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The Cariwest Festival has been staged annually by the Western Carnival Development Association (WCDA) since 1985. The Cariwest festival provides a platform through which to share popular Caribbean music, cuisine and Caribbean carnival culture with Western Canada. Edmonton's Cariwest festival is the largest Caribbean arts festival in western Canada.

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.

In 1965 The Dental Association of Alberta recommended and lobbied for water fluoridation to help improve dental health in Edmonton.

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

The Canukeena Club of Edmonton was founded in 1948 as a branch of the original Canukeena Club. Established in 1919 by veterans of the First World War, the Canukeena Club derives its name from ‘keen Canadians.’ The Club’s main goal was to preserve the spirit of military life and to promote its application to new conditions as civilians. Initially restricted to veterans of the First World War, its membership restriction was eventually eased to include veterans of the Second World War. The Club’s Latin motto Non Nobis Solum is translated to English as ‘Not for Ourselves Alone.’ Due to declining membership, the Edmonton branch of the Canukeena Club dissolved in 2003.

The Canadian Women’s Theatre Guild, Edmonton was founded in 1952 by Elizabeth Sterling Haynes. The Guild was established to raise funds to support the theatre community in Edmonton. The Guild supported a wide range of theatre programs including studio, children’s, and professional.

At a meeting in 1958 the Guild decided to establish the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Memorial Scholarship. The funds from the scholarship went to students at the Drama program at the University of Alberta. The Guild closed its books in September 1967, its remaining funds were given to the University of Alberta’s Drama department.

The Canadian Welfare Council began as the Canadian Council on Child and Family Welfare and the Canadian Council on Child Welfare, which were founded by Charlotte Whitton in 1920. In 1935 the Canadian Welfare Council evolved from these organizations. The Council is an independent non-profit national organization aimed to assist Canada’s social programs. The Council is membership-based, consisting of government departments, organizations, corporations and individuals. The Council receives its funding through various avenues such as research contracts, publication sales, donations and memberships. In 1943 the Edmonton Council for Social Agencies Child Welfare division worked with the Canada Welfare Council to produce the Whitton Study. In 1971 the Council changed its name to the Canadian Council on Social Development. Throughout its history the focus of the Council shifted from welfare to social development. The Council played a role in the development of Canada's social programs, child welfare, unemployment insurance, poverty welfare, medicare and old age security. As of 2022, the Council is focused on the issues of women and Indigenous and Metis people.

During the First World War Canada sent a small force to Northern Russia and Siberia as the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force (CSEF) which was part of the larger Canadian Expeditionary Force. Approximately 18 soldiers died there and are buried at Churkin, Vladivostok.

Beginning in 1928 as the Canadian National Social and Athletics Association, the Canadian National Recreation Association (CNRA) was an informal way for employees of Canadian National (CN) to gather and socialize. Membership was open to all CN employees and their families. The association sponsored recreational activities such as tennis, lawn bowling, curling, golf, fastball, and hockey, as well as social activities like dancing, ping-pong, cribbage, and card parties. The association was very popular and grew to become an integral part of the CNR in the Edmonton area. Due to the constant popularity of the club, the CNRA incorporated in 1955 so that it could more formally handle the increasing responsibilities of the organization. In 1960, the CNRA and the CN Credit Union cooperated in the construction of a new recreation centre for CNA employees. In order for the CNRA to enter a partnership with the Credit Union they become incorporated under the Societies Act of Alberta. The CNRA contributed $12,000 to the construction of the facility in exchange for a 30 years lease on the operation of the building. Completed in April 1961, the new building allowed the association to sponsor more social and recreational activities during the 1960s and 1970s. The 1980s, however, saw the demise of the CNRA likely due to the changing nature of the railway system in Canada.