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  • Wooden boats crewed by colourful voyageurs meet crowds of HBC employees, Métis, and First Nations on the bank below an expansive wooden fort. First Nations tipis also crown the nearby hills.

    The Company and the Combination: Collective Bargaining at the River’s Edge

    Tom Long

    In 1853, a group of voyageurs shipping furs from Fort Edmonton put down their oars in solidarity with one of their crew members. It was an early murmuring of organized labour in the West: not quite a strike, not quite a mutiny, but very much a show of strength and unity.

  • A daguerrotype of an older woman, a boy, and a young man.

    Lessons of loss and perseverance from Jane Klyne McDonald

    Catherine C. Cole

    During the early days of the Covid pandemic, I thought of my Métis great-great-great-grandmother, and the loss of three of her young children to scarlet fever in Edmonton in May 1845.

  • Louise Umphreville: The Shining Star

    Jenna Chalifoux

    In August  of 1782, Fort York was captured by the French. Edward Umphreville and some other HBC men were taken by…

  • Daughters of Shining Star

    Jenna Chalifoux

    There are many notable women in Edmonton’s history books. The ‘Famous Five’ may come to mind straight away, in addition to…

  • Louise Umphreville: Edmonton’s Forgotten First Lady

    Tom Long

    History is how we understand the past and that understanding is based on records made and kept by biased hands….

  • In Dark Times, Go to the Garden: Part 1

    Jenna Chalifoux

    Plans are afoot for spring. Sunday was spent scouring the glossy pages full of roots and blossoms in a favourite…

  • Committed to Community: Hilwie Hamdon and The Muslim Ladies’ Association of Edmonton

    Dr. Nadia Kurd

    Edmontonian Hilwie Hamdon (née Taha Johma, 1905-1988) was a community leader and founding member of the historic Al Rashid Mosque, the…

  • Edmonton Goes to the Dogs

    Natalie Zacharewski

    Edmonton loves their dogs. If you are one of the many that own or ‘parent’ these animals, I would hazard…