The rail bed, the chug-chug-chug and screeching whistle of the steam locomotives are long gone, but the Mill Creek Trestle Bridge endures as a remnant of the first railway to cross the North Saskatchewan River more than 100 years ago.
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Edmonton's 'Church Street,' more commonly known as 96th Street, was once cited by Ripley's Believe it or Not as having the largest concentration of churches in the world.
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When its cornerstone was officially laid May 7th,1955, the Federal Public Building was acclaimed as a tribute to the trappers, pioneers and settlers whose zeal and vision established the first foundations of this community.
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In a neighbourhood where the sound of progress the last 40 years has more often than not been the wrecking ball, it's remarkable that Oliver's historic apartment buildings have survived virtually intact.
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For nearly a century, it has served as a home for neglected and delinquent children, a hospital for expectant mothers, a hotel and an apartment block.
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The brick chimney stack just off Fort Road north of the Yellowhead Trail towers more than 30 metres (100-feet) above a barren field, a sentinel reminder of what was once one of the countrys most sophisticated packing plant buildings.
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Built in 1912, the Beth Israel Synagogue is not only Edmontons first Synagogue, it is also the oldest Synagogue still standing between Winnipeg and Victoria.
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Built in 1891, the Strathcona Hotel ranks as the oldest wood frame commercial building on Whyte Avenue. Constructed by the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company
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Swaddled in giant tarps and looking like some sort of a giant Meccano set wrapped up for the festive season, the northern half of Edmonton’s Low Level Bridge
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As cities sprawl, they gobble up not only valuable wetlands and agricultural land, but also the buildings that were such a vital part of farming through the 20th century.
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The City of Edmonton has added 23 more to the number of public and privately owned buildings proudly adorned with plaques from the Edmonton Historical Board.
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When the Silk Hat Restaurant closed its doors a couple of weeks ago, it brought to an end a nearly century long story of service to the city.
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Constructed 100 years ago by contractor Lester Allyn, this house at 9930/9932 112th Street is a rare Edmonton example of an Edwardian brick building.
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Built in 1959 and moved (and nearly damaged) in 1964, the building that is today home to Salisbury United Church on Sherwood Park’s Broadmoor Boulevard
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Strathcona was put on the map in 1891 when the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company completed its line from Calgary to a terminus south of the banks of the North Saskatchewan River.
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When its cornerstone was officially laid on May 7th,1955, Edmonton’s Federal Public Building was acclaimed as "a tribute to the trappers,
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Built in 1927 as the modest home of an Alberta Avenue business owner, the James Rutherford House has been recommended for designation as a Municipal Historic Resource.
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One hundred years ago, March 26th, 1909, members of All Saints Anglican Church met to discuss the need for a new place of worship in what was then called the “new west end.”
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Seventy-five years after it was built, the log cabin at 9905 115th Street is facing an uncertain future. The prime location, with a spectacular view overlooking the North Saskatchewan River valley,
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An orchestra played and special discounts were offered all day when the A.H. Richards and Company general store officially opened on March 12th, 1910.
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The Canadian Heritage Foundation calls one of precious remaining distinguished downtown homes one of the countrys 10 most-threatened heritage sites.
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From Edmonton’s earliest days, theatres have been popular places of entertainment and social interaction. As early as 1879, formal drama readings and recitations
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John Gainer didn't know much about the butchering trade when he arrived in Strathcona on one of the first Calgary & Edmonton Railway trains in 1891.
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It began as the hopeful idea of some like-minded people who wanted to spread the word and share their enthusiasm for something special and distinctive.
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For a northern city, where summer is just five months of bad ice skating, Edmonton has produced a remarkable number of very competitive track and field athletes.
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My memories of the Strand Theatre are so vivid that I cannot believe its been more than 25 years since the grand old house of vaudeville and film was brought down by a misguided quest for progress.
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When Howard & McBride opened their new funeral parlour in July 1929, the Edmonton Bulletin newspaper proclaimed it to be, "the last word in arrangements for comfort."
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It began, like many great things do, with a dream. Thomas Vernon Newlove had a dream to form a schoolboys band that would become one of the finest in the country.
