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  • History of Edmonton’s Gay Bars, Part 2: A Flashback to Flashback

    Ron Byers and Rob Browatzke

    Read Part 1: The Beginning In the summer of 1975, Pat F., Johnny K., Harvey J., Paul Chisholm (more popularly…

  • History of Edmonton’s Gay Bars, Part 1: The Beginning

    Ron Byers and Rob Browatzke

    Same-sex relations have been a part of life on the expansive prairies since time immemorial. Some Indigenous Nations have long…

  • Alice Mailhot Ross: Canada’s first female architect?

    Cheryl Mahaffy

    Growing up, Alice Mailhot set her sights on being an engineer like her father. Perhaps Zepherin Mailhot’s life in frontier…

  • The History of Filipino Businesses in Edmonton

    Giselle General

    “Anak, siksikan nating yung bagahe mo nitong mga produktong Pinoy na ma-eenjoy ng mga kamag-anak natin. Alam kong wala ito…

  • 10024-102 Street: Rony’s / Dapple Gray Cafe / Appleby / Cheddars / Cafe Elite

    Darrin Hagen

    The central downtown neighbourhood south of Jasper Avenue but north of the river valley was a small but busy hub…

  • Ah-Yin’s Chinese Persons’ Street or Amy’s Chinatown

    Amy Wong

    I want to share my personal history of growing up in one of Edmonton’s Chinatowns in the 1970s. The Chinatown,…

  • Crawford Block

    Lawrence Herzog

    Over its 102 years, the main floor of the building has served as a tent and awning store and was…