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The Edmonton Cenotaph

Edmonton was one of the last major cities in Canada to build a monument remembering the Great War. Its citizens banded together to change that — the memorial they erected is a solemn and dignified cairn for its war-dead.

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Stone’s Meat Market

Before Kind Ice Cream brought fame to this Highlands corner, another business did: Stone’s Meats.

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Street Railway Substation No.600

It may be small, but 124th Street’s “stalwart brick castle” is one of the only reminders of Edmonton’s long-abandoned streetcar system.

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Fire Hall No.7

Most’ll know it as a popular Montrose delicatessen, but this sausage house was once a trendsetting piece of municipal infrastructure.

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The Hudson’s Bay Co. Store

The story of modern-day Edmonton is intrinsically linked with ‘the Bay’. Their former downtown store serves as a monument to their role in building the city.

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