The Cowboys in the Sky: The Story of Edmonton’s Ironworkers
High above the rooftops, the iron giants balance and shimmy along beams, attaching one piece of strategically placed steel after…
Stories tagged: Urban history
The Edmonscona Plan
Edmonton is a city covered in names. From Capilano to Calder, from Delton to Duggan, from Ermineskin to Elsinore, our…
Garneau: A Neighbourhood of Nations
As we go about our daily lives, driving the kids to school or walking the dog, we often forget that…
When Trolleys Came to Edmonton
For 70 years, electric trolleybuses travelled the streets of Edmonton. Between 1939 and 2009, they provided the city with an…
The Father of Edmonton’s Traffic Circles
He established the practice of “neighbourhood unit” planning. And, borrowing a popular urban design feature from his native land, he…
Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1
Many recent projects—the expansion of the University of Alberta, the construction of the West Edmonton Mall, the plans for new…
Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 2
Continued from Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1 This moment in Edmonton’s history happened to coincide with one of the…
Tracks into the Past
The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) arrived in Edmonton in 1905 and laid tracks into downtown just north of 104th Avenue…
The City Market: Local Goods and a Homegrown Community
When I first moved downtown from the Whyte Avenue area, I was incredibly nervous. Resistant to the idea that downtown…
Who killed the friendly neighbourhood mall?
Capilano Mall is the saddest mall in Edmonton. Yet in its last days before major renovations starting in June, the…
Edmonton’s 1957 City Hall
Edmonton’s second City Hall was a news-making building right from the beginning. Completed in 1957 as one of Canada’s first…
Parking Meter Fairy’s days numbered
The officer stops writing and mutters, “You could.” Oh, thank you, Parking Patrol Officer. Clink, clink, clink, clink go four…