Happy Memories of the Centennial Children’s Library
As the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) Shelley Milner Children’s Library reopened in September 2020 to become a new beautiful space…
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Childhood Experiences
The children may be our future, but they’ve also shaped the past. Discover more about the history of this place through reflections on growing up in Edmonton.
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,…
Candy Cane Lane
Before Esther and Ron Matcham moved to Edmonton, the stretch of 148th Street between 92nd and 100th Avenue wasn’t much…
My Royal Alberta Museum
The first time I saw the Provincial Museum of Alberta I was twelve years old. It was 1994 and the…
Remembering the Corner Store
A bell jangles as the weathered door creaks open and the smells and memories flood back: being six years old,…
The Spruce of Mill Creek School
Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have lived with the land upon which Mill Woods is built. Words like Sakaw, Meyokumin…
Long live the Pits!
You won’t find the Pits marked on any map, and many people who live nearby simply refer to the area…
Chocolate Bar Strike
How frequently is it that we hear our peers or elders talk about how children are lazy and don’t have…
Gyro Playgrounds Live On
Sally Stewart and Peggy Brown met at Kitchener Park playground in 1936. Sally had just moved into a new house,…
The Pits of Mill Woods
I grew up in South East Mill Woods. My back gate opened into a sprawling wheat field, scattered with dense…