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List of Contributors
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- A "healer" in Edmonton in the 1930s: The story of Howard Kelly
- A child's perspective on The Hunger March, Edmonton, 1932 by Ann Krahulec
- A Christmas Baby, by Johanna Wishart; An Edmonton mother's memoir
- A Cow Roamed the Hudson's Bay Reserve, by Helen Richards [Norwood memoir]
- A ghost story from Mill Creek, by Jean Connor
- A ghost! -- A story from the Calder Railway Yards
- A Greek-Canadian story from the 1940s: Our family of families, by Nicholas Spillios
- A hot air balloon ride over Edmonton: a 78th birthday present, "Up, Up and Away!" by Beatrice Daily Huser
- A Journey Into Hope by Aliyah M. Shivji
- A Librarian from Kazakhstan by Alla Nejat
- A man who worked to build modern Edmonton: A profile of Heinz Rueck, construction worker and contractor
- A nurse's tribute to Edmonton: 1952-1972, by Isabel Pangrass
- A nursing student's memoir: The Royal Alexandra Hospital, Class of '56, by Dorothy Sande
- A pioneer family's story about early Edmonton: We Never Locked Our Doors, by Kathleen Rutledge
- A shopping story: Nylon stockings come to Edmonton, 1940s, by Audrey Engley
- A short and tall story of pioneer Ismaili Muslims to Edmonton
- A Sleigh Ride to Granny McDonald's, Calder neighbourhood, Edmonton, Christmas 1944, Gwen McDonald Halabisky
- A Snowball Encounter: Edmonton boys vs. U.S. soldiers, 1943, by Harley Reid
- A story about Edmonton's "Rat Hole" -- a memorable Edmonton Underpass, by Nan Morrison
- A story of connection: Overseas parcels, from Edmonton to the United Kingdom, 1930 to 2000, by Phyllis Ellis
- A Street Urchin in Downtown Edmonton, around 1930, by Ralph Ethier
- A Student Nurse's Escapade at University of Alberta Hospital, early 1950s, by Bess Marshall
- A suspension: The pledge of allegiance controversy in Edmonton schools, 1942, by Harley Reid
- A Teacup Reading at the Silk Hat restaurant, 1941by Donalda Lloyd
- A tribute to an African-American pioneer in Amber Valley, Willie Mae Hamilton, 1902-2003, by Myrna Wisdom
- Alex Decoteau Historical Timeline, contribution from Izola Mottershead, niece of Alex DeCoteau
- Alex Decoteau: A Tribute to a Cree Athlete, Police Officer and War Hero, by Alex Latta, his nephew
- Alex Decoteau:More notes on an Edmonton champion, by Alex Latta
- Alex Mair: Edmonton's champion storyteller, by Bruce Ibsen
- Alf Hutchings'Family Story, 1885-1913
- Alfred and Agnes Hutchings Come West, 1875-1905
- All Those Other Guys and Me; An Edmonton boy's encounters with the Depression by John Reid
- An Afghani teacher moves to Canada by Sharifa Sherzad
- An anecdote about children and religion
- An Edmonton Blizzard Baby, 1958, by Vernon Wishart, [See separate account by Joanne Wishart]
- An Edmonton childhood in the 1930s and 1940s, by Phyllis Ellis
- An Edmonton Father's Wisdom, 1944 by Harley Reid
- An Edmonton Flyers Hockey Game, by Betty Millman
- An Edmonton memoir, by Muriel Kuchison
- An Edmonton memoir: Kathryne Faye Bielby
- An Energetic Emigrant, excerpt from 'Edmonton Daily Bulletin.'1911
- An English immigrant family in Edmonton: 1957, by Mary F. Cavill
- And the Wind Blew: A Boy at Borden Park, 1932, by John Reid
- Anne Yuill's childhood memories of Edmonton
- Atlantic #3, September 1948, A story by Sterling Haynes
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Avenue of Memories
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- Bingo and Other Contests in Edmonton, 1950s, by Helen Mahoney
- Bishop Grandin to Tache, Letter from St. Albert, 13 October 1870
- Blizzard of 1942: My Memories of Edmonton's Worst Snowstorm, by Nan Morrison
- Blizzard: Edmonton's 1942 Snow Storm, a story by Nan Morrison
- Blowey Henry, 1908
- Blue Bin Loudin: A humorous look at recycling in Edmonton
- Boom! A bomb in Norwood! by Bob Davies
- Borden Park in the 1930s - A Real Adventure! By Sheila McGugan Petersen
- Borden Park Zoo as I Remember It, by Nan Morrison
