No Electricity, No Phones, No Internet, Unpaved Road in the Sticks

As I travel the highways and byways, and come upon houses built at the turn of the last century, I often wonder what the landscape looked like. I found a partial answer.

I have this amazing slide in my digital archives. It is a colour photographic slide, encased in glass and metal that I digitized. It is of a country road in Quebec in the early 1930's. There is no electricity poles, telephone poles, or pave roads connecting the farms. Yet by sheer dint of hard work, the fields are cleared and cultivated on the hills. Farm homes are nestled in the valley and a ribbon of a dirt road connects them all. Amazing.

Please ask for permission if you take a copy of this slide. It is going to be my next painting.