Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina

Four amazing pyramids, endless opportunities for discovery.
Muttart Conservatory pyramids are indeed a “jewel in the arctic”. With eight months of the year shrouded in wintry weather, Edmonton is the most populous northern city in Canada. Naturally, if you live here you would develop a craving for other earthly climes especially in the middle of winter.

Edmonton heritage

Source: Edmonton History

A Salute to Edmonton’s History
What makes Edmonton special to me is city’s history. This history lets me discover and know where we’ve been and has indeed paved the way to what we’ve become!

Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina

Historic Hostelry
I heard people say: ‘If you see this hotel in your sights, run the other directions!’ I agree this place is a total dump. It stinks with spilled brews, totally unclean and serves too many risky patrons. I was terrified of this place, but it was declared a Historical Site and nothing could be done through the years to convince the Transit Management to make improvements.

Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina
Pictures and text: from C2E forum

The North Saskatchewan River snakes its way through the city with a long green belt of parkland running along both banks. This is North America’s largest stretch of city parkland, one long recreational area strewn with cycling paths and trails.

Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina

Iconic structure arose again on original site.
The other day on my way to Shaw Convention centre I passed by the newly built ‘Alberta Hotel’ on Jasper Avenue. What an incredible building. It’s been rebuild from pieces lying in storage since the historic structure was demolished 25 years ago.

Fringe festival

Text: Marcus Fernando
Pictures: Zdenko Kahlina

FRINGEOPOLIS…
Take a historic neighborhood, add dozens of different venues, stir in performers from around the world, throw in a few hundred thousand audience members and let it grow over 11 days. The result: one Fringe Festival.

Discovering Edmonton

Source: C2E Portal
Edmonton statues
Today I visited Edmonton’s outdoor statues and photographed them. I present them here in the order that I photographed them. The scary thing is that I knew only three of those people.

Edmonton heritage

By Zdenko Kahlina

Fond memories of Edmonton’s past
Edmonton has been my home base or home city for a several decades now. I moved here from Croatia with my family in 1989. So, I do remember some of the old things mentioned here.

Edmonton heritage

Source: C2E Portal
Rail travel in Edmonton
The CN office tower in Edmonton presides over an abandoned rail yard that’s now being converted into yet another one of the many condo developments that are cropping up around the city in its most recent boom.

Edmonton heritage

Source: The Edmonton Radial Railway Society’s
 
Early in 1903 the engineers of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway (C & ER), which had reached Strathcona in 1891, began surveys for a possible crossing of the North Saskatchewan River to reach Edmonton. In early May of 1903 the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) purchased the C & ER so any new railroad bridge would be built by CPR.

Edmonton heritage

Source: C2E Portal
 Edmonton Historic Building Tour 
The majority of surviving heritage structures were born at about the same time as Edmonton itself. This means that most have just reached, or are about to reach their centenary soon.

Edmonton heritage

Source: C2E Forum
As promised long time ago, here’s round 3 of Edmonton’s downtown core and area.

Edmonton heritage

By: Emil Tiedemann

Edmonton’s Independent Cinema showcases alternative films seven days a week…
I know what you’re thinking, that what could the Princess Theatre possibly bring to the table that’s any different from all those multi-plex movie theatres sprawled throughout the city?

Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina
 At this time of a year it might be a good thing to remind yourself on nice and warm weather we have had here during the summer and forget for a moment on showeling the snow. Last summer my wife and I were enjoying some great weather during the Fringe festival and were walking along the Whyte Avenue.

Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina
Ride into history.
Do you know that Edmonton has its own street car? Last summer during the Fringe festival, because of the parking problem in Old Strathcona, my wife and I decided to ride the streetcar.

Edmonton, July 31 – August 2, 2010

By: Zdenko Kahlina
I am always excited in the summer, when Heritage Days festival begins!  It’s part of Edmonton and it’s a lot of fun.

Edmonton heritage

From C2E forum
Edmonton is a newborn in terms of most European or Asian Cities. As you may notice from the following photos, the building material of choice in those days was plain red brick.

Edmonton heritage

From C2E forum
Edmonton is a newborn in terms of most European or Asian Cities. As you may notice from the following photos, the building material of choice in those days was plain red brick.