Tracks into the Past
The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) arrived in Edmonton in 1905 and laid tracks into downtown just north of 104th Avenue…
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Crawford Block
Over its 102 years, the main floor of the building has served as a tent and awning store and was…
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The City Market: Local Goods and a Homegrown Community
When I first moved downtown from the Whyte Avenue area, I was incredibly nervous. Resistant to the idea that downtown…
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Edmonton’s World War II Heroines
During the five years of the Second World War, Edmonton came into its own as a city, where anything is…
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Silver Heights Peony Garden
Photo credit: Dr. James Brander and children, Silver Heights Peony Garden. Provincial Archives of Alberta #B6794. Photographer: Ernest Brown Prominent Edmonton physician James…
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The Studhorse Man and the High Level Bridge
In 1969, my first year of university, I was finally free of the social girdle of my small prairie town….