“It’s in our veins,” Part 1: Edmonton Dance Schools and Latin American Identity
Alejandro (Alex) Rojas, the founder of ETOWN SALSA Latin Dance Studios, moved from Chile to Edmonton with his parents in…
Stories categorized: Places
10024-102 Street: Rony’s / Dapple Gray Cafe / Appleby / Cheddars / Cafe Elite
The central downtown neighbourhood south of Jasper Avenue but north of the river valley was a small but busy hub…
From Parking Lots to Palm Trees (And Back Again): A Look Back at Heritage Mall
Brenda Hall was just 18 years old when she stepped off the bus in the community of Kaskitayo on a…
Ah-Yin’s Chinese Persons’ Street or Amy’s Chinatown
I want to share my personal history of growing up in one of Edmonton’s Chinatowns in the 1970s. The Chinatown,…
Edmonton’s Downtown Lunch Counters
Long before shopping malls and suburbia, the heart of the city was Edmonton’s preferred place to pause for a meal…
Beth Shalom Synagogue
The Beth Shalom Synagogue is an Oliver neighbourhood landmark at 11906 Jasper Avenue. When it was completed in 1951, the…
Edmonton: A World Class Dump, Part Three – Salvage Men, Coal Mines, and a Futuristic Weir
In the middle of the twentieth century, G. S. Woodward was one of a handful of Edmontonians who plied the…
The Curious Case of the 1908 Enoch Surrender
At the time of Treaty No. 6, much change and settlement was taking place in the West, with displacement and…
Edmonton’s Dearly Departed Funeral Parlours
Funeral homes and crematoriums can be found scattered around Edmonton today, but through most of the 20th century, downtown was…
McKernan’s Lost Lake
Although the lake is no longer visible, its “ghost” is discernable on early maps and in the form of flooding…
Amiskwaciwâskahikan Ostêsimâwasinahikan Nikotwâsik
Throughout Indigenous territories, histories, cultures and stories, there exist a number of locations that hold a special significance, apart from…
Little Mosque in the Park
How did a mosque come to be in Fort Edmonton Park? Where did it come from? Why does it look…