The Alberta Penitentiary operated on Edmonton’s River Lot 20 from 1906 – 1920, where Clarke Stadium is today. It was the first federal prison in Alberta. One constant in prisoners’ lives was unpaid hard labour, from mining coal to farming potatoes.
In 1932, Edmonton had the best women’s basketball team in the world: the Edmonton Commercial Graduates. But it looked like they’d have to miss a charity game that May in Calgary – they’d never be able to get there in time after work. Until, that is, the Grads’ coach rallied supporters to strap some seats into the back of two little aircraft and make history.
Imrie House is unassuming. It is an older home, modest in size, tucked away at the end of a treed…
“The government can make all the laws they want, but they can’t stop people from going on strike… You could…
When Margaret Crang won a seat as an alderman in the 1933 municipal election, she set the record as the…
The Canadian National Railway Pullman train bustled through the Rocky Mountains on the way from Vancouver headed for a stop…
Rambling up the steep paths of the Whitemud Creek cutbank, a view of Rainbow Valley Park appears along with the…
Growing up, Alice Mailhot set her sights on being an engineer like her father. Perhaps Zepherin Mailhot’s life in frontier…
When war was declared on August 4, 1914, men from the Edmonton region rushed to join up. Edmonton had two…
The end of the Second World War in 1945 signalled an economic boom for Canada with primary and secondary industries…
In an age in which Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees fundamental rights and immigrants, whether economic migrants or…
High above the rooftops, the iron giants balance and shimmy along beams, attaching one piece of strategically placed steel after…