“Diversity is the primary characteristic of Mill Woods. There’s ethnic diversity, there’s housing diversity. It’s a very diverse place. For who have lived here for more than 30 years, it’s…
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It may look like a huge spaceship has landed in an industrial area in southeast Edmonton, but it is something far more earthly—the Davies LRT Station. The only elevated station…
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Avonmore is a typical mature Edmonton residential neighbourhood named for a very atypical character. An advertisement of Golden Homes built in Avonmore. The model shown here has a front bedroom…
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"Bonnie Doon" is a phrase in a Robbie Burns poem that refers to the River Doon in Scotland. It’s also the name of a vibrant neighbourhood in south central Edmonton. In 1910,…
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Have you heard the story of how emigration from Saskatchewan got started in Edmonton? A farmer from that province got stuck in the inside lane of the Bonnie Doon traffic…
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Dr. James Brander was born in Northport, Nova Scotia in 1879 and graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with an M.D. in 1906. He specialised in pediatrics and continued…
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Percy Sollitt was born in 1900 in a small house that was a few doors away from the corner of a section of Edmonton later to be known as Bonnie…
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“I would say it’s the boulevard trees, people love the trees. It’s the common area the school. It’s the proximity to downtown. This used to be the suburbs. People moved…
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“Coming back into a community with French immersion and seeing the vibrance and the culture and the language thriving in a school like this was absolutely a joy. And especially…
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Erik Backstrom has lived in Strathearn since the late 1990s and has seen a fair bit of evolution that Edmonton neighbourhoods go through first hand. River lots 21 and 23…
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