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  • The Ice Age in Edmonton

    Lawrence Herzog

    There is a fascinating series of photos in the Hubert Hollingworth Collection at the City of Edmonton Archives which shows men…

  • The Last Edmonton Coal Mine: Whitemud Creek

    Katherine Koller

    Rambling up the steep paths of the Whitemud Creek cutbank, a view of Rainbow Valley Park appears along with the…

  • There Were No Safety Nets, Part 2: Edmonton’s Italian Community, 1921 to 1945

    Adriana A. Davies

    With the ending of the First World War, the Government of Canada amended the 1910 Immigration Act.[1] The 1919 amendment…

  • There Were No Safety Nets, Part 1: Edmonton’s Italian Community, 1900 to 1920

    Adriana A. Davies

    In an age in which Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees fundamental rights and immigrants, whether economic migrants or…

  • The Cowboys in the Sky: The Story of Edmonton’s Ironworkers

    Jamie Ausmus

    High above the rooftops, the iron giants balance and shimmy along beams, attaching one piece of strategically placed steel after…

  • Yearbook Ads – Douglas Printing

    Curio Studio

    Over the course of Curio’s working relationship with the Royal Alexandra Hospital, we discovered a tucked-away archive of old yearbooks…

  • June 29, 1915 — Edmonton’s River Valley Floods

    Sally Scott

    On June 29, 1915, the North Saskatchewan River flooded Edmonton’s river valley. The river had flooded before, of course, but…

  • Edmonton’s World War II Heroines

    Laurie Callsen

    During the five years of the Second World War, Edmonton came into its own as a city, where anything is…

  • 100 Years of Calder

    Lawrence Herzog

    Calder’s story began in the early years of the 20th century when GTPR decided to locate its roundhouse, repair shop…