top) plastic flowers forever. it seems like most people in southern saskatchewan took interior decorating classes from my grandmother. this for sure transfers into memorials, but just in case weather ever tried to mess things up, we put a pickle jar on it. pickle jar or something for salt pork.

middle) the reason i went to this grave yard. coal miners didn't get mad love in saskatchewan. most miners actually were forced into mining camps, and essentially treated as slaves. everything equipment-wise was deducted off of their pay (going as far as the fuel used in their mining helmets). the companies controlled where the miners and their families shopped, to keep money going back into company owned stores. dudes had enough and threw an uprising. RCMP handled it, rough history, but good to know.

this tombstone is actually pretty controversial, and actually the wording is to this day frequently changed from "murdered" to "killed". i am happy i caught it reading "murdered".

bottom) this coal miner seems happy though.