HISTORY AND MEN OF VISION

It seems there are still a few key players throughout the world that have visions of greatness and often make our world a more interesting place.
Mem and Women who seem to understand how the present better translates into the future. Men and Women who get into politics, large corporations, positions of power and ironic, their
vision later grips our own vision of what the future should or could be. We cannot forget the likes of
Howard Hughes, Steve Jobs, Charles Hays, and many many others who carved a special niche of greatness in history. When the world lost Charles
Melvin Hays with the sinking of the Titanic, another visionary was lost, his dreams of the Grand
Trunk Railroad and the Alberta Connection,  gone.
Hays even expressed his concern of the dangers involved with everything moving faster.

I was in Carstairs, Alberta years ago selling some aerial photographs I had taken in that area and came across an old gentleman who told me how the late Howard Hughes would on occasion fly into
the little landing strip near Carstairs.

History also tells us about the late Al Capone and his connection to the famous tunnels in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

History offers us a few clues as to how the past might lead us to the future, with some little hiccups along the way, progress is not always smooth and easy.

There has been talk for years and years about a bullet train moving north and south in Alberta but
regulation and perhaps the need for a true visionary
to make that happen - has not yet come forward.

Every day somewhere, a new product is created, or an old product with a new twist, an idea for the
transportation of goods and services, methods and ways to get the oil to the coast with ease and without years of study and review...and its all possible when we have folks who, with perception and understanding, leave a legacy of being a
true visionary....

And history is a good place to turn for some clues
to the future...