Showing 1305 results

11011 - 88 Avenue.
Emily Murphy lived in this house from 1919 until her death in 1933. The house, built in 1912, is of the typical frame construction of the first quarter of the century.
Emily Murphy arrived in Edmonton in 1907 and soon became active in her community. In 1916, Emily Murphy became the first woman magistrate in the British Empire, a position she held until 1931.
She is best remembered as one of the five Alberta women who won the Persons Case in 1929. After presenting their case to the Privy Council it was declared that Canadian women were "persons" under the meaning of the British North America Act.
She was awarded the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1915 and was active in many women's organizations including the Women's Canadian Club, Federated Women's Institutes of Canada and the National Council of Women. As well, Emily Murphy was an author with many books and articles to her credit.

Northlands Park.
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 Dedicated to the preservation of the history of the city and region, it collected artifacts and historical documents and helped to preserve historic sites in Edmonton.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.

9520 - 111 Avenue.
On this site, on February 15, 1909, the present Norwood School was officially opened to replace the two frame structures which had been the Norwood School since 1906.
Originally, this red brick Renaissance-style structure had ten classrooms for its four hundred students. The architect, R.W. Lines, is recognized as having been one of the foremost members of his profession.

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.

10440 - 108 Avenue.
Construction of the "Edmonton Drill Hall" was completed in 1915 under contract issued by the federal Department of Public Works. The site had been purchased by the City of Edmonton from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1912, then donated to the federal government. The building's architects were E.C. Hopkins and D.E. Ewart.
During the First World War, the 51st Battalion and the 233rd Battalion were quartered here. The name of the building was changed to the Prince of Wales Armouries in 1921.
The armouries has been the home of the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers and the Edmonton Regiment, which later became the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Garrison Officers Club.
In 1977, the armouries was declared surplus by the Department of National Defence. The building was transferred to the City of Edmonton in 1983. It was restored and reopened in 1992 to house the City of Edmonton Archives and local historial groups including the Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum and The Telephone Historical Centre.

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.

10171 Saskatchewan Drive.
The Ritchie Mill was one of the first roller mills in Western Canada. It was erected in 1891 by John Ritchie at a time when local agriculture was only beginning to develop. Under Robert Ritchie the mill became one of the major industries in South Edmonton and has remained a familiar monument to the local pioneering experience.

8120 Jasper Avenue.
Walter Scott Robertson was born in St. John, New Brunswick in 1841. He settled in Edmonton in 1882 and was soon appointed the first Sheriff of the Edmonton district. Robertson served in that capacity until retiring, shortly before his death, in 1915.
Sheriff Robertson built this house in 1912 as his retirement home. It was designed by Alfred M. Calderon, an Edmonton architect who also designed the LeMarchand Mansion. Calderon was influenced by acclaimed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whose "Prairie - Style" house is reflected here.
The house features an octagonal cupola, located over a two storey rotunda containing a fieldstone fireplace. The "porte chochere" or covered drive-through at the front was built for horse drawn carriages.

10103 - 123 Street.
Robertson Presbyterian Church was built in 1913 at the very end of the Edmonton building boom, and opened in early 1914 on the eve of "the Great War". Its High Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, inspired by First Baptist Church in Calgary, reflected a period of optimistic growth, and was typical of many similar large brick religious edifices at that time. Named for Reverend James Robertson, Superintendent of Missions for Manitoba and the North West Territories from 1881 to 1902, it proudly commemorated the history of church endeavor in Western Canada.
Robertson Presbyterian became a United Church following Union in 1925, and merged congregations with Wesley United Church in 1971. Wesley Methodist Church, the fourth Methodist congregation on the North Side, had been active in the west end since 1907; Robertson Presbyterian, also the fourth such congregation on the North Side, had begun services in the west end in 1909. Both churches reflected the growth in their areas during the pre-war building boom.
The large brick Wesley Methodist Sunday School served its congregation from 1913 to 1970 at 117 Street and 102 Avenue (17th Street and Athabasca Avenue when it opened). The Memorial Hall at Robertson - Wesley commemorates the sacrifice made by the Church during the Second World War; 297 enlisted and 28 died in the service of the country.

10105 - 96 Street.
The first St. Barbara's Russian Orthodox Church in Edmonton was a two-storied house consecrated on this site by Reverend James Korchinsky and Reverend Michael Skibinsky on May 18, 1902. Over sixty people attended this service. It was replaced by a wooden structure in 1908 and consecrated by Archmandrite Arseny. It was used until 1958, when the present building was completed to become St. Barbara's Russian Orthodox Cathedral on August 8, 1959.