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  • Architect Doris Tanner: What did she do? Work and life in fine balance

    Cheryl Mahaffy

    It’s 2003, early in the new millennium but regrettably late in the story I’m aiming to tell. Doris Tanner died…

  • Reverend McDougall’s 1871 Mission House: Epicentre of Edmonton’s Early Jewish Business Community

    Dylan Reade

    The year 2021 will be the 150th anniversary of the construction of Reverend George McDougall’s 1871 Methodist Mission House.  This important…

  • History of West Ritchie

    Cooper Csorba

    At the center of West Ritchie is 81st Avenue (between 102nd and 100th Street), a commercial street that feels far removed from the…

  • Alice Mailhot Ross: Canada’s first female architect?

    Cheryl Mahaffy

    Growing up, Alice Mailhot set her sights on being an engineer like her father. Perhaps Zepherin Mailhot’s life in frontier…

  • New Life for Old Wood

    Lawrence Herzog

    The floor in Jesse Watson’s Calder bungalow is stamped with words like “wheat” and “barley,” clues to a fascinating past….

  • These Bricks are Real Clinkers

    Lawrence Herzog

    Kilns used to produce bricks in the early 20th century didn’t have the ability to heat evenly, and those placed…

  • The Mountifield House

    Lawrence Herzog

    Designed by renowned local architect James Edward Wize and built in 1905, the Mountifield House was one of Oliver’s earliest…

  • The Story of Sylvancroft

    Lawrence Herzog

    The grand residence that Harry Marshall Erskine Evans built starting in 1911 has survived the passage of 100 years virtually unaltered. Now…

  • Built with Logs

    Lawrence Herzog

    In Edmonton’s early years, milled lumber was in short supply, and so dwellings were often constructed using logs. Early European…

  • Apartment Living – Then and Now

    Sally Scott

    Imagine reading in a local newspaper the following description of a building to be built in Edmonton: A driveway will…