McKernan’s Lost Lake
…Bark Ging Wong, in response to “Early Market Gardens in Edmonton” also by Katherine Koller, published in 2021. Katherine Koller ©2016 Works Cited: Broadus, Edmund Kemper. Saturday and Sunday. Toronto:…
Searching ECAMP
The Year of the Alaska Highway: 1942
…and W.R. Morrison. The Alaska Highway in World War II. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma Press, 1992. MacGregor, J.G. Edmonton: A History. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1967. © 2016 Katherine Koller…
The Last Edmonton Coal Mine: Whitemud Creek
…The closure of the Whitemud Creek Coal Mine in 1970 marked the end of underground coal mining in Edmonton. Katherine Koller © 2020 Whitemud Creek Park looking west. Whitemud Drive…
Early Market Gardens in Edmonton
…Edmonton. Katherine Koller © 2021 Vegetable stall at City market square, 1925. Image courtesy of the City of Edmonton Archives, EA-122-66. Works Cited A Century of Gardening in Edmonton. Edmonton:…
An Important Update from the Edmonton City as Museum Project
…Some 2016 highlights: 51 new weekly ECAMP stories from 27 seasoned and emerging writers. ECAMP’s most-viewed stories in 2016? #1: McKernan’s Lost Lake by Katherine Koller #2: There Were No Safety Nets:…
Main Frames, Strikes, and More
…an urge to connect with family and culture. Some of this year’s ECAMP writers. Left to right: Pamela Young, John Vandenbeld, Chris Chang-Yen Phillips, Shayne Giles, Katherine Koller, Renée Englot,…
City as Arboretum
…Local historian and author of Why Grow Here: Essays on Edmonton’s Gardening History, Katherine Chase Merritt estimates that at least fifteen Chinese-run market gardens once dotted the City, including sites…
The Company and the Combination: Collective Bargaining at the River’s Edge
…As related in W.C King and Mary Weekes. “York Boat Brigade” The Beaver Outfit 271.December 1940. Pp 24-26. [3] Hughes, Katherine, Father Lacombe, the black-robe voyageur, (New York, Moffat, Yard…
Laura Lindsay, First Lady of Daytime TV in Alberta from 1955-68
When Sunwapta Broadcasting first produced and aired local television in Edmonton in 1954, CFRN aimed daytime programs at the homemaker audience, which included my mother, doing the work of having…