How Sophie Got Her Way
“Sophie had red hair and was a lively personality,” Joan said. “She was a schoolteacher and goal-focused. She was determined to get that cart path.”
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Colours of the Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan Sikh Parade
If you come to Mill Woods on the Sunday of Victoria Day long weekend, you’ll join thousands of people coming…
The Camel Humps: A Special Little Corner of Edmonton
Around the time that Alberta became a province in 1905, the riverbank went through a process that produced its unique topography that gives it its odd “Camel Humps” name today.
THE HILL: The Secret Edge of Downtown
MacDonald Drive has overlooked the river valley from Edmonton’s earliest incarnation, marking the south edge of downtown, a steep bank…
Part III – Marguerite Rowand-McKay: Matriarch, Naturalist, Armchair Traveler, Bison Ally
When Marguerite reached the tiny house with the Assiniboine River ambling by and its thickets of linden and maple awash…
Part I – Marguerite Rowand-McKay: Matriarch, Naturalist, Armchair Traveler, Bison Ally
The 1821 merger of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the North-West Company (NWC) harkened an era of unfettered commerce…
Part II – Marguerite Rowand-McKay: Matriarch, Naturalist, Armchair Traveler, Bison Ally
At the height of summer in 1838, Roman Catholic priests François Blanchet and Modeste Demers visited L’Fort des Prairies (Fort…
Wong Bark Ging 黃柏振 : A History of My Father’s Market Gardens
One hundred years ago my father stepped onto Canadian soil for the first time. It wasn’t until he passed away…
From Edmonton Chinatown: The All-Girls Cultural Troupe
Have you ever heard of the China Dolls? Not the glazed porcelain dolls or the 2015 novel written by Chinese-American…
Pantages and The Strand
Edmonton came by its reputation as a theatre city honestly, and more than once over the last century. At one…
World War II and the Chinese Women’s Club in Edmonton
An April 1946 photo of three young Chinese women in the Edmonton Journal readily captured a reader’s eye. Freshly home…
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…