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Fort Saskatchewan is taking the first steps to build a replica of the city’s namesake wooden outpost first erected by the North West Mounted Police in 1875.
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The Edmonton Historical Board has unveiled its 2008 Plaque Awards, paying tribute to nine significant city sites. The Board’s program began in 1975
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In November, the Edmonton Historical Board unveiled its 2008 Plaques Awards, honouring nine significant city buildings. In the second of a three-part series
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In Edmonton’s formative years, before the popularization of the motor vehicle, many members of the workforce preferred to live near their place of employment.
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When Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 blew in 62 years ago, it catapulted the community 20 kilometres south of Edmonton into a time of heady change and unprecedented growth.
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Designed by Canadian Pacific Railway’s engineering department based in Winnipeg, the Strathcona Station was built in 1907 and 1908 by Peter McDermid,
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In the first decade of the 20th century, six men served time in the mayor’s chair. These pioneer politicians ranged from businessmen to lawyers, a school principal,
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Built just after stock markets collapsed and in the early days of the Great Depression, the quaint house at 11220 62 Street survives as one of the few residences constructed in Edmonton during the 1930s.
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Imperial Oil began 1947 with not one producing oil well in the Edmonton area but, by the end of the year, its Leduc-Woodbend field had gushed forth with 400,000 barrels of oil.
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When construction of the Canada Permanent Building was announced in 1910, it was billed as "Edmonton's first fireproof bank." Now, precisely 100 years later,
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Founded in 1911 as manufacturers of high-grade overalls, shirts and pants for settlers, miners and the working men in Western Canada, the Great Western Garment Company ended up operating for 93 years in Edmonton.
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It took more than seven years to complete, and when the magnificent building that is home to Holy Trinity Anglican Church was opened in 1913,
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Built in 1912 and 1913 as the Edmonton Barracks for the North-West Mounted Police, the battlement and brick complex at what is now 9530-9542 101 A Avenue
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The commodious building at the northwest corner of 103rd Street and 102nd Avenue stands as part of one of the most ambitious downtown revitalization projects of the 1970s.
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A 50-year-old apartment building overlooking the North Saskatchewan River Valley is on track to become Edmonton’s youngest protected historic building.
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When it opened its doors in 1934 in the depths of the Great Depression, the Alberta Protestant Home for Children was a little place of hope for needy and forsaken children.
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For more than 25 years, Llanarthney School for Girls was a place for girls to learn the knowledge and etiquette to be sophisticated young ladies.
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A series of photos at the City of Edmonton Archives shows streets and houses in the Cloverdale neighbourhood inundated by water in the great flood of 1915.
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Today it is called the Jasper East Village but a century ago, that part of downtown northeast of Jasper Avenue 97th Street was the heart of the rapidly growing city of Edmonton.
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Constructed in 1909, the Jasper Block was one of the commercial blocks built at the western edge of downtown during the frantic building boom leading up to World War I.
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He has been called Edmonton's pioneer "Dirty Harry." For his part in leading the famous vigilante committee in 1882, Matthew McCauley has forever etched a particular place in our community's history.
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As the University of Alberta examines the feasibility of constructing student residences and a parkade over a chunk of North Garneau it calls the East Campus Village, the history of the imperilled neighbourhood is gaining new attention.
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Two weeks ago, the Edmonton Historical Board unveiled its 2003 plaques recipients. In the second part of our coverage, a look at a significant 1
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Ernest William Morehouse arrived in Edmonton in 1910 and, within three years, had designed some of the citys most remarkable residential architecture.
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According to the Geographic Board of Canada's Place-Names of Alberta, published in 1928, Beverly was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1904 after Beverly township, Wentworth County, Ontario.
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He worked in Edmonton as an architect for barely a decade early in the 20th century, but a lifetime later, Roland W. Lines mark on our city remains indelible.
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Before the railway, oil and gas, lumber and before widespread farming, the steamboats arrived in Edmonton and, for a little place hanging on by its fingernails, they were exactly what it needed.
