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In the 1960s, Thai students studying at the University of Alberta first got together to form a group to promote Thai culture and cultural understanding. Their activities included developing a membership directory and newsletters and hosting events and gatherings.

In 1985, the Alberta Thai Association was formally established. The members of the first executive included Mr. Boon-Oom Gosinet (President), Mr. Buncha Ooraikul (Vice president), Mr. Anan Kaewmongkol (Secretary), Mr. Sombot Patayanikorn (Treasurer), Miss Ngamta Tekauyporn & Mr. Sanguan Parnmukh (Directors of Activities), Mrs. Kritsana (Saruprath) Wototschek & Mr. Pornchai Pannopsri (Directors of Fundraising), and Mrs. Banyong Gosinet & Mr. Nivat Chainarongpinij (Directors of Information).

The Alberta Thai Association works to promote appreciation and understanding of Thai culture, provide events and activities for members, and offer language and cultural enrichment programs. Programs include lessons in Thai conversation, fruit carving, cuisine, traditional music, and dance. The Alberta Thai Association also provides scholarships and awards to recognize achievements of community members.

Michelle Shegelski (nee Ernst) was born in High Level, Alberta on June 29, 1985 and lived there until she moved to Edmonton to attend the University of Alberta in Edmonton at age 18. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Philosophy. Shortly after graduating, Michelle began working for G4S Security, initially as a security guard, before transferring to G4S’s armoured security division. In 2009 while working as a trainer for G4S armoured division, she met her future husband Victor Shegelski, a new employee she was asked to train. Michelle and Victor were married on April 12, 2012 in a Victorian-themed wedding at Fort Edmonton Park, with Michelle wearing a Victorian wedding dress she had designed. On June 15, 2012 while working for G4S, Michelle was shot and killed by a co-worker in an ambush and armed robbery at the University of Alberta’s HUB Mall while refilling ATM’s. Michelle and two other G4S guards, Eddie Rejano and Brian Ilesic, lost their lives in the incident.

Bob (Robert) J. McClure was born in 1941 to Bob and Marge McClure in Edmonton AB. He would marry Margaret in 1971. During his life he worked at the University of Alberta and the City of Edmonton as a curator of Artifacts. He also worked as a Captain for the 12th Air Cadet Squadron and as a Justice of the Peace in the Stony Plain and Spruce Grove Area.

Bob died  in Stony Plain in 2013.

Ken Haywood opened Kentwood Ford in June 1970 at 13344 - 97 Street NW, offering the full range of Ford vehicles. Ken Haywood’s vision statement for his dealership stated that “we shall create a rewarding and fun environment where employees and customers are treated as friends, with honesty, integrity, and respect. We are committed to providing a superior customer experience and a better future for all concerned.” Kentwood Ford quickly became an award winning Ford dealership, claiming the Ford Distinguished Dealership Award in 1973 and 1978 and Time Magazine’s Quality Dealer Award in 1989. By 1995 Kentwood Ford employed 95 full time employees, over 50% of which had been employed with Kentwood Ford between 10 and 25 years. Employee appreciation was a core aspect of Kentwood Ford with an Employee Awards Night celebration held annually throughout many years of operation. Beyond its showroom floors, the dealership has actively engaged with Edmonton through various philanthropic endeavors, supporting local charities, and sponsoring community events. Ken Haywood remained President of Kentwood Ford until his retirement in 1996, at which point Kentwood Ford was sold to the Go Auto dealership group.

Rule Wynn and Rule was an architectural firm founded in Edmonton in 1938 by John Ulric Rule (1904-1978) and Gordon Kenneth Wynn (1912-1994). They established the company in response to a need for jobs for architects in Edmonton. John Rule’s brother, Peter Leitch Rule (1913-1964), joined the company two years after he graduated from the University of Alberta, leading to the company’s name becoming Rule Wynn and Rule (1938). As the economy improved near the end of the 1930s, jobs slowly began to trickle in. Eventually, the company was contracted by funeral director Don McGarvey to build a funeral home. This would be the first of many contracts for the company.

During the Second World War, the company was managed by the Rule siblings’ father, Peter Sr., who helped run the company while his sons and Gordon Wynn assisted in the war effort. Despite Peter Sr. not being a trained architect, he was given an honorary certificate by the Alberta Association of Architects, allowing him to manage the company without the other architects. When the war ended, Peter Rule was sent to work in the Calgary branch of the business, leading to more contracts in southern Alberta. He would oversee work in the Calgary branch until he passed away from a heart attack in 1964.

