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  • Tokens of Remembrance: Indigenous Faces in Edmonton’s Beaux Arts Architecture, 1907-1930

    Cole Hawkins

    Disclaimer: Due to the importance around the legal designation of Indian status, this article sometimes uses the term “Indian” to…

  • Place Renaming in Edmonton: A Constant in the City’s History

    Connor Thompson

    Renaming places in Edmonton has become a major point of public discussion with several renamings occurring, or being proposed, since…

  • The Last Black West: Oklahoma Freedmen Seek Refuge in Alberta, Part 1

    Dr. Russell Cobb

    Advertisements promoting the “Last Best West”—a frontier open to all pioneers—have become an ingrained part of the Canadian national mythology.  Like…

  • The Curious Case of the 1908 Enoch Surrender

    Rob Houle

    At the time of Treaty No. 6, much change and settlement was taking place in the West, with displacement and…

  • Frank Oliver and Infantile Edmonton

    Rob Houle

    Traversing across the North Saskatchewan River on the Groat Road Bridge and climbing the Valley Road has little significance other…