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When fire swept through the Hecla Block early the morning of May 15th, 1994, it appeared that the three-storey apartments 80 years of life might well be at an end.
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Built in 1935, the Oblats Maison Provinciale (the Oblate Provincial House) provides a connection to the first Catholic missionaries in the Canadian West.
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If you talk with anyone who lived in Edmonton in the 50 years starting in 1930, theyll attest that W.W. Arcade was the ultimate hardware store.
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It may have been called the Fifth Street Bridge when it was built in 1912/13, but when I was a kid, I knew it as "the bridge that made that really cool noise."
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One hundred years after St. Peters Lutheran Church was officially constituted, a building associated with the congregation has been declared a Municipal Historic Resource.
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Constructed 90 years ago by the Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) as a stable and wagon house in the lap of one of Edmontons oldest neighbourhoods
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The Edmonton Bulletin newspaper called it the first tangible acknowledgement from the government the town of Edmonton had any right to exist.
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When King Edward School opened its doors to students March 9th, 1914, the Edmonton Bulletin newspaper was moved to note that its new shower baths "will be a novelty to many of the children, who never before saw hot water come down like rain."
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Its no wonder the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company Warehouse was trumpeted as one of Edmontons most fireproof buildings when it was erected in late 1913.
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In the late 1800s and the early years of the 20th century, Edmontons North Saskatchewan River valley was known more for its industry than its recreational bounty.
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San Francisco has the Golden Gate, Sydney, Australia has the Harbour Bridge, Vancouver has its Lions Gate. Edmonton? Why, weve got the High Level, of course!
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Ninety-five springs ago, the sound of hammers and saws reverberated across the North Saskatchewan River valley as the first houses in a fresh subdivision were taking shape.
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Peggy O’Connor Farnell’s Glenora of the early 20th century was a magical place. “Goodness, it was the edge of town! There were no roads, no services and it was bush from our place west to 142nd Street.”
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From a 16-storey vaulted dome to terrazzo marble flooring, hand-carved oak doors and stained glass windows, the Alberta Legislature is a dazzling piece of architectural theatre.
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Working together and separately, architects David Hardie and John Martland designed some of Edmonton’s most distinguished and distinctive buildings
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One hundred years ago, in the midst of Edmonton’s greatest boom of the first half of the 20th century, construction was underway on a brick school
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One hundred years ago, Edmonton was in the midst of its first great boom of the 20th century. As is happening these days, hundreds of newcomers
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The stone and wood house and log cabin that nestle in the belly of the North Saskatchewan River valley near Fox Drive are intriguing remnants
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Robertson’s Hall, the Thistle Rink, the Empire, the Opera House, the Dominion and the Pantages are all gone, and yet their place in Edmonton theatre history is indelibly etched.
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A century and more ago, proximity to easy transportation and raw materials made the North Saskatchewan River valley ideal for industries such as lumber, coal mining and brick making.
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Named for Strathcona pioneer and school trustee Robert Ritchie, the school at 9750 74 Avenue was opened in January 1913 to serve the area’s rapidly growing student population.
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Fifteen years ago, a century after William Orsman and the Ritchie Brothers built it in 1893, Alberta’s oldest surviving flour mill received a new lease on life.
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Between 1904 and 1914, Edmonton’s population catapulted from 24,000 to 77,000, pushing demand for accommodation for visitors and newcomers.
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On May 12, 1912, the Hudson’s Bay Company placed a good chunk of its considerable Edmonton land holdings on the market. The flood of more than 1,500 lots of prime real estate stoked a building frenzy
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In 1920, with the release of millions of young men from the daily shadow of death brought by the First World War, the world commenced one of its fastest moving decades of the 20th century.
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This year’s Edmonton Historical Board’s Recognition Awards, the 33rd annual, salute three individuals and a trio of organizations for their contribution to building the city and helping its citizens appreciate our precious heritage.
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The neighbourhood known as Edmonton’s original west end was born in the late 19th century, but it was the coming of the rails that really put it on the map.
