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  • Re-Imagining Rossdale: Pehonan and the Power Plant

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    EPCOR decommissioned the Rossdale power plant in 2011 and handed it over to the City not long after I moved…

  • The City Market: Local Goods and a Homegrown Community

    Sally Scott

    When I first moved downtown from the Whyte Avenue area, I was incredibly nervous. Resistant to the idea that downtown…

  • Edmonton’s Lost Banks

    Lawrence Herzog

    Jasper Avenue has a long tradition as Edmonton’s centre of commerce and financial enterprise. At one point in the early…

  • Edmonton’s Pioneer Photographers

    Lawrence Herzog

    Just as importantly, the earliest archivists and some government leaders understood the enormous value of this visual history, and had…

  • Donnan Family and Queen Alexandra Dairy 1911- 1932

    Dawn Saunders-Dahl

    John Donnan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1892 and immigrated to Canada in March 1902 as a young…

  • Wilfrid “Wop” May: An Old-School Hero for a New Generation

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Dime novelists and reporters from the days of the earliest flights were only too happy to feed that appetite with…

  • 100 Years of Calder

    Lawrence Herzog

    Calder’s story began in the early years of the 20th century when GTPR decided to locate its roundhouse, repair shop…