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Brighton: Memories of an Edmonton neighbourhood: 1948 - 2003, by Ronnie Morris
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- Calder Neighbourhood Memories, 1950s, by Gwen McDonald Halabisky
- CBC Radio, 1948
- Chartrand-Dery, Elise,My Childhood Initiation to Life in Edmonton; Franco-Albertans in Edmonton
- Child's World around the Mill Creek Ravine, 1940s and 1950s, by Jean Crozier
- Childhood Candor about Religion; An Edmonton family story, by Melle Huizinga
- Childhood in Edmonton: Yo-yo's and bolo bats: A story of our toys in the 1930s, by Phyllis Ellis
- Chinatown as I Remember It, 1930s and 1940s, By William Kay
- Chinese settlers in early Alberta, Public attitudes as reflected in the newspapers, by Lydia Low
- Christmas reminiscences, Edmonton, 1920s and 1930s, by Bob Davies
- Colin Case
- Coming to Edmonton by Rahim Jaffer
- Cooking Yorkshire Pudding at 1,300 Feet Above Sea Level: An English immigrant's story, by Mary Cavill
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Curly: A hobo shack dweller in Edmonton in the 1930s, Story by Alex Latta
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- D-Day Remembered, Poem by Beatrice Daily Huser
- Daniel Francis: Biography of a Beaverhill Lake homesteader in late 1800s, by grandson Jack Francis
- Day Care in Edmonton: 1908-1930, by Anne Lightfoot
- Days of the American Flight Boots, 1940s, by Bill Hodgson
- Dear Aunt Velma: A letter to Velma Carter, African-American historian in Alberta
- Dolly Freeman, Tea Cup Reader During the Depression, 1930s, By Velma Logan, her daughter
- Dolly Freeman, Tea Cup Reader During the Depression, 1930s, photo
- Dr. E. Ballantyne
- Dr. Herbert "Pete" Coutts, Tribute to a Generous Edmontonian
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Drive-In movies in Edmonton in the 1970s
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- Easter Revelation: A memoir about the Aberhart Tuberculosis Sanitorium, 1955, by Beatrice Daily Huser
- Edmonton and Calgary: Reflections on the rivalry, by Muriel Kurchison
- Edmonton Becomes Home, a personal story
- Edmonton Exhibition: Memoir of a country fair in the city, by William Kay
- Edmonton Grads Basketball Team on the Road. Story by Former Player, Edith Stone Sutton
- Edmonton Grads basketball team; Frying Onions; a team story by Edith Sutton
- Edmonton Indian Residential School, Kathleen Steinhauer Recalls Her Childhood, Residential School and the Steinhauer Family
- Edmonton memories: Great characters I remember, by Kathleen Bailey
- Edmonton Ski Club, Memoir by Nell Godwin
- Edmonton's Outskirts in 1948, a family story by Jean Connor
- Edmonton: A Cool City by Vernon Wishart
- Edmonton: A tribute to the city from an appreciative citizen, by Helen Richards
- Edmonton: Why I love this city...
- Edwards'Grocery: Fourteen Hours a Day Without Complaint, By Bob Edwards
- Eighty-Three Years in McCauley, by Marion Robinson
- Elise Chartrand-Dery: Mon initiation de vie a Edmonton - A Franco-Albertan's story of life in Edmonton
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Eulogy of Willie Mae Hamilton
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- Family History
- Family Life in Edmonton in the 1950s, by K.F. Bielby
- Finding fun in Edmonton in the 1940s and 1950s, by Gwen McDonald Halabisky
- First Taste of Summer, Edmonton, 1940s, by William Kay
- Five Generations in Strathcona, by Darlene Donald
- Footprints Around the World by Naikbakht Arbabzada
- Fort Carlton Treaty #6 Commemoration
- Fort, Flett and Family: A Journey into our Family Roots at Fort Edmonton, by Vernon R. Wishart and Shirley A Wishart.
- Four Seasons of the Vacant Lot in Old Strathcona
- Frank Hutchings'Letter to Pearl, October 23, 1911
- From Railroad to Rail town
- From the Fox's Den, 1990 - 2001 An Edmonton Christmas memoir by Kevin Fox
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Funny Money: A family memoir of the Social Credit era by Sterling Haynes
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- Gambit Products Ltd.
