Edmonton was one of the last major cities in Canada to build a monument remembering the Great War. Its citizens banded together to change that — the memorial they erected is a solemn and dignified cairn for its war-dead.

This small Depression-era school was twenty years in the making.

That December 10,000 Albertans gathered to protest the government’s handling of the Great Depression — it became “the biggest single manifestation of class conflict in Alberta during the entirety of the 1930s.”

Out of Town Distractions:

Unemployed labourers from Edmonton and Northern Alberta built this make-work mountain pass in Jasper National Park.

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

This Depression-era make-work project — Frankensteined together using spare girders and old streetcar rails — is counting the days until it’s replaced.

Accusations of underpaid labour haunt this unassuming Depression make-work project.

The Great Depression became a golden age for Edmonton’s cyclists. Along dusty city streets and gravel backroads, three clubs vied for civic and provincial championship titles. None were as successful as the Edmonton Cycling Club.

Before Kind Ice Cream brought fame to this Highlands corner, another business did: Stone’s Meats.

Edmonton’s “stone frigate” lived up to its motto, A Campis ad Maria — “from the prairies to the sea” — during the Second World War. Over its course this inland ship trained 3,582 sailors.

It may be small, but 124th Street’s “stalwart brick castle” is one of the only reminders of Edmonton’s long-abandoned streetcar system.

Our little slice of California, with its bright stucco and red tiles, was a curio to anyone who passed by and unique in a way most Edmonton buildings couldn’t dream of being. Now another glass high-rise will replace it.

Building a make-work road over the sandy hoodoos of Dawson Park sounded simple enough. Instead it resulted in Council in-fighting, five years of unending construction, and political suicide.

St. Joachim and Edmonton Municipal Cemeteries are the resting place of many of Edmonton’s founding figures.

Garneau's little yellow house is a good representative example of a popular inter-war architectural style.

The story of modern-day Edmonton is intrinsically linked with ‘the Bay’. Their former downtown store serves as a monument to their role in building the city.