Nope, I wasn't kidding.
The resemblence is spot-on.
Both houses have the same steeply gabled roof lines (We re-roofed that house ourselves in 2002 and I nearly broke my neck in the process - I'm a klutz). I'm not sure what the style is called.
There are some small differences - my old house is bigger I believe, than the Alberta ranch house, and the Alberta ranch house does not look to have a cellar.
That house is "still in the family", so to speak. My dear friend Kathy still owns it. The land was homesteaded by her father Fred Zimmerman in 1930 (the Zimmerman name is legion in the Portland Oregon area lexicon - a family name associated with logging concerns which goes back 10 generations - look up "Zimmerman's 12-mile" in Google). The house sits on a pristine 129 acres of heavily forested 2nd growth Douglas fir up in the Oregon coast range about halfway between Portland and Tillamook. It's very remote. But that is one of the things I loved about it.
Needless to say, I have a very personal reason for wating to see that ranch house preserved.