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  • Bonnie Doon in the 1950s – Community Map

    Bonnie Doon Community League

    Explore how Bonnie Doon grew and developed from farm land to its current status as an urban, mature city neighbourhood….

  • Womonspace: Creating Space for Edmonton’s Lesbian Community in the 1980s

    Josephine Boxwell

    Womonspace was a social and recreational group for lesbians founded in 1981. Part of Edmonton’s LGBTQ landscape for over thirty…

  • The Father of Edmonton’s Traffic Circles

    Lawrence Herzog

    He established the practice of “neighbourhood unit” planning. And, borrowing a popular urban design feature from his native land, he…

  • 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…

  • Silver Heights Peony Garden

    Dawn Saunders-Dahl

    Photo credit: Dr. James Brander and children, Silver Heights Peony Garden. Provincial Archives of Alberta  #B6794. Photographer: Ernest Brown Prominent Edmonton physician James…