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Ah-Yin’s Chinese Persons’ Street or Amy’s Chinatown

Places May 15, 2020

The first Chinese Gate to welcome visitors has been moved into storage to make way for the incoming LRT.

Forty years later, my Chinatown has become a sweet, fond memory of our city; Edmonton is growing on without it.

Tags 97 Street, Cantonese, Chans, childhood, Chinatown, Chinese Elders Mansion, Chinese head tax, Chinese Heritage, City Market, Downtown, gentrification, Great West Garment Company, Harbin Gate, Local Business, LRT, Migration, Neighbourhoods, storytelling, Taishanese, Tses, urban re-development, yegdt, yegheritage

Edmonton and Its Pedway: A Love-Hate Relationship for the Ages

Things August 16, 2016

“By 1968, a pedway plan was approved by the city. It is important to note, though, that this plan was never a unified one—clarity never seems to have been reached regarding exactly what our pedway would look like or encompass.”

Tags 1970s building boom, design, development, Downtown, Downtown Business Association, Edmonton City Centre, Jim Taylor, pedways, urban planning, urbanisation

Edmonton’s Town Crier

Lawrence Herzog

People March 4, 2015

Pete Jamieson was one of Edmonton’s most colourful characters. For more than 50 years, he strode the streets of downtown, barking out all manner of vital – and not so vital! – information. The weather forecast, sports scores, the latest specials and whatever else tickled his fancy was broadcast with his loud voice and sometimes through a megaphone plastered with Edmonton Eskimos stickers.

Tags Advertising, Downtown, Town Crier

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