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  • Big Island: A Window into the Past

    Peggy Donnelly

    Big Island, a 70-acre island located 16 miles upstream from the city of Edmonton, is a lesser-known piece of Edmonton’s…

  • 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…

  • 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…