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When the stock markets crashed on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, speculators lost $9 billion and the shock waves reverberated around the world
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When developer William Magrath paid $20,000 in 1911 to have the city’s streetcar line extended east on Pine Avenue to service his exclusive new community of The Highlands,
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Eva McKitrick’s connection to Edmonton goes back to the community’s formative years in the 19th century and now her legacy is reaching into the 21st century.
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One hundred years ago, October 30, 1908, the Edmonton Radial Railway commenced operations with a modest fleet of two electrically-powered streetcars built by the Ottawa Car Company Ltd.
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Built in the days after the First World War, the house that is now Strathcona County’s centre for arts and culture was built by Maurice and Eliza Smeltzer.
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Built by coal miner Otto Reiher in 1937, this little cottage at 11845 52nd Street offers an excellent example of a typical building of its time and place.
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Built in 1946 in the International style of architecture, this rectangular, flat-roofed Glenora home was the long time home for the family of Louis Hyndman,
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For more than 30 years, the Palace of Sweets was a place of confectionery heaven. The retail candy store opened in the midst of the Second World War in the historic Chisholm Block,
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Edmonton has been home to Muslim citizens since the beginning of the 20th century and, in 1931, the Census of Canada registered 645 Muslim residents.
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In 1911, pioneer Strathcona pharmacist Hugh Duncan commissioned local architect and builder John Sanford to design and construct him a house on 104th Street,
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Built in three phases, in 1925, 1931 and 1946, St. Francis of Assisi Friary and St. Anthony’s College provide a physical connection to the Franciscans’ mission which started operations in Edmonton more than 100 years ago.
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Built in 1922 in the modest Craftsman style, the house at 11530 95 A Street is an excellent Edmonton example of a 1920's middle income single family dwelling.
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If city council had listened to a consultant’s advice nearly 40 years ago, tens of thousands of people would be stuck with riding buses or navigating impossibly congested roads.
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In the first dozen years of the 20th century, Edmonton went from no bridges to five river crossings. Those five bridges, opened between 1900 and 1913
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The story of McDougall United Church stretches back to the earliest days of Methodist history in 1840, when Reverend Robert Rundle arrived in Edmonton.
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When Montreal grain merchant and entrepreneur James Carruthers developed the Groat Estates area starting in 1905, he placed a caveat on it
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Eighty years ago this week, veteran bush pilot “Wop” May and his partner Victor Horner flew into the annals of history. On January 2, 1929,
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Helen LaRose and June Honey were the lifeblood of the City of Edmonton Archives for 20 years, shepherding the facility from 1973 through 1993,
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In the early days of the 20th century, Saskatchewan Drive was an exclusive address, and it was where Strathcona’s elite preferred to locate their homes.
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On February 21st, alumni from as far back as the 1920s joined Mayor Stephen Mandel, Alberta Education Minister Dave Hancock and many others to mark the 100th anniversary of Norwood School.
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When fire struck the Ramsey Building last Tuesday, March 24th, it threatened two significant remaining links to the city’s pre-Depression past.
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The Highlands house named for community leader Margaret Marshall was completed in 1916, one of the few built in Edmonton during the First World War.
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Now it is the western flank of what is considered the heart of the city. But 100 years ago, the area around 124th Street and Jasper Avenue was Edmonton's original west end.
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While Alberta was in its infancy a little more than 100 years ago, the automobile was being born - a marvellous medley of moving, whirring and wheezing parts
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Built around 1909, the George Harcourt Residence was one of the first residences to be constructed in the University of Alberta area neighbourhood which came to be known in 1910 as Windsor Park.
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Members of the Edmonton Board of Trade decided in early 1892 that Edmonton should be incorporated as a town, and so in February of that year, the hamlet with its population of 700 did just that.
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War was over, and, with the release of millions of soldiers from the daily shadow of death brought by the First World War, the world commenced one of its fastest moving decades of the 20th century.
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The city is moving to protect the Garneau Theatre, one of Edmonton’s great surviving examples of early modernism, the movement that gave rise to Moderne or art deco architecture.
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The stock market crash of October 1929 pulled the rug out from under the economy, and the commodity-dependent Canadian west felt the impact immediately.
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In the depths of the Great Depression, Edmontonians looked to one of the city’s most unrestrained characters as the man to get the community back on its feet.
