Peter Erasmus & Storytelling
There’s something about a good story and a good storyteller. Stories and facts aren’t exclusive, thank goodness. We all connect…
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Kisiskāciwani-sīpiy – Swift Flowing River
Rising out of the Rocky Mountain glaciers, flowing ever eastward toward Hudson Bay, the North Saskatchewan River has meandered across…
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NeWest Press: A Regional Publishing Pioneer
NeWest Press may no longer be new—it will soon commemorate its 40th anniversary—but when it began in 1977, it was…
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The Legislature Maces
In its simplest terms, the mace represents the authority of Her Majesty the Queen to create law and to rule…
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Edmonton’s Candied Past
Right from the beginning, Edmonton has had a sweet tooth. Newcomers from European countries brought with them a love for…
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Shapeshifting: The Men’s Faculty Club, the Faculty Women’s Club, and Gender at the University of Alberta
As the century continued, Edmonton entered a heyday of its own, including the opening of the University of Alberta in…
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Edmonton’s “Sunday Modernism” – Modernist Churches in the Post-War Era
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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The Haven Social Club: Buy Lots, Tip Well
The walk up to 15120 Stony Plain Road was a gritty one. Dimly-lit advertisements for adult parlours, pawn shops and…
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Edmonton’s Short-lived “Charity Meters”
On April 30, 2001, Mayor Bill Smith smiled for the collected throng of reporters and photographers and dropped the first…
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The Year of the Alaska Highway: 1942
When the world went to war again in 1939, Edmonton was an agriculture, coal mining and railway center of 90,000…
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Beatrice Carmichael – The Grand Dame of Edmonton Opera
Known to her students and close friends as Auntie Van, Beatrice Carmichael was a classically trained musician from Chicago, who…
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Heritage Meets History: Exploring a Family’s Past
I married into a big Edmonton family. The matriarch of the clan is Elsie Henderson (née Maksymuik), my wife’s grandmother….
