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  • Senior portrait of a young white woman with dark hair wearing a high-collared dress. Text read “Miss G. Misener.” It is the senior photo of Geneva Misener from Queen’s University.

    “More than a prize scholar or bookworm”: The Leadership and Legacy of Dr. Geneva Misener

    Pamela Young

    Dr. Geneva Misener, the first woman professor at the University of Alberta, was a trailblazing educator and feminist who advanced women’s rights, education, and sport in early Alberta.

    Despite her momentous accomplishments during her lifetime, Misener’s legacy has largely been forgotten in Edmonton.

    In this addition to our ECAMP labour history series, Pamela Young crafts a personal letter to Misener recounting her experience searching to learn more details about Misener’s life. Young traces Misener’s career from her senior year at Queen’s University to her PhD program at the University of Chicago to her appointment to the Classics department at the University of Alberta. In 1943, Misener lost her position at the U of A, turning to other forms of educating and community engagement. Young expresses her sadness that Misener’s career is not better remembered in Edmonton.

  • Dr. Lila Fahlman: The First Muslim Woman Awarded the Order of Canada

    Bruce Cinnamon

    Lila Fahlman’s career as an activist began with a riot. It was Canada Day 1935, and the 11-year-old Lila was…

  • City as Arboretum

    Dustin Bajer

    Edmonton is a unique blend of indigenous and introduced species. As a sprawling city that contains eighteen-thousand acres of river-valley,…

  • Margaret Crang: the AOC of #yegcc circa 1933

    Bruce Cinnamon

    When Margaret Crang won a seat as an alderman in the 1933 municipal election, she set the record as the…

  • NeWest Press: A Regional Publishing Pioneer

    Tracey L. Anderson

    NeWest Press may no longer be new—it will soon commemorate its 40th anniversary—but when it began in 1977, it was…

  • Garneau: A Neighbourhood of Nations

    Jenna Chalifoux

    As we go about our daily lives, driving the kids to school or walking the dog, we often forget that…

  • Friday Nights: Love & Music at the Rainbow Ballroom

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Every Friday a thousand teenagers would line up under the red neon sign to hear local bands like The Lords…

  • The Strange Disappearance of Felicia Graham

    Kathryn MacLean

    The School Board, citing her persistence for fair compensation as being indicative of depression, suggested that she had jumped from…

  • The Studhorse Man and the High Level Bridge

    Jannie Edwards

    In 1969, my first year of university, I was finally free of the social girdle of my small prairie town….

  • The High Level Bridge at 100

    Lawrence Herzog

    It wasn’t fancy, but it was strong and structural, with 17.2 million pounds of steel held together with 1.4 million…

  • Urban Dream

    Wendy Gervais

    I know… in my mind I know they were thinking of moving. In my mind I remember hearing, “This house…