In my family's basement hangs a print depicting Newfoundland resettlement. The image is of a house floating across a bay to its new home - a deliberate government action to encourage urbanization. I have long thought about the logistics of floating a house across a body of water and the inevitable stress of wondering whether it would make it to its final destination in top form. While I was walking with Greg this afternoon along Whyte Avenue, I saw an event that drew my mind back to that painting and the controversial resettlement program - a house was sitting right in the middle of the street. Naturally, we took a detour down that side street into Strathcona to check out what was occurring.
The house had been removed from its foundation without even cleaning out the contents of the basement!
The house now sat on the back of a trailer ready to move to its new home.
The house was being prepared to travel down this road two blocks to its new home.
We plan to check back here in a week or so to see how the house has settled on its new foundation.
The question that remains - why would someone move a house two blocks? I cannot help but be impressed by the 'reusing' going on in this situation.
An Update from the Edmonton Journal on February 1: The trailer hauling the house broke on Friday and the movers cannot obtain another permit to move until Tuesday. Until then, the house remains mid-street.
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