Women like Emma Minde joined Homemakers’ Clubs to overcome isolation by doing work like sewing, canning, and charity drives together. Indian Affairs required its approval to start these clubs though, and used them to monitor members’ activities.
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.
The people who did the most dangerous jobs constructing the skyscrapers in downtown Edmonton in the 1960s and 1970s were almost all Metis ironworkers. That included the CN Tower.
“…first night for supper….he put a plate in front of me and I said “Mahsi!” In my language, thank you….
In August of 1782, Fort York was captured by the French. Edward Umphreville and some other HBC men were taken by…
There are many notable women in Edmonton’s history books. The ‘Famous Five’ may come to mind straight away, in addition to…
History is how we understand the past and that understanding is based on records made and kept by biased hands….
On December 7, 2020, following over a year of planning and work by the Edmonton Boundaries Commission, Edmonton City Council…
Plans are afoot for spring. Sunday was spent scouring the glossy pages full of roots and blossoms in a favourite…
Sophie’s Way is a twist of concrete winding up a short but steep hill in the Edmonton river valley. The…
When Dr. Anne Anderson was born on a river lot farm east of St. Albert in 1906, she was so…
The history of missionaries as they relate to the development of post-contact Canada is long, complicated, and often very emotional,…