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One hundred years ago, a blacksmith named Edward Looby constructed a building at 10336 Jasper Avenue. But the Looby Block’s connection with Edmonton history
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Alex Decoteau lived barely 30 years, yet he ran up an amazing record of achievement, contribution and sacrifice. He was one of the city’s earliest track champions,
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Fifty years ago, construction began on Edmonton’s Queen Elizabeth Planetarium, the first in the country. Now, the circular building in Coronation Park
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Known best as one of the founders of country music radio giant CFCW in 1954, Hal Yerxa has a place in history for being part of another remarkable day in history.
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Started in 1912 and opened in 1913, the Edmonton Arena began life as the Edmonton Stock Pavilion, a place to show horses and exhibit livestock.
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Built in 1912 as the Edmonton Stock Pavilion, and pressed into service as a hockey rink when the Thistle burned down in 1913, the building that came to be known as the Edmonton Gardens
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Last month, the Edmonton Historical Board unveiled its 2009 Plaques Awards, honouring four significant city buildings, along with three neighbourhoods.
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Later this month, Dayanandan and Selvanayigee Naidoo are planning to open their new restaurant, Narayanni’s, in the former home of Arndt’s Machine Shop
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Fort Edmonton Park has announced plans to build a scaled-down replica of the Capitol Theatre, one of Edmonton’s most beloved film houses of the 20th century.
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Constructed in 1913 by Strathcona businessman William Henry Sheppard, the Gothic-style beer castle that most recently served as the Molson Brewery is a richly historic part of Edmonton.
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His name was John Michaels, but everybody knew him as Mike. He was only ten years old when he began selling papers on New York’s Lower East Side in 1901.
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For 70 years, Mike's News Stand was an Edmonton institution. For most of that time, it operated from a storefront at 10062 Jasper Avenue,
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It doesn’t take long digging into Edmonton’s past to uncover some garbage. In the city’s formative years, discarded goods were often dumped
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When Edmonton was just a toddler of a town, the discards of the day were dumped right next to the river at the bottom of Grierson Hill between 94th and 98th Streets.
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Built in 1901/02 in the relatively rare homestead style, the house at 10008 84th Avenue is named for John Thomas Radford, its first owner.
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Built in 1926 and clad with rare clinker bricks, the Frederick S. Jones Residence is a distinctive Craftsman style bungalow in Edmonton’s Calder neighbourhood at 13067 115th Street.
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Long before shopping malls and suburbia, the heart of the city was Edmonton’s preferred place to pause for a meal and a cup of coffee or two.
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Like a sonic boom, the age of cinema roared into Edmonton in the late 1920s with the coming of sound. Citizens flocked by the thousands to watch – and hear! – the “talkies.”
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The REALTORS® Association of Edmonton is partnering with the Edmonton and District Historical Society (EDHS) to present Doors Open Edmonton.
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Originally known as Fourth Street, 104th Street became the heart of Edmonton’s warehouse district after the Hudson’s Bay Company put the remainder of its land holdings
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Resource-rich and bursting with entrepreneurial opportunity, early Edmonton was a place where settlers came to start a new life and make their fortune.
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Next year marks the 100th anniversary for Queen Alexandra School. The venerable building, at 7730 106th Street, opened its doors in 1906 as Duggan Street School.
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The Morning Bulletin reported it was a beautiful autumn afternoon when a monument "erected by the Beverly veterans institute in the memory of their comrades fallen in the war"
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It has stood on the steep slope for 100 years and, even as the city has grown outward and upward around it, the red brick house has survived.
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In a 1927 tribute to Frank Oliver, the Edmonton Bulletin offered, There is no doubt that (he) can be fairly reckoned as the most outstanding pioneer of Alberta.
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In the days before in-home washers and dryers, many Edmonton residents got their clothes cleaned by laundries which offered pick-up and delivery services.
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Jesse Locksley Jones was one of Edmonton's most accomplished athletes and when he qualified for the 1923 Olympic Games in Paris, it was a huge achievement.
