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  • Happy Memories of the Centennial Children’s Library

    Amy Wong

    As the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) Shelley Milner Children’s Library reopened in September 2020 to become a new beautiful space…

  • Rev. Robert Rundle: The Missionary and his Cat

    Neil Cramer

    The history of missionaries as they relate to the development of post-contact Canada is long, complicated, and often very emotional,…

  • The Last Edmonton Coal Mine: Whitemud Creek

    Katherine Koller

    Rambling up the steep paths of the Whitemud Creek cutbank, a view of Rainbow Valley Park appears along with the…

  • Edmonton Goes to the Dogs

    Natalie Zacharewski

    Edmonton loves their dogs. If you are one of the many that own or ‘parent’ these animals, I would hazard…

  • 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…

  • Edmonton: The Great Escape

    Mary Pinkoski

    On August 1, 1926 there is a story that the barking of a small dog startled an elephant named Mary…