Tanyss Bell at Cransley

Cransley is named in honour of the Bell family farm in Scotland - the home of Tanyss' father and grandparents

A Walk to Cransley and the end of the lake

Looking south towards Craven and the secluded lake

Cransley view east towards Valeport Marsh

Enjoying Last Mountain Lake

Writing about Saskatchewan countryside and the Construction Industry runs in our Family

W H Phillips & Sons - Regina Contractor
Clients often ask how we got into the business of advising companies on how to manage their teams. I always say that the building and construction business must be in our blood. My grandfather, Whitman (1886 - 1969) was a general contractor in Regina and met his future wife while building the Blue Bird Cafe at Regina Beach. He ran W H Phillips and Sons and even had my Dad, and two uncles working with him for a while. One of those uncles was Wilson C Phillips who became a civil engineer and built many grain elevators, schools and homes throughout Western Canada.

"And as I pondered, my mind raced back to other springs in other places across this broad country to recall for a moment the rejoicing of their sights and sounds. The first to mind was boyhood on the Prairies with a springtime trip to the farm behind the barn on an uncle's place near Boharm, Sask. I heard the first call of the meadow lark....it was there I learned to mimic the lark's call which I still remember sounds something like,
I was here a year ago."
Bob Phillips - Canadian Press 1957

View north across Last Mountain Lake