Showing 1012 results

Lois Argue has been a resident of Edmonton since 1941 and came to be associated with the Municipal Airport and the Alaska Highway and North West Staging Route. She was one of the first members of the R.C.A.F. 700 Wing and other military organizations. She is an avid collector of history and a photographer of everything "that was going to be no more", documenting historic buildings and events in and around the city. She has written for various media and for many old Edmonton families and compiled scrapbooks on many historical events. She has been the historian for the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Descendants and a member of the Edmonton Historical Registry.

George Seale Armstrong was born in Grey County, Ontario and came to Edmonton in 1905. He opened a drug store at 435 Namayo Avenue in ca. 1907. The location of the store changed over time with the final site built in 1910 with an addition in 1912 at 10331 - 97 Street (formerly Namayo Avenue). George Armstrong became the first mayor of the united cities of Strathcona and Edmonton when he elected in 1912. Armstrong Drug Store had several owners, the last being Stephanie Andrews,known as Tini to her customers. The Armstrong Drug Store ceased operations on December 10, 1993.

Bruce Armstrong was a carpenter and joiner that owned land in the City of Strathcona ca. 1912.

Norman Arnold was born ca. 1895 and served with the 49th Regiment in World War I. After his return to civilian life he became a fireman with the City of Edmonton, becoming Captain of the force before his death in 1952.

Mr. Atkins is a long-time resident of Edmonton.

The Order of AHEPA (Anglo-Hellenic Educational Progressive Association) is a fraternal organization, originally founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1922. The Aurora Borealis Chapter 10 C.J. was established in Edmonton in 1932 as part of the Royal Canadian District no. 24. Its objectives are to promote an understanding of the Hellenic people, support selflessness, champion education, and resist the union of church and state.

Richard Asmet Awid was born in 1939. His father, Ahmed Ali Awid, arrived in Canada in 1901 and then Edmonton in 1927. Ahmed Awid was a founder of the Al Rashid Mosque, which was built in 1938 and then moved to Fort Edmonton Park in 1991. Richard Awid has written many histories about Lebanese and Arab Muslim communities, including his book Walk With Me My Son…You and I have some stories to tell.

Richard Awid’s wife, Soraya Hafez, was Edmonton’s first public school teacher in an Arabic bilingual program. A school in northeast Edmonton was named after her in 2020.

The Bach Tercentenary Festival 1985 Foundation (TriBach) Festival marked the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. Dr. Sherburne McCurdy of Alberta College was the founder and president of the local foundation which organized the festival and raised moneys for the celebration. Michael Tabbitt was the Festival Director for the seventeen days of performances and special events. Over 400 volunteers were recruited from Edmonton, Calgary and smaller centres around the province. A scholarship program was developed, dramas were produced and the event ended with a huge fireworks display.

Anton (Tony) Ernest Baer was born in 1920 to Anton Baer and Marianna Zimmer in Forget, Saskatchewan. His father moved the family frequently while Anton was growing up and they would move to Davidson in 1921, then onto Edmonton around 1922. There they would open a butcher shop and moonshine business in the Fraser Flats. They moved again in the late 1920’s to attempt to start a shop in Stony Plain, which failed. Around 1929 the family moved to a quarter section 70 miles south west of Edmonton, an area called Moon Lake. This move would end Tony’s formal education.

Anton Sr died in 1937 and Marianna sold the quarter section and moved back to Riverdale Flats in Edmonton where she bought a house and several of her adult children were able to live with her. Tony also came back to Edmonton, decided not to resume his education and began working whatever odd jobs he could find to earn money, including the dairy industry, servicing gas pumps, the brickyards, lumber mills, and harvesting agriculture. He joined the army on October 1, 1941 and served as a medic, including a tour in the Aleutian Islands. He was discharged in January 1946. He returned to Edmonton where he became a builder specializing in plastering, bricklaying and carpentry. He married Beth Lamoureux on April 27, 1946. They would have 9 children together. A worksite accident in January 1957 would make him blind in one eye and lead to the family moving to Porter, Yukon and join a business partnership with his sister Ann in construction. In 1976 they moved to Winfield BC, where Beth died at the age of 56. In 1991 he moved to Victoria, where he wrote his life story. His health declined in 2002 and he moved to Red Deer.

Anton died 30 August 2003 in Red Deer, Alberta. He was buried beside Beth in Kelowna, BC.

Georgia Baird came to Edmonton in 1960 and worked with the English Department of the University of Alberta. She also worked with the Society for the Retired and Semi-Retired where she established the Heritage Program in 1974 which linked seniors with school classes for the exchange of historical information, and ran the Heritage Library there. Mrs. Baird was appointed to the Edmonton Historical Board in 1978 and served as Chair of that body. She is also a volunteer at the City of Edmonton Archives. With her husband, Richard, a professor of political science at the University of Alberta, Georgia Baird has a keen interest in theatre in the city.