Edmonton and District Historical Society

Smoky Lake County Council and the Smoky Lake County Regional Heritage Board are leading an effort to designate the North Saskatchewan River as a Canadian Heritage River. If you would like to add your voice, visit the link below to complete the survey before April 30th! More info: http://www.smokylakecounty.ab.ca/p/canadian-heritage-river-

Please join us via Zoom for our April Speaker Series with speaker, Darren Dalgleish, President and CEO of Fort Edmonton Management Company. Our Annual General Meeting will take place after the presentation. For more information or to register, please visit https://historicedmonton.ca/edh/john-rowand-night-agm-2021/ #yeg #yeghistory #yegheritage #fortedmontonpark #agm

Here’s a recap of our March Speaker Series! #yeghistory #yegheritage #history #historianlaureate

Our March Speaker Series presentation which featured Amber Paquette, Edmonton's Historian Laureate is now available to view on YouTube! https://youtu.be/CwtfGQlWXhw

Want to become a member? Memberships are now available to purchase online! #yeghistory #yegheritage #history #membershipmatters

Please check out this 4 minute video: An Edmonton Christmas in 1879 #yeg #yeghistory #yegheritage #Christmas

NEW ECAMP STORIES THE HISTORY OF WEST RITCHIE dotted with farm implement shops, grain elevators, and mills. Indeed, as pressure to stake one’s claim near the civic centre grew, residences leapt over the tracks into West Ritchie.... In this new ECAMP story, author Cooper Csorba takes us on a journey back in time exploring West Ritchie. Once home to such businesses as the lamented Minchau Blacksmith shop, the area of West Ritchie still holds onto German beginnings through many shops, residences, and places of worship which still exhibit the architecture of another time. Image: The exterior of the Minchau Blacksmith Shop on 101 Street and 82 Avenue taken in 1938. Photo courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Alberta, reference number A5681.

With many Edmontonians being increasingly driven to stay at home this winter, it is perhaps timely to explore one or more of ECAMP's curated collections. The collection Navigating Our Climate: Outdoor Recreation in YEGprovides potential escape from the current realities, through stories about winter mountaneering, skiing, hockey, summer river cruises, and picnics. Sons of Norway(Lawrence Herzog), McKernan's Lost Lake(Katherine Koller), Big Island: A Window Into the Past (Peggy Donnelly), The Good Old Maple Leaf Athletic Club (Moly Milosovic), and Adventures of the Lost Alpine Huts(PearlAnn Reichwin) each offer unique perspectives of the way Edmontonians experience the outdoors. Image: Ski jump run, Edmonton, circa 1914. Image courtesy of the Glenbow Archives NA-1328-2609.

Check out and share this video, produced in Edmonton, which gives new voice to John McCrae’s words. #yeg #flandersfields #remember

The Archives has a new podcast. This one is with Edmonton's first City planner, Noel Dant. #yeghistory #yegheritage #podcast

Join us tomorrow night! #yeghistory #yegheritage #yeg #movember

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Need help with your Christmas Shopping? Looking for a great Christmas present? Or maybe you are looking for reading material to help get you through a long cold winter? Do you have connections to southern Alberta or simply want to know more about this part of the province? Lethbridge Historical Society books make great presents for the history lovers in your family.... There are books on many amazing subjects. You can check out all of the available books in the link below, but some of our best sellers include: Canadian Pacific Railway High Level Bridge at Lethbridge the story of Canada’s largest railway structure We Don’t Talk About Those Women the history of Lethbridge’s Red Light District Plants and the Blackfoot discover the various uses of southern Alberta plants Sweetgrass Hills a natural and cultural history of the Sweetgrass Hills Squirrel Whiskey, Mr R. and Prohibition in Southern Alberta My Side of Town remembrances of Lethbridge’s north side along 13 Street North And many more. Our books are simple to purchase Buy On-Line You can purchase our books from our online store and we’ll mail them out to you. https://www.lethbridgehistory.org/store

EDHS’s very own Christine Prokop is presenting at the Edmonton Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society’s AGM on Thursday, November 26th! #yeg #yeghistory #yegheritage #AGM #albertagenealogicalsociety

The Shop-Easy Grocery store at 11606 129 Ave is a simple example of an art-deco grocery store built in 1948. Independently owned, often found on streetcar route...s, and a meeting place for neighbours to gossip, these stores were more than a place to purchase food. At one time, over 100 of these businesses could be found in Edmonton, but with the arrival of big box stores and supermarkets, they disappeared. Let’s be sure to remember our local and independently owned businesses in times like these. #YEGheritage #yeg #edmontonlocalbusiness https://www.edmontonsarchitecturalheritage.ca//shop-easy-/