Old Monastery
Usually when I think of a monastery I think of caves in the mountains of Greece with ancient stone rooms or deep in the woods As they like it to peaceful. You may be as surprised as I was to discover that there are monasteries in the wilderness of Alberta. That is the subject of today’s blog. First you should know that I phoned ahead to obtain permission to visit and photograph this site. Not only did I receive permission to enter their land, but fellow provided me with lots of interesting stories and history of the area. He was a caretaker of the area but not himself a monk. However he knows the monk who lives nearby and knew a lot of the stories of his adventures. Unfortunately I didn’t get to meet the monk but it would be really neat to meet him to hear his stories first hand. The local homesteaders knew the road past the monastery as “Monks Road”. The Monks would use that road to travel by a team of horses and wagon to Vegreville and Bellis. I