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The front page of the Morning Bulletin September 16, 1919 featured a remarkable image. “First aerial photograph taken in Edmonton,” it read.
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It is named for an Edmonton entrepreneur and city councillor, but Grierson Hill owes its beginnings to events more than 35,000 years ago.
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Few Edmonton buildings can match the history, the impact or the long record of service of the Prince of Wales Armoury. Built in 1914-15 on a 17-acre site as the Edmonton Drill Hall to meet the needs of the infantry,
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Some of the most interesting trails of discovery writing this column every week begin with questions from readers. Like a query from Michelene Day, who wrote: Did you ever research an old building located on 97 Street and 107 Avenue?
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The nearly hundred year old house that stands at 11217 97th Street is an unusual one for Edmonton, built atop a stone foundation and with a widows walk, two-toned brick and double gable dormers.
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I have a lasting image from my childhood of the lady who used to run the Roxy Theatre and who, at Saturday matinees, was a force to be feared.
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The name Charles Mathers may not be familiar to you, but you’ve probably seen his work. He was one of Edmonton’s earliest professional photographers.
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Built by an early Edmonton blacksmith and a man called Edmonton’s “Merchant Prince,” the Kelly and Ramsey Buildings offer a fascinating connection to the formative years of the city.
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It went up in the depths of the Great Depression, an opulent new building constructed to provide room for a rapidly growing government centre.
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The City of Edmonton has added 23 more to the number of public and privately owned buildings proudly adorned with plaques from the Edmonton Historical Board.
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Concordia University College has come a long way from a place originally intended to prepare men for preaching and instruction at Lutheran churches and schools.
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It’s been 60 years since a group of men, working in a windswept field just south of today’s Devon, pulled the cork out of Central Alberta’s bottle of oil prosperity.
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In Edmonton and Strathcona’s formative years late in the 19th century, thousands of newcomers poured in, earnestly seeking a better life,
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The lure of land to farm, resources to mine and jobs to hold propelled Edmonton into a frantic period of growth in the early years of the 20th century.
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One hundred years ago, the Canadian Pacific Railway was building its new station in Strathcona, which it had decided to turn into a dominant divisional point.
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The Edmonton Public Library has assembled a terrific website called “Edmonton History.” The site at www.epl.ca/EdmontonPortal includes stories
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Propelled by agricultural expansion, a burgeoning commercial aviation industry and the discovery of oil in the Northwest Territories and the Viking gas field,
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When the influenza epidemic that was rippling around the world reached Edmonton in 1918, it wasn’t long before the hospitals in the city were bursting at the seams.
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Dame Eliza Chenier co-owned the Strathcona Hotel between 1912 and 1923, along with Joseph A. Beauchamp, and the pair also shared a duplex at 9926 and 9928 112th Street.
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It’s the Glenrose Rehabilitation Research Centre now, but when the two-storey brick building at the corner of 101st Street and 112th Avenue was constructed 95 years ago,
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It’s startling to think it was nearly 35 years ago that the city selected the Cloverdale flats as the location for the Muttart Conservatory.
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“I am going to take your daddy away across the sea,” begins a letter from Lt. Col. William A. Griesbach to Edna Clarke, daughter of Capt. Edward Douglas Clarke.
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Not every house is connected with a momentous event, famous individual or distinguished architect. Some houses are just time capsules of their day
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I’m often asked which stories are my favourites from the more than 2,000 columns I’ve written in Real Estate Weekly over the last 20 years.
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With a rich connection to French culture and the Roman Catholic Church, the story of Morinville could be as much a part of Quebec than north central Alberta.
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When the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company completed its line from Calgary to a terminus south of the banks of the North Saskatchewan River in August 1891,
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Situated along Westmount’s magnificent tree-lined 125th Street, the Charles Barker Residence was built during the height of Edmonton’s greatest boom of the early 20th century.
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Condensing the long and rich history of the first 100 years of public transit in Edmonton into a single volume is no easy undertaking, but Ken Tingley has the job just about complete.
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The beginning of the end for Edmonton’s beloved streetcars came in the 1930s, when Edmonton’s transit system, then called the Edmonton Radial Railway,
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Edmonton historian Ken Tingley has spent the better part of 2008 researching and writing the history of the first 100 years of public transit in the city.
