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Terence (Terry) James Cavanagh was born in Edmonton in 1926. He first ran for municipal office in 1968, but did not win a seat as an Alderman. He ran again in 1971, this time winning a seat, and was re-elected as an Alderman in 1974. When William Hawrelak died in office in 1975, Terry Cavanagh was chosen by City Council to serve as Mayor until the 1977 election. Although he ran for Mayor in 1977, he lost to Cec Purves.

Terry Cavanagh ran again for Council several years later, winning a seat in 1983 and again in 1986. When Mayor Laurence Decore stepped down to run for the Alberta Liberal Party, Cavanagh was selected by Council to serve as Mayor, but was defeated by Jan Reimer in the 1989 election.

Cavanagh was elected to Council again in 1992, and was re-elected in 1995, 1998, 2001, and 2004. He retired from municipal politics after deciding not to run in the 2007 election.

Tony Cashman was born April 28, 1923 in Edmonton Alberta. After living in California for a short time, the family returned to Edmonton and Mr. Cashman was educated at Grandin and St. Joseph's High School. He served in the Second World War from 1942-1945 before studying for three years at Notre Dame University in South Bend Indiana. After returning to Edmonton in 1949, Mr. Cashman worked at a variety of media positions, including station manager of the CKUA radio, reporter for the Edmonton Journal, and historian and curator of the Alberta Government Telephones Museum. Tony Cashman is a local storyteller, journalist, broadcaster and author. He has written several books, including "The Edmonton Story", "More Edmonton Stories" and "Singing Wires". Tony Cashman married Genevieve Mary Costello in August 1950. The Cashmans had three sons: Hal, Bernard, and Paul.

Robert James Cartmell was born on September 2, 1900 in Kirkham, Lancashire, England to Alban Cartmell and Dorthy Cartmell (née Danson). Robert had four siblings Mary Ann Cartmell, Nicholas Cartmell, Bernard Alban Cartmell, and Winifred Teresa Cartmell.
In 1923 Robert’s family moved to Canada. His father, Alban, was a painter and picked Edmonton because he liked to paint snow. In 1939, Robert married his wife Margaret MacDonald. Together Robert and Margaret had four children, Robert Cartmell, Peggy Cartmell, Jim Cartmell, and Gerry Cartmell. Robert died on September 3, 1988 at the age of 88 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Alberta Carnegie is a long-time resident of Edmonton.

Beatrice Carmichael was one of Edmonton's leading musical directors and promoters for over 30 years. Born Beatrice Van Loon in 1889 at Southbend, Indiana, she made her first soprano debut at the age of four. At the age of sixteen, she conducted her first orchestra and then obtained her bachelor of music degree from the University of Chicago. In 1919, she came to Edmonton for an engagement at the Mcdonald Hotel where she met her future husband. Settling in Edmonton she worked with the Women's Musical Club, gave violin lessons, and played with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. In 1935 she founded the Edmonton Civic Opera Society and she was its only musical director for almost 30 years. Beatrice Carmichael died in 1964, having made an outstanding contribution to music in Edmonton.

Dr. William Thomas Carlyle was born in Ontario and moved to Edmonton in 1913. He attended the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto, where he obtained a doctorate in veterinary science. He was employed as a veterinarian by the British Columbia Department of Agriculture, Williams Lake BC, the Dominion Livestock Board, Calgary AB, and Al Oemings' Game Farm, Edmonton AB. He was a director of the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), and its Northern Alberta branch. Dr. Carlyle's other interests were natural history and the history of Alberta. He was active in the Alberta Natural History Society, Edmonton Natural History Club, Historical Society of Alberta, Edmonton Camera Club, and Gateway Camera Club. He married Helen Clare [?], and they had one son. Dr. Carlyle died on February 11, 1992.

Brigham Young Card was born in Cardston, Alberta on March 11, 1914. He is the great-grandson of the prominent Mormon leader, Brigham Young, and the grandson of Charles Ora Card, who led a group of Mormon settlers from Utah to Southern Alberta to settle in the area later named Cardston in honour of the Card family. Card studied science at the University of Utah and the University of Alberta, and served as a Mormon missionary to French-speaking Switzerland from 1938-1940. In 1959, Card received his Ph. D. from Stanford University with a dissertation entitled "American Educational Sociology from 1890-1950 - A Sociological Analysis." He began lecturing at the University of Alberta in 1950, teaching the only sociology course offered at the University. His research focused primarily on social change in Western Canadian communities, and with comparative sociology of education. While at the University of Alberta, he helped organize the Campus Cooperative Residence, the LDS Club, the Department of Educational Foundations, Intercultural Education, Community Development, and Community Education. After a long and active research and teaching career with the University of Alberta, Card retired as Professor Emeritus of the Department of Educational Foundations in 1979. He was an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University from 1980-1981, and taught at Red Deer College from 1981-1984. In 1984, he was awarded the Sir Frederick Haultain Prize in social sciences for introducing and developing the field of educational sociology in Alberta. Card died in 2006 and is interred in Casper, Wyoming.

Annie Worswick Card was born in 1867. She moved from West Virginia to Innisfail with her husband Rev. Gerald Card in 1904. After losing everything to a prairie fire in 1906, the couple moved briefly to Vegreville, then to Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories, where Rev. Simpson served as an Indian Agent. Upon his death in 1932, Annie Card moved back south, settling in Edmonton. Although she had been painting since the 1880s, it was at this time that she could concentrate on her art.

Working in both watercolor and oil (though preferring the later), she painted a lot of still lifes and scenes with Indigenous subjects. Annie Card was a member of the Edmonton Art Club (joined in 1933), the Alberta Society of Artists, and the Canadian Federation of Artists. She passed away in 1959 and is interred at the Edmonton Municipal Cemetery.

David Capelazo is with the Historic Sites Branch of Alberta Community Development.

The son of architect Patrick Campbell-Hope, Bryan Campbell-Hope was born in Edmonton in 1928. Following in his father's footsteps, Campbell-Hope graduated architecture from the University of Alberta, and joined the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1961. He worked with various architectural firms in Edmonton, including his father's, before settling with the Department of Public Works after 1959. Like his father, Campbell-Hope was also enjoyed sketching and painting with watercolours.