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Ever wonder why Edmonton had a Whale Society?
Join @letsfindoutyeg tomorrow night at the @YEGArchives to uncover the forgotten history of the Whale Society of Edmonton.
Limited seats remain! Grab yours before they're gone: https://edmonton.taproot.events/calendar/2026/03/03/lets-find-out-about-the-whale-society-of-edmonton
What’s hidden in the @YEGArchives? 🔍📜
On March 3, we’re cracking open the files of the Whale Society of Edmonton. Discover the fan art and advocacy that drove prairie-dwellers to fight for the giants of the sea. 🐳
The Jasper Place Hotel is burning. The fire started in the morning of February 19. I took these in the afternoon. It was empty for years, but has a colourful history. The hotel opened in 1952 and was renamed in 1967 as The Klondiker, before later on being known as the Jasper Place Hotel. Read more at the Jasper Place Community History Project: https://jasperplacehistory.org/the-klondiker/
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#yeg #stonyplainroad #jasperplace #yeghistory #yegwestend
Inside the Rossdale Power Plant | @taprootyeg
https://edmonton.taproot.news/stories/2026/inside-the-rossdale-power-plant
What’s hidden in the City of Edmonton Archives? 🔍📜
Discover the fan art, letters, and advocacy that drove a group of prairie-dwellers to fight for the giants of the sea.
#yeg #Edmonton #yegevents #yeglocal #yeghistory #LetsFindOutYEG #LivePodcast #ExploreEdmonton
“When she talked to you, you had a sense of being loved,” says Stephanie Burlie, Mary’s daughter. “She would always refer to you as ‘baby.’ It took all of the stress and worries away; you felt safe. I think from those interactions people began to call her the Black Angel.”
The Black Angel of Boyle Street: the living legacy of Mary Burlie (Transforming Edmonton)
https://transforming.edmonton.ca/the-living-legacy-of-mary-burlie/
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Interested in leading an Edmonton Jane's Walk this year?
Join our virtual info session to learn more.
February 5, 7:30pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89209112127?pwd=L1s0KkhplbVVSiCZEITslJutsoY6pb.1
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"Edmonton’s first Chinese settler was a man named Chung Kee, also known as Chung Gee and John Kee. On May 26th, 1890, he arrived by stagecoach from Calgary, accompanied by a man generally assumed to be his brother, named Chung Yan. Chung Kee started a laundry at 428 Jasper Avenue (now 9725 Jasper Avenue)."
Chinese Hand Laundries: A History of The First Chinese Entrepreneurs in Edmonton (ECAMP)
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/12/03/chinese-hand-laundries-a-history-of-the-first-chinese-entrepreneurs-in-edmonton/
"Forced child labour was not an accident of the system—it was its foundation. For over seventy-five years, Youville relied on the unpaid labour of Indigenous children. They scrubbed floors, hauled water, wrung laundry through heavy mangles, farmed, carried honey buckets, and cooked. [...] The work was also meant to teach obedience and enforce control."
ECAMP: Child Labour at the St. Albert Youville Indian Residential School
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/09/30/more-than-half-a-day-child-labour-at-the-st-albert-youville-indian-residential-school/
The year was 1910. Edmonton City Council was troubled.
"Becoming alarmed over the citizens' backsliding, it closed down [a business] where rumours said deep and mysterious evils were encouraged..."
ECAMP: Happyland
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/07/02/happyland/
"[Lewis Block] features a 25-foot public art installation of Joseph Lewis in a red canoe - dubbed The Steersman. The building is named after Lewis, a “highly accomplished” canoe man with the Hudson’s Bay company in the early 1800s.
Lewis is believed to have lived as a free Black man decades before slavery was abolished."
CTV Edmonton: New Stadium Yards apartment and art installation honours Black fur trader
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/new-stadium-yards-apartment-and-art-installation-honours-black-fur-trader/
"You fought for women’s right to vote, to pursue higher education, and to combine a career and marriage. You debunked the myth that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote because their literacy rate was lower than men’s. You used your position as education convenor for the National Council of Women to promote lifelong learning."
ECAMP: “More than a prize scholar or bookworm”: The Leadership and Legacy of Dr. Geneva Misener
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/05/20/more-than-a-prize-scholar-or-bookworm-the-leadership-and-legacy-of-dr-geneva-misener/
I know a lot of white colonizers look the same (including fictional ones), but you can't tell me that this isn't Kier Egan.
Great but difficult read from ECAMP.
As important as it is to know and share history worth celebrating, now more than ever we must remember the ugly parts of our history too.
Edmonton, Alberta, and Canada are built on a whole lot of racism by a whole lot of racist people. We must learn and acknowledge that before we can hope to pretend we're past it (we aren't, not even close).
