Against the Law: the 1988 Nurses’ Strike
“The government can make all the laws they want, but they can’t stop people from going on strike… You could…
“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…
I married into a big Edmonton family. The matriarch of the clan is Elsie Henderson (née Maksymuik), my wife’s grandmother….
In the book Women: Her Character, Culture and Calling published in 1890 the author writes; Woman the half of humanity, and…
During the five years of the Second World War, Edmonton came into its own as a city, where anything is…