Showing 988 results

The Oil Wives Club of Edmonton is a branch of a national organization. The Oil Wives Club was established in 1951 by Dean Hunter, wife of Vern Hunter, as an avenue to create community for oilfield worker's wives. Dean organized a monthly night out for members.
During the time when the Club was established, families of oil drillers often lived in trailers in rural areas with their families and were moving often. Wives of workers were often lonely and found it difficult to make friends.
The Club continues to exist and foster friendship among the wives of professional oil workers.

The Edmonton Chinese Philharmonica Association is a non-profit organization founded in 2001 in order to promote Chinese culture and traditional music through public performances. In addition to its own presentations, the Association had participated in heritage festivals and concerts.

Cecil Werden Richardson was born ca. 1909. Cecil was a long time resident of Alberta and spent 60 years of his life in Edmonton. Cecil worked as a farmer, grain buyer, general store owner, steel productions representative and up until his retirement, he worked at C.W. Carry in Edmonton.
Cecil’s main hobby was photography and he had his own dark room to develop film. He would take photographs of various places around Edmonton and had an interest in the development of the Edmonton River Valley and the 1987 tornado, which struck not far from his home and hit the industrial area where he worked.
Cecil was married to his wife Frances and together they had a son, Larry Richardson and a daughter, Marilyn Richardson.
Cecil died in Edmonton in 2011 at the age of 102.

The Jazz City festival was established by the Edmonton Jazz Society in 1980 under the direction of Marc Vasey. The festival was created in response to an initiative from Alberta Culture to celebrate the province's 75th anniversary. The Edmonton Jazz Society, founded in 1973, had previously sponsored individual jazz concerts, but Jazz City was the first large-scale, multi-day jazz music event in Edmonton. The administration of the festival was taken over in 1984 by the newly-created non-profit called the Jazz City Festival Society. Jazz City occurred annually from 1984 to 2005 under the direction of the Jazz City Festival Society. The 2005 event was the last Jazz City festival, and in 2006 the Jazz City Festival Society disbanded. The Jazz City Festival Society and Marc Vasey also organized the Jazz Festival Calgary Society and produced Jazz Festival Calgary from the Jazz City Festival Society headquarters in Edmonton from 1998 to 2006.

The first Jazz City season ran from August 17-24, 1980. Twenty concerts were presented at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium and the Shoctor Theatre. The latter (part of the Citadel Theatre complex) remained the main festival stage until 1984, supplemented by the Citadel Theatre’s MacLab Theatre in 1985, the Chateau Lacombe Ballroom from 1986 - 1990, and the Westin Hotel Ballroom in 1991. Other venues have been used as required, and the festival has presented music in local clubs like the Sidetrack Café and at free, outdoor concerts in Sir Winston Churchill Park. In 1985 the Yardbird Suite became a major festival venue.

In 1986 the festival moved from mid-August to late June and early July and expanded to 10 days. In 1990 it offered 140 concerts and club presentations, including 90 free events, featuring 375 musicians from nine countries. With the advent of Westcan Jazz in 1987 the festival began to co-operate with other western Canadian festivals and Jazz City's programming took a broader and more eclectic turn. Jazz City was the first of the Canadian jazz festivals of the 1980s to achieve international standing.

The Phoenix Multi-Faith Society for Harmony launched on September 17th 2006 at Edmonton City Hall in front of 200 people. Following attacks on mosques and synagogues in Edmonton, Jewish and Muslim leaders worked with the Edmonton Police to promote harmony between the groups in the city.
Attacks on the Beth Shalom and Beth Israel synagogues and the Muslim Community of Edmonton mosque led the leaders to seek avenues in which they could work together.
The Society brought in the Edmonton Police Department’s Anti-Hate Bias Crime Unit and the Archbishop Thomas Collins. The Society annually hosts Diversity Day at Edmonton City Hall.
The Society has a board of six representatives from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish faiths who meet monthly. The Society’s objective is to seek positive coexistence and relationships among various faiths, particularly the Abrahamic faiths, through open communication and dialogue, education and community participation. The Society aims to address and eliminate intercommunity negative stereotypes, hatred, and prejudices within Edmonton.

Lorna Garrett was a resident of Edmonton. Lorna Garrett died on August 31, 2006.

This record exists solely to assist with AoR updates. Do not edit.

Archibald Hadley Dickson was born on the 5th of December, 1908 in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. His parents were Samuel Archibald Dickson and Evelyn Ward Dickson. Archibald pracised law in Edmonton at Dickson, Dickson, & Masson. He married Grace Ann Munro Hoppe. Archibald began was a member of the Edmonton Rotary Club from 1946 until his death on the 26th of August, 2001.

Samuel Dickson was born in Seaforth, Ontario on the 19th of February, 1876. He graduated in Arts from the University of Toronto in 1899 and in Law from Osgoode Hall in Toronto in 1902. Samuel came west in October 1902 and practiced law in Fort Saskatchewan (1902-1909) and in Edmonton (1909-1970). He was appointed King's Council in 1928. He founded the Rotary Club in Edmonton in 1916 and later served as its president.
He served as a member of the Edmonton Public School Board, and the City of Edmonton Archives and Landmarks Committee, as well as the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old-timers' Association (President, 1949-1950), and the Historical Society of Alberta (President, 1958-1959).
A vigorous supporter of historical preservation, Samuel was a leader in the campaign to establish Fort Edmonton Park. In 1971 he was appointed Honorary Mayor of the Park. He married Evelyn Hannah Ward in December 1907, and they had one son and two daughters. Evelyn Ward Dickson died in 1949. Samuel Archibald Dickson died in November 1971.

The Concerned Citizens for Edmonton's River Valley (ConCerv) was established in 1999. The organization's mission statement was to advocate for the protection of Edmonton's river valley from industrial development. Instead, ConCerv sought development that would remain consistent with cultural, residential, and recreational pursuits.

ConCerv was primarily concerned with the proposed expansion of the EPCOR power plant situated in the river valley. The organization sought intervener status so that it could represent the river valley communities of Cloverdale, Rossdale, and Old Strathcona.

ConCerv was dissolved as an Alberta Society in 2007.