City of Edmonton archivists are launching our first edmonton.ca virtual exhibit on April 25, the first of many! We’re featuring Ella May Walker, a musician, artist, author and advocate for Edmonton’s history. We chose Ella May Walker for our first virtual exhibit for several reasons; She was a really interesting and active lady We have [...]
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I’d like to share some exciting international archives news; I’ve got my archivist hat firmly on for this post! Recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, better known as UNESCO, formally adopted the International Council on Archives’ (ICA) Universal Declaration on Archives. The Declaration was first written by archivists in Quebec. It was [...]
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It’s October, the happy month of fall colours, Thanksgiving and Hallowe’en! Since photographs are such an important part of my blog posts, I thought I’d go into a bit more detail about photographs in archives, how we take care of them, how we reproduce them, how they are used, etc., and have a bit of [...]
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This is my final post exploring the student newspapers created at the Belmont School in the 1890s. I’m continuing my exploration by looking at the School itself. Thanks to all of you who have followed me this far! If you’re new to the series, see my first post for the background. First of all, Belmont [...]
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My summer fun post became a two-parter, so if you were looking for the dogs in my last post and could only find one it’s because one of them is in these photographs. I apologize for any confusion caused. The first post was all about pools because of my love of water but, apart from [...]
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