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/05/01/sustained-opposition-to-black-immigration/
"It is hard to believe that even the greatest March Madness teams could ever compile a winning record superior to that of the Edmonton Grads.
The Grads took part in more than 400 games between 1915 and 1940 and lost only 20, giving them a win ratio in excess of 95%"
The Guardian: Were the all-conquering Edmonton Grads the most dominant team of all time?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/24/were-the-all-conquering-edmonton-grads-the-most-dominant-team-of-all-time
How A-Channel TV workers fought for dignity and a first contract
"In December 2024, ECAMP presented a story from a former A-Channel employee who decided to cross the picket line during a strike there. Adrian Pearce – a former employee who helped lead their union local through the strike – submitted this story in response."
ECAMP: Station of Broken Promises
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/03/25/station-of-broken-promises/
"The Laura Lindsay show was the first woman-to-woman program in the province designed to provide homemaking ideas, recipes, fashion and sewing tips, as well as interviews with interesting people, especially performers passing through. [...] Laura showed “There was life beyond home and children.”"
ECAMP: Laura Lindsay, First Lady of Daytime TV in Alberta from 1955-68
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/03/11/laura-lindsay-first-lady-of-daytime-tv-in-alberta-from-1955-68/
"In 1932, Edmonton had the best women’s basketball team in the world: the Edmonton Commercial Graduates. The Grads had been national champs since 1922, North American champs since 1923, and World champs since 1924. Teams wishing to challenge for the North American title had to travel to Edmonton for a two-game, total-points series."
ECAMP: Women Wanted to Work, and Win: The Grads Take Flight
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/02/11/women-wanted-to-work-and-win-the-grads-take-flight/
#yeg #yegHistory #yegHeritage #basketball #WomensBasketball #WomensSports
January 30, 1912 and a Eastern 'Pipe Dream' Describes Vintage Edmonton:
"In 1853, the Braroes shipping furs from Fort Edmonton combined their voices to argue with their superiors. It was called a Combination: not quite a strike, not quite a mutiny, but very much a show of strength and unity."
ECAMP: The Company and the Combination: Collective Bargaining at the River’s Edge
https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/01/28/the-company-and-the-combination-collective-bargaining-at-the-rivers-edge/
January 29, 1976 and Mayor Terry Cavanaugh Gives Gordie Howe A Farewell Elbow at Vintage Edmonton:
January 28, 1942 and Chester Warren Johnson Is Sentenced To Be Hanged at Vintage Edmonton:
January 27, 1936 and Theatres Will Be Closed Until 6PM Tuesday at Vintage Edmonton:
January 26, 1963 and Peace River Television Goes Live Thursday at Vintage Edmonton:
January 25, 1988 and Richard Simmons offers Hell On Earth in Londonerry Mall at Vintage Edmonton:
January 24, 1948 and A Hospital Serves Victims Of Alcohol at Vintage Edmonton:
January 23, 1917 and a G.T.P. Engine Crashes Into The Street at Vintage Edmonton:
A fence now surrounds the former Royal Alberta Museum in Glenora. Follow the link to help #savetheoldRAM #yeghistory https://www.facebook.com/HeritageForward/posts/pfbid0XtbnKVPMqKP16B235TfYyiZTC33NVn7Xf55CbDZn2hUBTTNvm11PDpJcHsCgJkowl
January 22, 1955 and Lorne Davis Makes His Debut at Vintage Edmonton:
January 21, 1938 and it's Skating And Bingo at Vintage Edmonton:
January 20, 1917 and Albert Brown Will Be Here at Vintage Edmonton:
January 15, 1958 and Fill Your Home With Music at Vintage Edmonton:
January 14, 1982 and it's The Charts at Vintage Edmonton:
January 9, 1971 and it's The Only Girl Around At A 300 Man Stag at Vintage Edmonton:
January 1,1887 and it's The Local at Vintage Edmonton:
December 31,1989 and the First 1980's Baby Is A Child Of His Times at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-31-1989.html
December 29,1941 and it's The New Year's Eve Frolics at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-29-1941.html
December 28,1900 and it's The Local at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-28-1900.html
December 26,1974 and a Family Is Reunited After 45 Years at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-26-1974.html
December 24,1952 and it's Your Christmas Eve/Christmas Day Radio Schedule at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-24-1952.html
December 17,1938 and Santa Suggests at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-17-1938.html
December 16,1943 and it's a Fright To The Finish at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-16-1943.html
December 15,1983 and Cabbage Patch Kids Are For Sale at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-15-1983.html
December 14,1979 and it's The Models And The Smarties at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2024/12/december-14-1979.html
December 6, 1930 and Decorate And Electrify For Christmas at Vintage Edmonton:
December 4, 1911 and it's a Shirtwaist Dance at Vintage Edmonton: