Alex Decoteau’s Inspiring Run at Life
Decoteau was born on November 19, 1887 on the Red Pheasant Reserve just south of Battleford in present day Saskatchewan….
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Chocolate Bar Strike
How frequently is it that we hear our peers or elders talk about how children are lazy and don’t have…
Tracks into the Past
The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) arrived in Edmonton in 1905 and laid tracks into downtown just north of 104th Avenue…
1920s WWI commemorative shield found
One of the most unique artifacts on permanent display at Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum is a large bronze…
The City Market: Local Goods and a Homegrown Community
When I first moved downtown from the Whyte Avenue area, I was incredibly nervous. Resistant to the idea that downtown…
Edmonton’s Lost Banks
Jasper Avenue has a long tradition as Edmonton’s centre of commerce and financial enterprise. At one point in the early…
Edmonton’s Pioneer Photographers
Just as importantly, the earliest archivists and some government leaders understood the enormous value of this visual history, and had…
Edmonton: The Great Escape
On August 1, 1926 there is a story that the barking of a small dog startled an elephant named Mary…
Edmonton’s 1957 City Hall
Edmonton’s second City Hall was a news-making building right from the beginning. Completed in 1957 as one of Canada’s first…
Parking Meter Fairy’s days numbered
The officer stops writing and mutters, “You could.” Oh, thank you, Parking Patrol Officer. Clink, clink, clink, clink go four…
Wayne Condo at StreetFest, 1998
The artists and volunteers at StreetFest go out of their way to bring their best to our stage—Sir Winston Churchill…
Linear Stories on the LRT
While riding the LRT from Bay to University, memories often come to me. Ingrained in each station are personal stories,…