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  • A photograph of Robert Goulet in a suit with slicked-back hair speaking to Laura Lindsay, who is elegantly dressed in front of a fireplace.

    Laura Lindsay, First Lady of Daytime TV in Alberta from 1955-68

    Katherine Koller

    When Sunwapta Broadcasting first produced local television in Edmonton in 1954, CFRN aimed daytime programs at the homemaker audience. Laura Banks was the popular face of this programming from 1955-1968, under the stage name Laura Lindsay. Decades after her death, she remains well-loved by women who tuned in for her sewing and cooking demonstrations and celebrity interviews.

  • Teachable Moments

    Bruce Cinnamon

    Velva Hueston moved to Edmonton with her mother in the early 1920s, after her father died in the 1918 flu…

  • Imrie House: Home of Canada’s First Female Architectural Firm 

    Josephine Boxwell

    Imrie House is unassuming. It is an older home, modest in size, tucked away at the end of a treed…

  • Left to right: Val Scoffield, Sophie Derbawka and June Dumka dressed in old-timey clothing during the Victoria Park Golf Course’s Centennial Celebrations (1907 to 2007) in 2007. Image courtesy of Joan Crawford.

    How Sophie Got Her Way

    Lea Storry

    “Sophie had red hair and was a lively personality,” Joan said. “She was a schoolteacher and goal-focused. She was determined to get that cart path.”

  • Part I – Marguerite Rowand-McKay: Matriarch, Naturalist, Armchair Traveler, Bison Ally

    Jenna Chalifoux

    The 1821 merger of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the North-West Company (NWC) harkened an era of unfettered commerce…

  • From Edmonton Chinatown: The All-Girls Cultural Troupe

    Lan Chan-Marples

    Have you ever heard of the China Dolls?  Not the glazed porcelain dolls or the 2015 novel written by Chinese-American…

  • Daughters of Shining Star

    Jenna Chalifoux

    There are many notable women in Edmonton’s history books. The ‘Famous Five’ may come to mind straight away, in addition to…

  • Vivacious Caribbean Teachers

    Etty Shaw-Cameron

    During the 1960s, school jurisdictions in Alberta advertised for teachers in leading newspapers and at teacher training colleges in the…

  • Louise Umphreville: Edmonton’s Forgotten First Lady

    Tom Long

    History is how we understand the past and that understanding is based on records made and kept by biased hands….

  • Dr. Lila Fahlman: The First Muslim Woman Awarded the Order of Canada

    Bruce Cinnamon

    Lila Fahlman’s career as an activist began with a riot. It was Canada Day 1935, and the 11-year-old Lila was…