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  • Nick Mischi: Dulcimer Master

    Lawrence Herzog

    Necolai “Nick” Mischi was eight years old in 1915 when he fell in love for the first time. It happened…

  • When Trolleys Came to Edmonton

    Lawrence Herzog

    For 70 years, electric trolleybuses travelled the streets of Edmonton. Between 1939 and 2009, they provided the city with an…

  • Mike’s News Stand

    Lawrence Herzog

    For 70 years, Mike’s News Stand was an Edmonton institution. For most of that time, it operated from a storefront…

  • Edmonton’s Town Crier

    Lawrence Herzog

    Note: at the time depicted in this story as well as when it was written, Edmonton’s CFL team was known…

  • Chocolate Bar Strike

    Neil Cramer

    How frequently is it that we hear our peers or elders talk about how children are lazy and don’t have…

  • Edmonton’s Lost Banks

    Lawrence Herzog

    Jasper Avenue has a long tradition as Edmonton’s centre of commerce and financial enterprise. At one point in the early…

  • Edmonton’s Pioneer Photographers

    Lawrence Herzog

    Just as importantly, the earliest archivists and some government leaders understood the enormous value of this visual history, and had…