- Geoffrey, Profle of a Remittance Man in Edmonton.
- God Save the Queen: A story about the Edmonton Queen riverboat
- Gotcha! A story about children's games in Edmonton during the Second World War
- Grandma's Plates: Edmonton historical story by Gertrude Dahl
- Great Western Garment Company, Edmonton: A former seamstress remembers, Story by Assunta Dotto
- Growing up in Edmonton, 1936 -46, by Denny May
- Growing Up In Edmonton: A memoir by Heather Zwicker
- Growing up in McKernan by Gladys Nagel
- Growing Up in Old Strathcona, 1919, Another story by Ruth Williams
- Growing Up in Old Strathcona, by Ruth Williams
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Growing Up On Boyle Street - A Personal Memoir by Ed Wigmore
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- Harley's Humpbacks: Whales in Edmonton by Harley Reid
- Hazeldean School, by Ruth Lane Kanter
- Hoping to Work for Ward Air, a personal story, by Muriel Kuchison
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Horse Barns at 92 Street and Jasper Avenue
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- Immigrating from Afghanistan by Imamuddin Saifee
- Improving the Neighbourhood by Razia Jaffer
- Interview with Alva Taylor, Treating tuberculosis at Charles Camsell Hospital
- Interview with Angela and Greg Buteau, former residents of Evergreen Mobile Home Community, Tornado, July 31,1987
- Interview with Calvin Bruneau, Papaschase band councillor, about Fort Edmonton cemetery in Rossdale
- Interview with Charles Anderson, 101-year-old who arrived in 1911 at age of 10
- Interview with Cho Mui Yee, immigrant from China 2004
- Interview with Clara Mintz, Early Jewish life in Early Edmonton,
- Interview with Clare Botsford, Hunger March and the Depression: Childhood memoir
- Interview with Dr. Doug Owram, Historian, University of Alberta
- Interview with Evelyn Hamdon, on: Edmonton's first mosque and early Muslims
- Interview with Fran Gosche, Papaschase and Metis history in Edmonton
- Interview with Fran Rowand: The Rowand family of Fort Edmonton, and their descendants
- Interview with Fred Barns
- Interview with Gee Don Tom, Chinese immigration to Edmonton in the 1950s
- Interview with Mary Chow
- Interview with Mary Kur, immigrant from Sudan, 2003
- Interview with Mieko Ouchi, Actor and director in Edmonton
- Interview with Olive Allen
- Interview with Olive Allen, Childhood memoir of Edmonton in the early 1900s
- Interview with Phil and Mae Cox, regarding memories of the Edmonton Public Library
- Interview with Stanley Milner, on early oil and gas industry in Edmonton
- Interview with Ted Robinson, Age Five, on his favourite places in Edmonton
- Interview with Tony Cashman
- Interview with Tsui Poshu, Immigrant to Edmonton from Hong Kong
- Interview with V. S. Wong (Wong Mun Sing), Immigrant to Edmonton from Hong Kong
- Interview with Violet Southern, Family immigrated to Edmonton in 1903
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Isidore Lamothe and Anne-Marie Galibois
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- John Alexander (Jack) Hamilton
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Journal Learn to Ski Lessons
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- Latta Family Collection, The Latta Bridge
- Latta Family Collection: The Latta Bridge on Jasper Avenue, 1936, by Izola Mottershead
- Latta Family Collection:Alex Latta Limited
- Leila Laura Adele Case (nee Flaws), wife of Carl Edwin
- Letter from Hamdon and Alley Ltd., Fur trade, Edmonton 1930s
- Looking Back at the First and Last House on the Block
- Lord's Day Act, 1944: An Edmonton grocer is fined for selling a tomato, by Ruth Miller Nolan
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Love Letter to Canada: by Thuc Cong, Vietnamese immigrant to Edmonton
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- Mary Bond Collection: Edmonton's River Valley, 1946
- Memories of a Northern Alberta Telegraph Messenger
- Memories of a Northern Alberta Telegraph Messenger
