Head down any secondary highway in southern Alberta and chances are you'll run into a ghost town. While the province is best known today for it's booming energy industry, there was a time when much of western Canada relied on Alberta coal, not crude. plaque where the town used to stand is the sole reminder of a town that once existed. Source. Alexo was built as a coal mining town, the Alexo mine operated from 1920 to 1955. Alexo was home to a hotel, a cookhouse, a bunkhouse, a store, and 30 cottages.
A shape is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, texture, or material composition. Psychologists have theorized that humans mentally break down images into simple geometric shapes called geons.
1. a large convex molding, semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest member of the base of a column, directly above the plinth. 2. a. a doughnut-shaped surface generated by the revolution of a conic, esp. a circle, about an exterior line lying in its plane. b. the solid enclosed by such a surface. 3. Bot. the receptacle of a flower. 4. Anat. a rounded ridge; a protuberant part.