Nick Mischi: Dulcimer Master
Necolai “Nick” Mischi was eight years old in 1915 when he fell in love for the first time. It happened…
Stories tagged: Jasper Ave
When Trolleys Came to Edmonton
For 70 years, electric trolleybuses travelled the streets of Edmonton. Between 1939 and 2009, they provided the city with an…
Mike’s News Stand
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
Note: at the time depicted in this story as well as when it was written, Edmonton’s CFL team was known…
Chocolate Bar Strike
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
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
Just as importantly, the earliest archivists and some government leaders understood the enormous value of this visual history, and had…