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The Hudson’s Bay Co. Houses

Beginning in 1920, the Hudson’s Bay Company embarked on a campaign to make a small model community north of downtown Edmonton.

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The Canadian Bank of Commerce

Downtown Edmonton’s C.I.B.C. stands as the city’s last pre-Second World War banking hall still used for its original purpose.

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The Carnegie Library

In the words of Todd Babiak, our old central library “is one of the icons of a lost Edmonton, a phantom Edmonton, a victim of the boom-and-bust psychology that has defined the city since its earliest days.”

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The Origins of H.M.C.S. Nonsuch

Edmonton’s “stone frigate” lived up to its motto, A Campis ad Maria — “from the prairies to the sea” — during the Second World War. Over its course this inland ship trained 3,582 sailors.

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The Edmonton Indian Residential School

If you drive out to the site today, you’d be hard pressed to find the signs of cultural genocide. Where it happened doesn’t look special; it could be ‘Anywhere, Alberta.’ But long ago it was once home to the Edmonton Indian Residential School.

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel School

This Catholic school stands as the last of four similarly styled buildings erected by the Separate System during the “Roaring ‘20s.”

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The Holden Cenotaph

Out of Town Distractions

Hiding away in Holden — the tiny Albertan village time forgot — lies one of the province’s most striking war memorials.

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The Twin Cemeteries

St. Joachim and Edmonton Municipal Cemeteries are the resting place of many of Edmonton’s founding figures.

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