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  • Tokens of Remembrance: Indigenous Faces in Edmonton’s Beaux Arts Architecture, 1907-1930

    Cole Hawkins

    Disclaimer: Due to the importance around the legal designation of Indian status, this article sometimes uses the term “Indian” to…

  • Louise Umphreville: Edmonton’s Forgotten First Lady

    Tom Long

    History is how we understand the past and that understanding is based on records made and kept by biased hands….

  • There Were No Safety Nets, Part 1: Edmonton’s Italian Community, 1900 to 1920

    Adriana A. Davies

    In an age in which Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees fundamental rights and immigrants, whether economic migrants or…

  • The Legislature Maces

    Bruce Cinnamon

    In its simplest terms, the mace represents the authority of Her Majesty the Queen to create law and to rule…

  • Purple City: An Edmonton Tradition

    Rob Drinkwater

    It’s the name for the nighttime game that involves staring at the floodlights at the Legislature for about a minute,…