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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.

  • Edmonton's Old City Hall

    Edmonton’s 1957 City Hall

    Lawrence Herzog

    Edmonton’s second City Hall was a news-making building right from the beginning. Completed in 1957 as one of Canada’s first…