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  • Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre: Architectural Masterpiece and Community Recreation Hub

    Tracey L. Anderson

    Coronation Park, in west central Edmonton, is a 35-hectare park named to honour Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 coronation. Although small compared to other City of Edmonton parks, it has many historically significant sites. One of those is Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre, which many older Edmontonians still think of and refer to by its original name: Coronation Pool.

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  • Edmonton’s “Sunday Modernism” – Modernist Churches in the Post-War Era

    Tai Ziola

    The institution of the church is changing. The congregation at Ebenezer United Church in West Edmonton will be merging[1] with…

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  • Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1

    Dr. Russell Cobb

    Many recent projects—the expansion of the University of Alberta, the construction of the West Edmonton Mall, the plans for new…

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  • Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 2

    Dr. Russell Cobb

    Continued from Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1 This moment in Edmonton’s history happened to coincide with one of the…

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