Stories

“At the encouragement of the mayor of Edmonton at the time (Elmer Roper), I took a tour of several major planetariums in the USA. That’s when I discovered (to my amazement — and even horror) that we were doing more sophisticated programming in the QEP… [which] began to attract world-wide attention from others in the planetarium profession.”

Former Edmontonian Mel Hurtig died in Vancouver on August 3, 2016, at 84 years old. His two passions—publishing and politics—intersected to create a lasting legacy. What started as one Edmonton book store became a long, storied career in Canada’s literary and political scenes.