These stories explore how we use our senses to understand our city, remember it, and figure out how it’s changing.
For generations of Edmontonians, the phrase “Halloween apples!” stirs childhood memories, but many younger people have never heard of it. It rivalled “Trick or treat” as children’s Halloween demand for decades, though.
There’s nothing quite as soul-warming as that first sip of hot coffee. Behind every cup is a much larger story - one that stretches across continents and generations. In this story, writer Isis Maria Henriquez shows how for her family, and so many other Latinos, coffee connected the snowy streets of Canada to the tropical forests of El Salvador.
Pemmican recipes have changed a lot over the centuries, passing from Indigenous people to colonial hands and back.
At its height in the nineteenth century, the Hudson’s Bay Company post at Fort Edmonton was a commercial hub along the North Saskatchewan River and, just like in the modern city of Edmonton today, people of many languages and cultures gathered there to live and do business with each other. In such a context, Bird’s translation skills were much in demand. Being an interpreter was a trusted position and words had far-reaching impact.