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10025 - 105 Street.
The history of the First Presbyterian Church can by traced to the origins of Edmonton as a settlement. Reverend Andrew Baird established the first Presbyterian congregation in Alberta in 1881. The congregation outgrew its two earlier church buildings before this impressive building was designed. First Presbyterian Church was opened in 1912 by Reverend David G. McQueen. It is the oldest church of this denomination in Edmonton and is certainly the largest. Designed by the Edmonton firm of Arthur G. Wilson and David E. Herrald the church is a monument to the dedication and devotion of its congregation.

10025 - 105 Street.
Built in the Gothic Revival style, and constructed with Redcliff pressed brick and Bedford stone trim, the church cost over $165,000. Large Gothic windows allow light to stream into the oak paneled interior.

8325 - 101 Street.
The consecration of the first Holy Trinity Anglican Church, originally located at 81 Avenue and 100 Street, took place on November 26, 1893. In its early years, the parish was a mission for the areas of Colchester, Clearwater, Leduc and Conjuring Creek.
The original frame building was moved to this site in 1900, and the first rectory was built in 1902. The basement for the existing church was dug in 1906, and the building, constructed of tapestry or "clinker" brick was opened on October 12, 1913, at a cost of $36,000. It was designed in a modified English gothic style by Strathcona architects Henry and Arthur Whiddington. The organ, which was purchased in1923, serves as a memorial to the 46 parishioners who died in the First World War. The interior features beautiful stained glass windows and crafted dark wood paneling.

10086 MacDonald Drive.
The Reverend George Millward McDougall (1821-1876) and his son Reverend John McDougall (1842-1917) initiated the first settlement outside the walls of Fort Edmonton on this site in 1871. In 1860, Rev. George McDougall was given charge of Methodist missions throughout the Hudson's Bay Company territories, and two years later he first visited the Edmonton area where his son established the Victoria mission fifty miles down the North Saskatchewan River near present-day Pakan. In 1863 the Rev. George McDougall, his wife Elizabeth, and their family, including John McDougall, arrived at Victoria, where they stayed until June 1871. The McDougalls moved to Edmonton in 1871 and began construction of a two-storey parsonage at this site. During 1871-73 their first church was constructed here as well; this church can now be seen at Fort Edmonton Park.
Originally attracted by the availability of land following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company to the new Dominion of Canada, the mission soon formed the focal point of settlement along the eastern boundary of the Hudson's Bay Company Reserve, and became the seed for the first significant urban growth outside Fort Edmonton itself.

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.

6670 - 129 Avenue.
Packingtown, Alberta, officially the Village of North Edmonton, appeared with the arrival of the Canadian Northern Railway on the north side of the river in 1905. The unusual name reflected the numerous meatpacking plants that employed most residents, and the moniker stuck until Edmonton annexed the area in 1912.
The closest Roman Catholic priests lived in St. Albert, too far away to care for the rapidly increasing population. Bishop Vital Grandin, an Oblate, appealed to the Franciscans in Montreal to send missionaries. In 1908, Reverend Father Berchmans Mangin and Brother Raphael Quinn responded to the call, as did Father Arthur Rappard who conducted the first church service in Packingtown. One year later Father Boniface Heidmeier and Brother Andrew Chevalier became the first residents of a new friary, built here on land acquired by Bishop Emile Legal. Named after St. Francis of Assisi, the friary became the first permanent Franciscan monastery in western Canada. The missionaries subsequently built St. Francis School and St. Francis of Assisi Church on the same property.
In the 1920s, the priests hired local architect Edward Underwood and contractor J.P. Desrochers to build a simple, rectangular brick three-storey seminary, the Seraphic College for Franciscan Vocations. With seven postulants registered for the first classes in 1925, and twenty-seven the following year, the order immediately considered expansion. In 1931, Underwood and Desrochers designed an addition for sixty-five more students. The new wing added considerable architectural interest to the building. It featured the Collegiate Gothic style with a projected entry, stepped parapet extending from the roofline, niche for a religious statue over the entrance, and pointed arch windows featuring decorative keystones on the main floor. When a fire destroyed the original friary in 1934, repair workers built a new entrance for the original seminary, and renovated part of the addition to become the priests' residence. The college housed as many as ninety students a year. It has operated as a seminary, private school, and residence for young men.
Although a new church appeared here in the 1960s, after fire destroyed the original, the college closed a decade later. With deep commitment, generations of families in the Balwin neighbourhood supported the community of priests. St. Francis of Assisi stood as the headquarters of the Franciscans' mission in Edmonton and western Canada until 2005.

