Showing 9066 results

This subseries consists of aerial photographs taken of the City of Edmonton and surrounding areas for the purposes of land surveying. Each section consists of images that have been stitched together to form composites from the individual discs on which the images were stored. Each section, numbered 1 to 7, corresponds to the disc number.

Each square of the City map (above) is comprised of a sequence of individual images. Each image file is watermarked with its original file name, which is comprised of an 'y' and 'x' coordinate (yyy+xx(n)) where n represents the number in the sequence of images for that square.

Example: The file name of the center image of square 931+28 would be '9312813.jpg.'

This map shows transit routes effective August, 1951.

This work was painted by John McCullson. While nothing is currently known about the artist, the work depicts the salvage effort of the Gerona of Dundee, Scotland. The ship was stranded October 27, 1892 within 30 yards of land at Skisa Head, Caithness, Scotland. It was bound for Montreal with 1,100 tons of general cargo, a crew of 36 and 12 passengers. It is believed that this painting reflects the experience of some Western Europeans who emigrated to Edmonton at the turn of the twentieth century, and it may have an as-yet-undiscovered connection with other records in the collection at the City of Edmonton Archives

Robert Wesley Hedley (1871-1965) was born in Ontario and taught at a rural school before earning a high school teacher’s certificate in mathematics. He moved to Edmonton in 1912, where he became the art supervisor of public schools. In 1922 he developed the art course for Alberta high schools and taught art in summer sessions at the University of Alberta. He was hired as a mathematics and art teacher at the Edmonton Normal School in 1929, and retired in 1937. He continued working in the arts, and became Director of the Edmonton Museum of Art in 1943. He was also the art critic for the Edmonton Journal for many years.

Based on a map by Lieutenant Vavasour of the Royal Engineers, 1846.