The people who did the most dangerous jobs constructing the skyscrapers in downtown Edmonton in the 1960s and 1970s were almost all Metis ironworkers. That included the CN Tower.
It’s 2003, early in the new millennium but regrettably late in the story I’m aiming to tell. Doris Tanner died…
The floor in Jesse Watson’s Calder bungalow is stamped with words like “wheat” and “barley,” clues to a fascinating past….
In Edmonton’s early years, milled lumber was in short supply, and so dwellings were often constructed using logs. Early European…