- Memories of a Special House
- Memories of My McKernan Home, by Marion Robinson
- Memories of Old Edmonton, 1930s and 1940s, by Elizabeth McGillivray
- Milkman on the Go, 1952, by Alan Lyons
- Moravian Conscientious Objector in Edmonton,1914-1918, story by Doug Fenske
- Mountain Mover: A Profile of Jean Lauber, Edmontonian
- Movie memories: An Usher at the Capitol Theatre in the 1950s, by Jean Connor
- Moving to Edmonton from Vietnam, by Thuc Cong
- Mr. Davis'water wagon
- Muriel Huchison, Biographical Details
- Murray MacDonald
- Murray MacDonald: A gifted art teacher in Edmonton in the 1930s, by Gladys Nagel
- My Edmonton Memoirs, by Isobell Dittrich -- 1915 - 1993
- My Edmonton, by Nora Moore
- My Father: Edmonton Pioneer Pharmacist, George Thomson
- My First Christmas in Edmonton, by Inge Vermeulen
- My First Edmonton Experience, by Ruth Hamson; Childhood memoir of medical treatment in the 1930s
- My First Encounter of Edmonton. by Jimmy Gin, Immigrant from China in 1950
- My First Experience in Edmonton, by Ronnie Morris, musician and writer
- My memories of Edmonton in the 1950s, by Joyce Maloney
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My Mother's Versatile Laundry Tub, by Harley Reid, Edmonton childhood memoir, 1930s
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- Naming of Edmonton
- Night Bell
- Norma Proudfoot Interview
- Normal School Days
- Not Again: An Edmontonian's reflections on the news of war, by Beatrice Daily Huser
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Notes on Another Edmonton: Our connection with Edmonton, United Kingdom
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- Oh, Tannenbaum in Edmonton, by Inge Vermeulen
- Oil well fire of Labour Day weekend, 1948, by Bob Davies
- Old Edmonton: Queen Alexandra School memories of the early 1920s
- Olga Halina Chorny: My Life of Volunteering in Edmonton
- One Salamader, Plus One Ten Cent Match Box = Trouble [Edmonton childhood memoir, 1935], by Alex Latta
- Our club, Childhood memoir, 1944, by Alex Latta
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Our homes in Edmonton, by Joyce Burwash
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- Papaschase: A family memoir by Dwayne Donald
- Parking Frustrations in Edmonton, by Beatrice Daily Huser
- Phoenix: A Vietnamese immigrant's memoir, by Thuc Cong
- Pioneers of the 1950s: The Reid family moves to Edmonton
- Plane Talk about Blatchford Field: A memoir by Ruth Williams
- Plane Talk, circa 1918
- Playing Trumpet at the Trocadero
- Please: Be Precise! An Edmonton police officer's story from the 1950s, by John Reid
- Prized Painting: A childhood memoir from Cromdale, by Nora Moore
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Push-up-man: Performer Fringe festival 10 years
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Questions and Answers
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- Radio crime busters, 1930 to 1949, Childhood memoir, by Phyllis Ellis
- Raising Kids in Edmonton, 1950s, by Kathryne Faye Bielby
- Rations, Victory Gardens, and the Red Cross, by Margaret Matheson
- RCAF Flight Training School
- Recalling Alberta's railways, by Don Gordon
- Residential Schools in Alberta: Emotional and Psychological Effects, A personal story, by Kathleen Steinhauer
- Roles of children and parents in Edmonton in the 1930s
- Roller Drome: roller skating in north Edmonton in the 1940s, by Betty Millman
- Roots and Romance: the David and Marian Duggan family
- Rosie the Riveter: Memories of a Wartime Worker at Aircraft Repair in Edmonton, 1941, by Norah Plumley Hook
- Royal Smile, My Memories of the King and Queen's Visit to Edmonton, 1939, by Rosaline Hupfer
- Royal Tour, "The Wave," a childhood memoir of June 2, 1939 in Edmonton, by Harley Reid
- Royal Visit 1939, Rosaline Hupfer
- Royal Visit to Edmonton, an eight-year-old boy's story, by Bill Hodgson
- Royal Visit, 1939, "To See the Queen." A teacher raises $26 to take students to parade, story by Beatrice Daily Huser.
