Learning about Edmonton

It's been really interesting learning some of Edmonton's history that I had never ever heard of before. Seriously, I knew nothing, and had fallen into the trap of thinking Edmonton was only 100 years young. But the past two weeks, and especially the poems, have made me think of Edmonton as olllldddd. And made me wanna know more. Instead of just wikipedia-ing (Jarrod :P), I tried to find some books through the uni's library databases, and the first twenty(!) things that came up when I typed "Edmonton" into the NEOS search engine were: fatality reports for Alberta Employment and Immigration. Ummm...not quite what I was looking for. Creepy and weird. So I changed my search to "Edmonton History" and the first hit was Polish (lol awesome) and the second was about great cities of Christendom from 1500-1600, and the third was about New Brunswick. What? Where is my Edmonton history? I'm not even wikipedia-ing! Ok, after the tenth hit it got better. Here are some of the interesting and relevant books for those of you too lazy to look:

 

Looking back: child saving in the City of Edmonton, 1900-1971

Reichwein, Baldwin P.

 

When Edmonton was young,Cashman, Tony

Edmonton Horticultural Society 1909-2009 celebrates a century of gardening in Edmonton

Edmonton Horticultural Society.

Edmonton's musical pathways : a study in narrative and emplacement

Turner, Toscha Lorene.

A tribute to Peter Oliver / edited by Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry and John T. Saywell

Phillips, Jim, 1954-

Old Strathcona before the Great Depression

Monto, Tom, 1961-

River lot 5 : a home for the university, June 7, 1907

University of Alberta. Learning Services.

Capital modern : a guide to Edmonton architecture & urban design, 1940-1969

Boddy, Trevor, 1953-

Forever champions

Brignall, Richard.

Fallen empires : lost theatres of Edmonton, 1881-1914

Orrell, John, 1934-

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine : madness and murder in the Arctic barren lands  Random House Trade Pbk. ed.

Jenkins, McKay, 1963-

Then, now & next : 100 years of Edmonton labour

Edmonton Trades and Labour Council.

The meeting place at the bend in the river : an examination of the Fort Edmonton cemetery/Aboriginal burial ground, Edmonton, Alberta

Cunningham, Pamela Marie.

Kidmonton : true stories of River City kids

Goyette, Linda, 1955-

Castles to forts : a true history of Edmonton  1st ed.

Coutu, Phillip R., 1953-

 

And of course there are more, though not all (even on this list) are available at UofA and will need to be requested from other places. I will be checking some of these out!