Early Market Gardens in Edmonton
Surrounded by rows of towering tomato, cucumber and pepper plants in a greenhouse near Edmonton, I marvelled at tapas from…
Stories tagged: Kinsmen Park
Built with Logs
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
On June 29, 1915, the North Saskatchewan River flooded Edmonton’s river valley. The river had flooded before, of course, but…
The Studhorse Man and the High Level Bridge
In 1969, my first year of university, I was finally free of the social girdle of my small prairie town….
The High Level Bridge at 100
It wasn’t fancy, but it was strong and structural, with 17.2 million pounds of steel held together with 1.4 million…