10825 - 97 Street.
St. Josaphat Cathedral is one of Edmonton's most beautiful and architecturally significant churches. Constructed between 1939 and 1947 the Byzantine Cathedral combines Roman, American Colonial and Renaissance design. Seven elaborate domes, a grand entrance, and rare and magnificent interior religious murals distinguish the church.
Father Philip Ruh, O.M.I., a priest who had studied architecture in Germany before being ordained in 1913, designed St. Josaphat. His first assignment was to serve in Ukraine where he became familiar with the highly ornamented style of Byzantine architecture. He arrived in Canada in 1911 to carry out missionary work among the Ukrainian settlers of Northern Alberta. Erected in part by the labour of the parishioners, the church cost $100,000 less to build than the estimated $250,000.
Among the interior highlights of the church are the spectacular tempera frescoes on the walls and domes. Professor Julian Bucmaniuk, an outstanding Ukrainian mural artist, painted most of the frescoes over a five-year period beginning in the 1950s. He immigrated to Canada in 1950 after teaching art in Europe. The frescoes are painted in the Baroque style, with dominant blue tones representing heaven and serenity, and yellow tones for brightness and tranquility.
In 1949, St. Josaphat was designated as a cathedral. The church has been home to the Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of Canada Arts and Crafts Museum for almost fifty years and holds artifacts that were brought to Canada or made by Ukrainian settlers. In 1984, St. Josaphat Cathedral was provincially designated as one of the most ornate places of worship in the Province.

10014 - 81 Avenue.
In 1902 a group of enterprising Lutheran families who had settled in Strathcona, formed their own congregation and built on this site the first Lutheran Church in the Edmonton area.
In 1914 the present building was erected to accommodate the ever-increasing congregation, and several additions have been made to the building over the years.
Throughout its long history as a church in this area, Trinity Lutheran has also been a focal point for many community services and activities.

8325 - 101 Street.
The consecration of the first Holy Trinity Anglican Church, originally located at 81 Avenue and 100 Street, took place on November 26, 1893. In its early years, the parish was a mission for the areas of Colchester, Clearwater, Leduc and Conjuring Creek.
The original frame building was moved to this site in 1900, and the first rectory was built in 1902. The basement for the existing church was dug in 1906, and the building, constructed of tapestry or "clinker" brick was opened on October 12, 1913, at a cost of $36,000. It was designed in a modified English gothic style by Strathcona architects Henry and Arthur Whiddington. The organ, which was purchased in1923, serves as a memorial to the 46 parishioners who died in the First World War. The interior features beautiful stained glass windows and crafted dark wood paneling.

8325 - 101 Street.
The consecration of the first Holy Trinity Anglican Church, originally located at 81 Avenue and 100 Street, took place on November 26, 1893. In its early years, the parish was a mission for the areas of Colchester, Clearwater, Leduc and Conjuring Creek.
The original frame building was moved to this site in 1900, and the first rectory was built in 1902. The basement for the existing church was dug in 1906, and the building, constructed of tapestry or "clinker" brick was opened on October 12, 1913, at a cost of $36,000. It was designed in a modified English gothic style by Strathcona architects Henry and Arthur Whiddington. The organ, which was purchased in1923, serves as a memorial to the 46 parishioners who died in the First World War. The interior features beautiful stained glass windows and crafted dark wood paneling.