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  • Colours of the Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan Sikh Parade

    Gagan Kaur Hoonjan

    If you come to Mill Woods on the Sunday of Victoria Day long weekend, you’ll join thousands of people coming…

  • Cariwest: The Caribbean Community’s Gift to Edmonton

    Donna Coombs-Montrose

    CARIWEST – Caribbean Arts Festival was introduced to Edmonton in 1984. It was created by Western Carnival Development Association (WCDA)…

  • “It’s in our veins,” Part 2: Edmonton Dance Schools and Latin American Identity

    Miguel A. Priolo Marín & Nieva W. Srayko

    Read “It’s in our veins,” Part 1 Immigration to a new community involves a dramatic change that can affect nearly…

  • “It’s in our veins,” Part 1: Edmonton Dance Schools and Latin American Identity

    Miguel A. Priolo Marín & Nieva W. Srayko

    Alejandro (Alex) Rojas, the founder of ETOWN SALSA Latin Dance Studios, moved from Chile to Edmonton with his parents in…

  • Sons of Norway

    Lawrence Herzog

    One hundred years ago, Edmonton’s small community of Norwegian newcomers gathered together to start the Nordpolen (North Pole) Lodge No….

  • Edmonton’s South Asian Community

    Sam Singh

    Today, Edmonton is home to more than 60,000 people of South Asian heritage.  Speaking Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam,…

  • There Were No Safety Nets, Part 3: Edmonton’s Italian Community, 1949 to the Present

    Adriana A. Davies

    The end of the Second World War in 1945 signalled an economic boom for Canada with primary and secondary industries…