How Is The Weather

The Owen House in Highlands was built in 1912. In 1914 it became home to the Dominion Meterological Service Office.
Eda Owen moved to Edmonton with her husband Herbert, a retired sea captain, in 1908.
When he was hired as a meteorologist in 1915 they moved into the house.
Soon after Herbert enlisted and went overseas to serve during World War I. He was captured and ended up in a POW Camp where he died.
Eda then took the position permanently. Her day started at 5:40am and she would get readings from 26 instruments located in the front room, backyard and on the roof.
Over 100 stations would send daily reports to her. She in turn would send two daily reports to Toronto.
She remained station manager until 1943 and moved to Calgary in 1944.

[Diana]

Wonderful building and a lovey story of this amazing woman.

[Ingrid]

Nice house and I really enjoy your history lessons! So interesting!

[moni kozi]

Beautiful building. And the narrative is interesting as well

[Issi Bannerman]

Lovely to read the history of this house. Is the house currently lived in? They want to remove those saplings trees from the gutter!

[Mave]

Interesting history

[Wylie]

Interesting story, what a girl!

[Ian George]

Nice shot with a great story attached.

[Valerie Chesney]

My gosh, she was a great lady & this is a lovely home.

[Mags]

Lovely home and history. I love the tree shadow too!

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[Harry J Benson]

Nice looking house and porch. Thanks for its interesting history.

[Bep]

Nice capture, love the history.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

I love the porch.

[Fisher Family]

Another interesting old building with a fascinating story attached!

Ian

[Nina Ganci]

beautiful house and history
is it still in its original use today

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful capture of the building!

[Beryl Lloyd]

Beautiful building and a fantastic woman-- love the story and history !

[carol white]

Lovely capture of an elegant building and interesting narrative

[Korcsog Károly]

Nicely photographed house and thank you for the attached story

[Margaret Brown]

Super home and info

[Granny7(Denise)]

Interesting history

[Pat Knowles]

Lovely to read this history....

[Rosie Kind]

A fine looking property and very interesting facts to accompany your photo

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot. Interresting history.

[Chris Cook]

Another grand old house with an interesting history. I like the shadow of the tree

[Islandgirl]

Nice shadows!

[Kathie]

Interesting story. That's a lot of data to process without an excel spreadsheet. lol

[Tunia McClure]

There is an interesting lift to the edges of the roof at the top that make it different from something I would see around here.

[John Durham]

great house - love the tree shadow

[Lin]

A lovely house and I enjoyed the history

[LManning (Laura)]

A stately building with a great story!

[Kathy]

I like that porch.

[bkb in the city]

@monikozi l trust you enjoyed this one

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@jamibann Yes it is currently being lived in

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@mave Mave I trust you enjoyed this one

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@pusspup Wylie she certainly was a unique individual

[bkb in the city]

@nodrognai Thanks Ian

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@happysnaps Yes Valerie she certainly was

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@marlboromaam Mags glad you enjoyed this one

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@pdulis Thanks Peter

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@hjbenson Harry glad to share this with you

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@gijsje Thanks Bep glad you enjoyed this one

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@mittens Marilyn that is a great feature to the house

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@fishers Ian glad you enjoyed this one

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@ninaganci Nina it just a private residence now

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@photographycrazy Thanks Bill

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@beryl Beryl glad you enjoyed this one

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@carolmw Thanks Carol glad you liked this one

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@kork Glad to share this with you

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@craftymeg Margaret glad you enjoyed this one

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@denful Denise l trust you enjoyed this one

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@happypat Pat glad you enjoyed this one

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@rosiekind Rosie I trust you enjoyed this one

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@pyrrhula Thanks Ferry l trust you enjoyed this one

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@cdcook48 Chris glad you like this one

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@radiogirl Kathy glad you like them

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@kathiecb Kathie you got that right

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@tunia Tunia glad to share this with you

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@jtdurham John glad you enjoyed this one

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@linnypinny Lin glad you enjoyed this

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@ljmanning Laura glad you enjoyed this one

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@randystreat Kathy it certainly is a great feature for the house

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@ludwigsdiana Diana glad you enjoyed this one

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@ingrid01 Ingrid glad to share them with you