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  • A photograph of Robert Goulet in a suit with slicked-back hair speaking to Laura Lindsay, who is elegantly dressed in front of a fireplace.

    Laura Lindsay, First Lady of Daytime TV in Alberta from 1955-68

    Katherine Koller

    When Sunwapta Broadcasting first produced local television in Edmonton in 1954, CFRN aimed daytime programs at the homemaker audience. Laura Banks was the popular face of this programming from 1955-1968, under the stage name Laura Lindsay. Decades after her death, she remains well-loved by women who tuned in for her sewing and cooking demonstrations and celebrity interviews.

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  • Early Market Gardens in Edmonton

    Katherine Koller

    Surrounded by rows of towering tomato, cucumber and pepper plants in a greenhouse near Edmonton, I marvelled at tapas from…

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  • The Last Edmonton Coal Mine: Whitemud Creek

    Katherine Koller

    Rambling up the steep paths of the Whitemud Creek cutbank, a view of Rainbow Valley Park appears along with the…

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  • McKernan’s Lost Lake

    Katherine Koller

    Although the lake is no longer visible, its “ghost” is discernable on early maps and in the form of flooding…

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  • The Year of the Alaska Highway: 1942

    Katherine Koller

    When the world went to war again in 1939, Edmonton was an agriculture, coal mining and railway center of 90,000…

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