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.
Rambling up the steep paths of the Whitemud Creek cutbank, a view of Rainbow Valley Park appears along with the…
With the ending of the First World War, the Government of Canada amended the 1910 Immigration Act.[1] The 1919 amendment…
In an age in which Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees fundamental rights and immigrants, whether economic migrants or…