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Velva Hueston moved to Edmonton with her mother in the early 1920s, after her father died in the 1918 flu…
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Margaret Chappelle: The artist who saved the MacKinnon Ravine
Margaret Chappelle was an unlikely activist: the only child of wealthy parents, and wife to a successful young doctor, she…
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Dr. Lila Fahlman: The First Muslim Woman Awarded the Order of Canada
Lila Fahlman’s career as an activist began with a riot. It was Canada Day 1935, and the 11-year-old Lila was…
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Margaret Crang: the AOC of #yegcc circa 1933
When Margaret Crang won a seat as an alderman in the 1933 municipal election, she set the record as the…
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The “Grand Lady of the Métis:” Dr. Anne Anderson’s mission to preserve the Cree language
When Dr. Anne Anderson was born on a river lot farm east of St. Albert in 1906, she was so…
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Nellie Carlson and the Indian Rights for Indian Women movement
Disclaimer: Due to the importance around the legal designation of Indian status, this article sometimes uses the term “Indian” to…
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Candy Cane Lane
Before Esther and Ron Matcham moved to Edmonton, the stretch of 148th Street between 92nd and 100th Avenue wasn’t much…
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The Weather Woman of the West: Eda Owen and the Highlands Dominion Meteorological Station
Edmonton’s history is full of remarkable women. From Beatrice Carmichael to Thelma Chalifoux, from Betty Stanhope-Cole to Felicia Graham, from…
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The Legislature Maces
In its simplest terms, the mace represents the authority of Her Majesty the Queen to create law and to rule…
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The Edmonscona Plan
Edmonton is a city covered in names. From Capilano to Calder, from Delton to Duggan, from Ermineskin to Elsinore, our…
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Queers on Campus
Before the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969, the University of Alberta’s queer community was similar to those everywhere else in Canada:…