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  • A photograph of Robert Goulet in a suit with slicked-back hair speaking to Laura Lindsay, who is elegantly dressed in front of a fireplace.

    Laura Lindsay, First Lady of Daytime TV in Alberta from 1955-68

    Katherine Koller

    When Sunwapta Broadcasting first produced local television in Edmonton in 1954, CFRN aimed daytime programs at the homemaker audience. Laura Banks was the popular face of this programming from 1955-1968, under the stage name Laura Lindsay. Decades after her death, she remains well-loved by women who tuned in for her sewing and cooking demonstrations and celebrity interviews.

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  • Early Market Gardens in Edmonton

    Katherine Koller

    Surrounded by rows of towering tomato, cucumber and pepper plants in a greenhouse near Edmonton, I marvelled at tapas from…

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  • The End of the World: From Found Space to Keillor Point

    Giselle General

    The summer of 2010 was a memorable time: I started dating my future husband, and I started exploring Edmonton’s river…

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  • Architect Doris Tanner: What did she do? Work and life in fine balance

    Cheryl Mahaffy

    It’s 2003, early in the new millennium but regrettably late in the story I’m aiming to tell. Doris Tanner died…

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  • McKernan’s Lost Lake

    Katherine Koller

    Although the lake is no longer visible, its “ghost” is discernable on early maps and in the form of flooding…

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