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The William O’Leary Residence, on a rectangular lot at 10544 126th Street, has been designated a Municipal Historic Resource in recognition of its historical and architectural significance.
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In the first dozen years of the 20th century, Edmonton experienced a bridge-building spree like is hadn’t seen before, and hasn’t seen since.
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When World War II ended in 1945, life in Edmonton began to change dramatically. Booms in babies, petroleum and newcomers quickly transformed Edmonton
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It’s a treasure trove of stories just waiting to be told. Down at the City of Edmonton Archives, a binder of “firsts,” compiled over the years,
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When it was officially opened on September 22, 1960, the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium was Canada’s first. It remained the only municipal facility of its type in the country until 1966
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Built in 1911 by a liquor and cigar seller named John B. Mercer, the warehouse at 10355-63 104th Street has had a fascinating first century of life.
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When fire broke out in the historic Hub News Store building early in the morning of April 26th, it ravaged Edmonton's oldest surviving general store.
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The words come as a jolt, the photos a precious snapshot of a time that Canada was at war, turned upside down and inside out by events so far away
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There are thousands of them around the city, but we don’t think of them as historic or particularly remarkable. Yet, the buildings that were constructed during Edmonton’s largest boom of the 20th century,
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Eglise Catholique St. Joachim is considered the mother church of all other Catholic churches in Edmonton and, once you know the history of the place,
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When Gustave Bergman arrived in Beverly in 1912, there was little more than cart tracks and homesteader houses scattered like seeds in the wind.
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Under Jubilee Park in the heart of the Beacon Heights community resides the last vestiges of coal mining in Beverly and one of its most colourful stories.
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More than 100 years have passed since Edmonton's first library was informally established and, during the passage of the last century, houses of books have come and gone.
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Walking past the former home of the Walk-Rite Style Shoppe, you could be forgiven for thinking that it is a 1940s art-deco Modern style building.
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War loomed on the horizon and uncertain times lay ahead but when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Edmonton on June 2, 1939, they gave our city a reason for jubilation.
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Edmonton is booming now, and a half century ago, it was in the midst of another period of rapid growth. Beginning with the 1947 discovery of vast oil reserves under Edmonton’s feet,
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Growth propelled Edmonton eagerly into the 1960s and, like the city itself, the Edmonton Real Estate Board was in need of more space for its roster of services
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It’s not there anymore, but for a group of young men in 1934, the Beverly Skating Rink at the northwest corner of 118th Avenue and 40th Street was truly a rink of dreams.
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Last week, I took a first look at some of the oldest buildings featured on the Edmonton Public Library’s terrific website called “Edmonton History.”
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Between Edmonton’s incorporation as a city in 1904 and 1912, the population catapulted from 8,350 to more than 50,000, as newcomers poured into the region.
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When the Hudson’s Bay Company put its considerable Edmonton land holdings on the market May 13th, 1912, it gave another shot of adrenalin to a real estate market that was already in hyper-drive.
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In these days of drive through fast food, it’s perhaps a little difficult to imagine driving up to a restaurant, being served right in your car and dining off the dashboard.
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The house John Robert McIntosh and Grace McBean built at 10325 Villa Avenue in one of Edmonton’s most exclusive enclaves of the early 20th century
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First by horses, then by “horseless carriage,” and later by truck, the halcyon days of door-to-door delivery lasted nearly the first 70 years of the 20th century in Edmonton.
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A tribute to one of our greatest historians
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September 02, 2010
Vol. 28, Iss. 35
Advertised Listings
New Listings
832
Total in Issue
1620
Mortgage Rates
1 Year Closed
3.23
2 Year Closed
3.6
3 Year Closed
3.82
5 Year Closed
4.46
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The Edmonton Real Estate Weekly® is published every Thursday by the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton. It contains feature articles of general interest as well as real estate advertisements and listings for Edmonton and North-central Alberta. Cover to cover, each new issue is full of information for home buyers including open houses and the most recent new MLS property listings.
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