Sex-work, backroom deals, claims of conspiracy, and one of Edmonton’s most colourful characters led to an all-out brawl between an Alderman and Mayor during a meeting of City Council in August 1914.

Singing songs and carrying banners, the Industrial Workers of the World, a radical American union, helped organize Edmonton’s forgotten labourers for a strike in September 1912.

Relocated to Fort Edmonton Park in 1992, this California-style bungalow is a good representative example of the Craftsman style.

Named for a pioneering Baptist missionary, this McCauley church is one of Edmonton’s most unique.

This humble property, demolished in 2022, represented a more modest class of home and occupant for the once-opulent Highlands neighbourhood.

This small building, once home to meatpackers and stockyard labourers, will soon give way to a highway overpass.

Government cuts and University policies have condemned one important piece of Alberta’s agricultural heritage to the waste basket of history.

Three homes and three stories from Central Edmonton’s Queen Mary Park.

Once home to a Great War amputee, Jewish-Romanian furriers, and an Order of Canada recipient, this unassuming Oliver Foursquare is living on bought time.

Unequivocally Edmonton’s most handsome pre-war church, this building “conveys the impression of solemnity and sacred suggestion.”

Built in 1912, the Stein Residence is a good representative example of higher-class housing styles in Westmount, an area that “developed a reputation as the ‘place to be for the up and coming.”

Built to house luxurious apartments, the Gibbard Block now houses offices and a slew of local eateries.

Alberta’s oldest purpose-built armoury was once home to mounted infantry. Saved from demolition, it’s now home to a non-profit.

This opulent home is one of some two-dozen pre-war mansions in the Groat Estates, a Glenora-like enclave east of the Groat Ravine.

Central Edmonton’s brick castle is a testament to the Great War and its impact on the city.

In our rush to save the Ring Houses we’ve forgotten two others…

Designed by a Washington-based architect, and copied from a Spokane-based design, this striking Great War-era skyscraper represents Alberta’s best application of the Chicago School Style.

In a penny wise, pound foolish move, the University of Alberta demolishes its last tangible link to the campus’ humble beginnings.