback narrator is often battling with the wind. At one point, he refers to the farming families that established themselves there or thereabouts. One of the families he mentions is the Kleins - later to become the Klines...
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