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  • Brewmonton – A YEG Brew History Primer

    Ryan Stephens

    Whether or not you’re one to personally enjoy the sudsy beverages, Edmonton has been shaped by a brewing and distilling industry that has…

  • Edmonton’s Town Crier

    Lawrence Herzog

    Note: at the time depicted in this story as well as when it was written, Edmonton’s CFL team was known…

  • Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1

    Dr. Russell Cobb

    Many recent projects—the expansion of the University of Alberta, the construction of the West Edmonton Mall, the plans for new…

  • Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 2

    Dr. Russell Cobb

    Continued from Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1 This moment in Edmonton’s history happened to coincide with one of the…

  • Edmonton's Old City Hall

    Edmonton’s 1957 City Hall

    Lawrence Herzog

    Edmonton’s second City Hall was a news-making building right from the beginning. Completed in 1957 as one of Canada’s first…

  • The Studhorse Man and the High Level Bridge

    Jannie Edwards

    In 1969, my first year of university, I was finally free of the social girdle of my small prairie town….