As the company continued to thrive, it expanded its partnership a year before Peter’s untimely demise. The Edmonton and Calgary branches witnessed these changes, with the Edmonton branch welcoming Gordon Forbes (1912- 2004), David George Lord (1917- 1990), and Heinz Feldberg (1928-2018). This expansion changed the company's name, now known as Rule Wynn Forbes Lord & Partners (1963), but this would change again after John Rule retired in 1966, leading the company to be known as Wynn Forbes Lord and Partners (1965), then Wynn Forbes Lord Feldberg Schmidt. This new partnership name reflected the addition of Sieghard Schmidt (1933-2005), who had joined the staff in 1964.

In 1973, Gordon Wynn officially retired from active practice, which led the partnership to change again, becoming Forbes Lord Feldberg Schmidt Croll (1972). This reflected the addition of Norman H. Croll, who joined the office in 1967 after searching for a change of pace from his practice in Wembley, England. In 1973, he would interview future company partner Craig J. B. Henderson, who had applied to work with the company after seeing an ad in the British Architectural Journal. Henderson became a company partner in 1981.

Across Alberta and other provinces, the company became known for the buildings they helped design and build, with many praised for their classic, modernist design. The firm specialized in building and consulting on commercial and residential buildings for over 70 years.

The Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers’ Association (NAPOTA), now called the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Descendants Association (NAPODA), is one of Edmonton's oldest chartered clubs.
It was founded on 22 Jun 1894 as the Edmonton Old Timers Association by a group of 36 pioneers who either trekked across the prairies from the east or worked their way up the Saskatchewan River by boat. There may have been an attempt to establish an old timers’ association as early as 1885. The association was originally open to male residents of Edmonton and district who arrived in Alberta District, NWT prior to the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883 and then almost immediately extended to 31 Dec 1883. The date was successively advanced to include more recent pioneers.
Its original objectives were “the preservation of the early history of the settlement, and the social and friendly relations of the pioneers of the district.” Its early history is poorly documented – it appears to have become moribund prior to World War I and was re-organized in 1924 as the Edmonton Pioneers and Northern Alberta Old Timers Association, with women included in membership.
It has been continuously active since then as a social organization with some benevolent objectives, including provision of cemetery plots for members. Its name changed to Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers Association in 1925 and Northern Alberta Pioneers and Descendants Association in 1983.

Robert H. Johnston was born 6 Jun 1879 to Mary Scott and Isaac Johnston in Lincoln, Ontario. He attended Harbord Street Collegiate in Toronto and graduated from Toronto University with Honours in Classics in 1900. The following year he attended the Ontario Faculty of Education.
Robert moved to Alberta where he secured a teaching position at the Edmonton High School. Robert taught at the school until about 1906, and then worked as a Dominion Land Surveyor for about ten years.
Robert married Barbara Dunlap, daughter of J.J. Dunlap in 1914, in Edmonton. They had two children. He returned to teaching in 1917 by joining the staff at McDougall High School where he taught mathematics and classics.
Robert H. Johnston died 21 Mar 1925, one day after being hit by an automobile. The accident was reported in The Edmonton Journal on March 23, 1915.

The modern incarnation of the Edmonton Eskimo Football Club was founded in 1949, although its predecessors date back as far as 1892, when an Edmontonian team was created in response to a challenge from Calgary and went on to win its first game. Three years later, a combined team of Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan players won the first Alberta Rugby Football Championship.

In 1908 the Edmonton Rugby Football Club was reorganized as the Esquimaux, a nickname it had acquired as early as 1897 from a Calgary sportswriter. The spelling was changed to Eskimos in 1910. In 1921, the Eskimos became the first Western Canadian football team to compete in the Grey Cup, but were defeated by the Toronto Argonauts. Following this and a subsequent loss in the 1922 Grey Cup, the Eskimos largely retreated from the football scene, making brief reappearances before being revived in 1949 as the publically-owned Edmonton Eskimo Rugby Football Club. ‘Rugby’ was dropped from the name in 1952.

Their first Grey Cup championship season came in 1954 under coach Frank ‘Pop’ Ivy and was immediately followed by two others in the succeeding years. In 1964, the Eskimo leadership was reorganized with the establishment of a nine- (later ten-) person Board of Directors and an explicit set of guidelines to replace its original ‘Articles of Association.’ From 1978 to 1982 the Eskimos won an unprecedented five championships in a row. The team continues to be a popular organization in the city, having won 13 Grey Cup championships.

In June 2021, the team officially changed their name to the Edmonton Elks.

Patrick Lamb is an artist, historian and a keen sports enthusiast. He was an archivist at the City of Edmonton Archives from 1988 until 2001.

Man H. Ho was born in 1978 in Brunei and immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta with his parents in 1988. He attended Ross Sheppeard High School in Edmonton and earned an economics degree at the University of Alberta. Man Ho is an avid photographer who has documented many events and activities in Chinatown and the Chinese community in Edmonton.