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Do you remember what life was like before computers? That far away time when, if you wanted to communicate with someone you would call them, or more likely write them a letter? Though it may seem like a lifetime, it wasn’t that long ago that the main form of communication between the City and the [...]

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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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Regarded as one of the best municipal courses in the world, Riverside Golf Course is celebrating 60 years of exceptional golf played alongside river valley creatures and ball-thieving squirrels. Officially opened in 1951, Riverside was built on the site of the old Dawson Mine which provided Edmonton’s coal for many years. In fact, many of [...]

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Have you ever wondered what goes on at the City of Edmonton Archives? Or even what an archives is? Have you ever seen a neat old building and wanted to learn more about it? Or wondered why City planners decided to build a bridge or a road where they did, or what City Council was [...]

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Welcome to the second part of my post on the people behind the Belmont School newspapers. If you want some background on the newspapers see my first post in the series. DISCLAIMER: As I noted in my last post, this is by no means a thoroughly researched history of these people. I’m sure I could [...]

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