We have company! My brother-in-law and his family are here for a few days. Tonight they are meeting some Victoria friends for dinner, so I’ll sneak in a quick post. These photos are from the Moberly Homestead in Jasper National Park, which we visited one evening in the company of the very same brother-in-law. To reach it, you drive up the Snaring River road east of Jasper townsite.

The site was home to a Metis family about 100 years ago. The upper portion of the house was rebuilt using traditional methods, but the lower section is original. Here is some of Ewan Moberly’s handwork.

I love the marks the tools left behind, now weathered by so many summers and winters.

A path behind the cabin leads to the river. The homestead was located at a favourable river crossing, and the Moberly family would assist travellers to move people, goods and animals across the river.

Sam is in the other room dreaming right now. I can here him sleep-barking. Poor guy has had a rough week, but he seems to be on the mend. Gave himself a nice big scrape under the eye by running at full tilt into a set of high-quality wooden blinds. But that’s another story.