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Rustic's Confectionery, 1919 - 1952, by Izola Mottershead
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- School Days at King Edward Elementary School, 1957 - 1962, by Sheila Thompson
- School Days at Queen's Avenue School, [detailed anecdotes about children's clothing] -- 1920s -- Anne Yuill
- School Days, in Westmount and Glenora, 1940s, Denny May
- School in Cromdale, by Nora Moore, early 1930s
- Second World War memoirs: The Day That War Was Declared, 1939, by Elizabeth McGillivray
- Self's Meat Market in Strathcona, by Darlene Donald
- Shoe napping: An Edmonton Christmas Concert story, 1945, by Harley Reid
- Shopping in Edmonton: Then and Now, by Phyllis Ellis
- Siblings of Ted Case
- Snowstorm: 1942, by Harley Reid
- Summer Days in the Raymond Hotel, on Whyte Avenue, 1948, by Leslie Aitken
- Sunday habits in Edmonton, in the 1920s and 1930s, by Anne Yuill
- Sundays: Childhood memoir of Edmonton in the 1920s and 1930s, by Velma Logan
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Surveying The Canadian West, 1870 to 2004
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- Technocracy in Edmonton, 1930s, by John Gregory
- The Arial Painters
- The Bike: A Childhood Memory of 1943, by Izola Mottershead
- The Bramley-Moore family: Notes on photos, 1900 - 1930
- The Clark Family
- The Cram Family Arrives in Edmonton
- The Cruiser's Car Club, A memoir of Edmonton in the 1950s, by Wayne Halabisky
- The Day I Grew Up: An Edmonton family memoir, by Sheila McKay
- The Edmonton Gay Pride Parade, 2003
- The Edmonton Saddlery and Martin's Luggage Shop
- The Facts of Life: A 1942 Edmonton memoir, by Harley Reid
- The Ghosts of Old Vic High, by Nicholas Spillios
- The Great Blizzard of 1887 in southern Alberta, by Vern Wishart
- The Great White Way of Jasper Avenue, [1930s to 2004], by Nicholas Spillios
- The Grierson Dump, 1940s, An Edmonton story, by William Kay
- The Halina Family in Edmonton, 1916 -2004, by Olga Chorny
- The History of Beth Israel Synagogue, by Debby Shoctor
- The Horse That Got Away, Christmas, 1940, by Vernon Wishart
- The Kay Family as told by William Chee (Bill) Kay, 1890 to 2004
- The Margaret Littlewood Story: Edmonton's pioneering flying instructor during the Second World War
- The Milkman, an Edmonton story of the 1950s, by Mary Cavill
- The Pavey Candy Company, 1930 - 1939, A Depression-era child remembers how kids made money, by Alex Latta
- The Perfect Job: Working at the Edmonton Public Library in 1948, by Pat Hewitt
- The Short Cut in Strathcona, by Betty Millman
- The Sportsman, An Edmonton childhood memoir from the 1940s, by Denny May
- The Sunday School Picnic, by Phyllis Ellis
- The Swimming Pool: An Edmonton arrival story, by Thuc Cong
- The Toboggan Slide, An Edmonton childhood memoir from the 1940s, by Helen Murchie
- The Toonerville Trolley, A story about the best-loved streetcar in south Edmonton, Strathcona, by Betty Millman
- The VandenBerg Family
- The W.H. Clark Lumber, Millwork and Family
- The Wolf Man, a childhood memoir of Edmonton in the winter of 1942, by Harley Reid
- Thoughts on Edmonton's architecture, a personal view
- Tomato Soup, A story about the St. Louis Cafe on Jasper Avenue in the 1930s, by William Kay
- Tornado: Day of Darkness
- Tribute to a Proud Edmontonian; Herb Horn, story by Arlene Korzan
- Tribute to the courage of a power lineman: Edmonton City Light and Power Department, by Harley Reid
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Trocadero Ballroom, 1940 to 1959, a story by Phyllis Ellis
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Visits with Elizabeth
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- Waiting for Elizabeth, 1924: A childhood memoir by Velma Logan
- Walter Chorny, Second World War air force navigator, and Alberta pharmacist, a tribute by Olga Chorny
- War games, Edmonton 1940, a story by Phyllis Ellis
- Wartime memories; An Edmonton veteran's memoir of the Second World War by Art Smith
- Wartime Military Recruiting in Edmonton,1939 - 1945, by Lillian Gregory
- Whyte Avenue: A Strathcona story by Helen Murchie
- Wild Rose Ramblers (WRR)L An Edmonton walking club, by Pat Wishart
- Winter Boots, A Story by Frank Melchior
- Women in Alberta: A brief historical journey,1890 to 2004, by Phyllis Ellis