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While fur was a common way to keep warm, it was also expensive. One advertisement in the January 13, 1905 edition of the Edmonton Bulletin noted that a ladies’ beaver coat, on sale at the Hudson’s Bay, was $15 - equivalent to approximately $405 today.

Even in the days before Twitter, Facebook, texting and email, news still traveled fast when the ceasefire between German armies and Allied forces was signed on November 11, 1918.

Women are expected it to do it all with a smile: volunteerism, working outside the home and taking care of a family under a tight budget in a city growing faster than its infrastructure can handle. Sound like 2014? More like 1944.