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  • Dead Venues – Fall Update

    Eden Munro and Mike Siek

    Six two-minute talking-head style interviews viewable on the internet, along with links to associated content such as posters, images and…

  • The North Saskatchewan River

    Ester Malzahn

    Before the highways and railways, there was the North Saskatchewan River. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Saskatchewan River…

  • The Story of Sylvancroft

    Lawrence Herzog

    The grand residence that Harry Marshall Erskine Evans built starting in 1911 has survived the passage of 100 years virtually unaltered. Now…

  • Westmount School

    Lawrence Herzog

    Built on land that was part of the old Norris farm and purchased from the family for $3,200 in July…

  • Owen Cornish: Flying through Edmonton’s Cold War History

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    This past May, many of us celebrated the 70th anniversary of VE Day – or Victory Europe Day – the…

  • Built with Logs

    Lawrence Herzog

    In Edmonton’s early years, milled lumber was in short supply, and so dwellings were often constructed using logs. Early European…

  • Edmonton Folk Fest: How Did We Get Here?

    Bryan Birtles

    In 1980, with the province celebrating its 75th anniversary, an idea was hatched by Don Whalen and Mitch Podolak to…

  • Yearbook Ads – Douglas Printing

    Curio Studio

    Over the course of Curio’s working relationship with the Royal Alexandra Hospital, we discovered a tucked-away archive of old yearbooks…

  • The Spruce of Mill Creek School

    Christina Hardie

    Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have lived with the land upon which Mill Woods is built. Words like Sakaw, Meyokumin…

  • St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral

    Lawrence Herzog

    Built partly by parishioners and volunteers during the dark days of World War II, St. Josaphat Ukranian Catholic Cathedral is…

  • Ghosts of Camsell – Update

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    When Ghosts of Camsell went live in late March, I had no idea what to expect. I was definitely nervous…

  • June 29, 1915 — Edmonton’s River Valley Floods

    Sally Scott

    On June 29, 1915, the North Saskatchewan River flooded Edmonton’s river valley. The river had flooded before, of course, but…