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Double Rainbow Over Prairie Fields in Rumsey, Alberta, Canada

A vivid double rainbow stretches across a dramatic prairie sky over green farmland near Rumsey, Alberta, Canada.

Captured in August 2025 during a passing storm, the dark clouds created strong contrast against the fields and distant canola.

This was a welcome sight for my daughter and I as we drove through the prairies.

Eight years ago today, the Humboldt Broncos, a Canadian junior "A" ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan were on their way into game 5 of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League semi-finals.

The Broncos were trailing in the series against the Nipawin Hawks by 3–1 , they were on their way to even things out.

At about 5pm on April 6th, the Broncos bus, with 29 people on board, including players, coaches and staff was heading north on highway 35, towards the 335 intersection.

This intersection has a large stop sign with flashing red lights for vehicles traveling East and West on highway 335, those driving through North and South on 35 have the right of way to proceed through the intersection.

A driver in a semi-trailer truck was driving west on 335, and he failed to stop for the stop sign.

It this very same time, the Broncos bus, having the right of way, was proceeding north and collided directly into the transport truck.

As a result of this:

16 people were killed

13 others were injured, many seriously

The Humboldt Broncos accident became one of the deadliest road crashes in Canadian history

Lost in this tragedy were:

Players

• Logan Schatz
• Jaxon Joseph
• Adam Herold
• Logan Hunter
• Conner Lukan
• Evan Thomas
• Stephen Wack
• Logan Boulet
• Layne Matechuk
• Parker Tobin

Staff and team personnel

• Darcy Haugan, Head Coach
• Mark Cross, Assistant Coach
• Dayna Brons, Athletic Therapist
• Brody Hinz, Statistician
• Tyler Bieber, Radio Broadcaster
• Glen Doerksen, Bus Driver

Gone, but never forgotten.

I was in Saskatchewan in May of 2023, and my travels would take me through Armley, Saskatchewan. Timing got me to the site just as the sun was setting over the memorial that now stands at the intersection.

Over the years, I have visited some heavy places where terrible things have happened, but very few can compare to the weight one feels at this site.

I have no personal connection to this story, but I wanted to visit and pay my respects as I passed through.

The one thing that stood out for me though, and that I hope others, especially friends, family and loved ones of the victims, are the two sweet dogs who live across the street.

As soon as I parked my car, two large and loveable dogs ran over to join me. `One was very shy and kept it's distance, but the other one warmed up to me, approached me for some snuggles and just sat with me while I took in the heaviness of this place.

All I could think about was how much visitors must love this, when they come to mourn and remember, and this sweet old dog keeps them company and provides some comfort to them!

Has anyone here been to the memorial, and did you have the same experience as me?

The YMCA of Niagara in St. Catharines, known as the Walker Family YMCA, opened in the mid-1990s as a major community fitness and recreation hub. After decades of use, it shut down permanently on May 31, 2022, following years of declining membership, rising maintenance costs, and financial strain worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic

The YMCA of Niagara in St. Catharines, known as the Walker Family YMCA, opened in the mid-1990s as a major community fitness and recreation hub. After decades of use, it shut down permanently on May 31, 2022, following years of declining membership, rising maintenance costs, and financial strain worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic

An entire neighborhood was erased beside Marineland… and almost nobody talks about it.

Most people have no idea this place even existed.

Right beside Marineland, there used to be a trailer park called Green Oaks. Around 40–50 families lived there, and a lot of them had been there for decades.

This wasn’t some short-term setup. These were permanent homes. People raised families there. It was a real, tight little community.

Then Marineland bought the land in the early 2000s.

Nothing really happened at first, so people just kept living their lives. But in 2009, residents were told they had about 18 months to leave.

Sounds like a lot of time, but most of those homes couldn’t actually be moved. They were too old or too expensive to relocate. So for a lot of people, it wasn’t “move somewhere else”, it was just losing their home completely.

Some people ended up in really bad situations financially.

And during all of this, one resident died by suicide around the time they were being forced out.

That part gets talked about a lot, and sometimes exaggerated, but the fact is, this situation hit people hard.

By around 2010, the entire place was gone.

What makes it even weirder is that the land didn’t really turn into anything after. It just sat there for years.

So a whole community got erased… and nothing ever replaced it.

If you’ve ever been to Niagara Falls, you’ve probably driven right past where it used to be without even knowing it.