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9430 Scona Road.
The Northern Alberta Pioneers and Descendants Association was originally formed as the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers' Association (NAPOTA) in 1894. Dedicated to the preservation of the history of the city and region, it collected artifacts and historical documents and helped to preserve historic sites in Edmonton. These included Frank Oliver's Edmonton Bulletin building and the original wooden McDougall Church, both now located at Fort Edmonton Park.
The Association operated a memorial cabin at the Exhibition Grounds, but by the early 1950s it needed a larger building. Working in close cooperation with City Council and city staff, the current site on Scona Hill was offered on a long-term lease to NAPOTA in 1956.
The organization, excited at the chance to build on the site, began fund-raising almost immediately.
The logs for the building were cut from a large stand of timber near Drayton Valley and then transported to a site near Mission Beach on Pigeon Lake where the building was planned and the logs prepared and numbered for final assembly.
In 1958 the Scona Hill sited was prepared for construction and the materials transported to Edmonton for final assembly. By early 1959 the cabin was open for use.

9430 Scona Road.
The Northern Alberta Pioneers and Descendants Association was originally formed as the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers' Association (NAPOTA) in 1894. Dedicated to the preservation of the history of the city and region, it collected artifacts and historical documents and helped to preserve historic sites in Edmonton. These included Frank Oliver's Edmonton Bulletin building and the original wooden McDougall Church, both now located at Fort Edmonton Park.
The Association operated a memorial cabin at the Exhibition Grounds, but by the early 1950s it needed a larger building. Working in close cooperation with City Council and city staff, the current site on Scona Hill was offered on a long-term lease to NAPOTA in 1956.
The organization, excited at the chance to build on the site, began fund-raising almost immediately.
The logs for the building were cut from a large stand of timber near Drayton Valley and then transported to a site near Mission Beach on Pigeon Lake where the building was planned and the logs prepared and numbered for final assembly.
In 1958 the Scona Hill sited was prepared for construction and the materials transported to Edmonton for final assembly. By early 1959 the cabin was open for use.

9916 - 110 Street.
The Oblats Maison Provinciale - the Provincial House of the Oblates - and St. Joachim Roman Catholic Church are beautiful reminders of a group of buildings once known as the Mission Block.
The local Oblate Fathers of Marie-Immaculate (OMI), led by Father Albert Lacombe, constructed St. Joachim, Edmonton's first church, inside the walls of Fort Edmonton in 1859, twenty years after the region welcomed the Oblates as its first missionaries. By 1899, the mission had built the fourth and final reconstruction of the church on this street, amidst Edmonton's emerging francophone community. Nearby stood Edmonton's first Roman Catholic school and the Edmonton General Hospital, run by the Grey Nuns. The buildings that made up the Mission Block included the church, St. Joseph's Seminary, the Convent of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, and then, in 1928, the Oblats Maison Provinciale.
The building was designed by local architect Edward Underwood in a simple Georgian classical, or Federal style typified by a symmetrical design and was constructed by J.P. Desrochers.
For more than sixty-five years, the Provincial House served as the administration headquarters for the Oblate mission in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and as a residence for local priests. This building also functioned as the parish rectory for a time.

10227 - 118 Street.
Named in honour of Frank Oliver, then federal Minister of the Interior and former school board trustee, editor of the Edmonton Bulletin and Northwest Territories councilor, Oliver School opened on 13 March 1911, with an enrolment of 280 pupils.
The Edmonton Public School Board had awarded the construction to Edmonton contractor Alex Beaton for $76,300, but the plumbing and heating installations raised the final cost to over $100,000. New features included fireproof staircases and landings in separate wings, large segregated basement playrooms for each gender, and the latest in heating and ventilating innovations. The original ventilation system is still in use today. Having such conveniences as electric lights, indoor toilets and a miniature rifle range in the boys' playroom made Oliver School a very modern building for its time.
Oliver School expansions included an addition in 1929, a gymnasium in 1957 and a $3.5 million modernization completed in 2000. In 1956, Oliver School expanded to become an elementary - junior high school and remained as such until 1979, when it reverted to an elementary school. Today, it is the home of the Oliver Elementary Program serving 230 boys and girls, and the Nellie McClung Girls' Junior High Program serving 180 girls.
Oliver School holds a record for Edmonton public schools with two of its members, Robina McMillan (1919-1962) and Helen Raver (1922-1964), having taught for a total of 85 years.

10612 - 97 Avenue.
The Park View Apartments marked a social transformation for the district when it appeared as the first apartment building in the river flats in 1914. Edmonton had emerged as the centre for the provincial government and working class people on Ross Flats welcomed new neighbours: Edmonton's professionals, businessmen, and businesswomen.
Designed and built by local contractors Nathaniel Purcell and Richard Foote, the eleven-suite apartment block satisfied the desires of the middle class to leave elaborate Victorian structures behind. The Edwardian building offered lavish simplicity, light, and air.
Among the accountants, secretaries and teachers who called the Park View home was the lawyer Lawrence Y. Cairns, who became an Alberta Supreme Court judge. Foote, the building's designer, lived for a time in the adjacent house he built in 1907. He later became a city building inspector and alderman.

University of Alberta.
To commemorate the University's only pre-World War I structures and their use then as administrative classroom and Allied facilities before becoming two men's residences: Athabasca (built 1911); Assiniboia (built 1912) and Pembina, a women's dormitory (built 1914).

10169 -10173 104 Street.
With the arrival of the railroad, Edmonton reinforced its role as the gateway to the north. As part of this process, warehouses were built to store goods brought in by rail before being shipped off to their final destination, both regionally and to the north. The Phillips Building was built in 1913 during the pre-World War I building boom in the now historic warehouse district. The first tenant was Western Cartage Co.
The local newspapers at the time touted it as a "made in Edmonton building". Purcell and Foote designed and constructed it for N.W. Purcell and J.G. Kelly. Of standard mill-type construction, it was considered significant that the sand lime bricks were made in Edmonton by Aslip and Company.
The Phillips Building is a representative example of commercial warehouse design. An original feature was an arcade, which provided an access opening through the centre to the loading docks at the rear of the building. The two centre entrances define the original arcade, which has long since been closed in.
The main facade was redesigned in the 1960s and subsequently restored in 2001.

7730 - 106 Street.
This school officially opened in 1906 and was originally called Duggan Street School in honour of J. J. Duggan, former alderman, and Mayor of Strathcona. Built by Messrs. Pheasey and Batson, contractors who insisted upon craftsmanship, it is a fine example of turn of the century architecture. It was renamed Queen Alexandra School in 1910. The University of Alberta used this school as a campus, and as office of the President of the University, during 1908.
It was subsequently a neighbourhood elementary school for many years until offering a charter program in the last decade.

7730 - 106 Street.
This school officially opened in 1906 and was originally called Duggan Street School in honour of J. J. Duggan, former alderman, and Mayor of Strathcona. Built by Messrs. Pheasey and Batson, contractors who insisted upon craftsmanship, it is a fine example of turn of the century architecture. It was renamed Queen Alexandra School in 1910. The University of Alberta used this school as a campus, and as office of the President of the University, during 1908.
It was subsequently a neighbourhood elementary school for many years until offering a charter program in the last decade.

13831 - 114 Avenue.
The first civic planetarium in Canada was built by the citizens of Edmonton and officially opened on this site on September 22nd, 1960. It was named to commemorate the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to Edmonton one year earlier. The programmes in the Planetarium have proved both entertaining and informative over the years, drawing national acclaim.