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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=14550</guid> <description><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s private campaign car pulled into the Aspen Crossing faux-railway station in 2006 <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=13895</guid> <description><![CDATA[Forget the corner office. Patti Morris, executive director at Wellspring Calgary, a charity that runs programs for recovering cancer patients, has an even more enviable workspace <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=13391</guid> <description><![CDATA[by Geoff Morgan With country and western guitar twanging in the background and leather wares and cowboy hats hanging from the store’s front windows, George’s Harness and Saddlery would fit seamlessly as a backdrop in a Clint Eastwood western. But &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2010/10/curb-appeal-main-street-cowboy/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=12541</guid> <description><![CDATA[Old books, tin globes, antique furniture and a wood-burning stove – the hub of Blackbird Coffee House – sit proudly under an enormous blue fresco on the ceiling of what was once Coleman’s Catholic parish. Owner and proprietor Kym Howse &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2010/09/curb-appeal-a-wing-and-a-prayer/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=11868</guid> <description><![CDATA[Curb Appeal by Geoff Morgan When the Canadian Pacific Railway advertised the West’s rich soil as the most fertile land in the world, the Toogood family left Newmarket, England, in a hurry. Their final steam whistle sounded in Chancellor, once &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2010/08/lonely-hall-on-the-prairie/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/2010/07/parkade-paradise/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Curb Appeal by Max Fawcett Surely, this wasn’t what Canadian songstress Joni Mitchell had in mind when she penned “Big Yellow Taxi” over 40 years ago. Yet instead of paving paradise and putting up a parking lot, it appears that &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2010/07/parkade-paradise/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=9809</guid> <description><![CDATA[“If you’ve seen the old building,” says Tim Garrett, “it’s like day and night.” by Scott Messenger Manager of Alberta Motor Association properties, Garrett doesn’t show a hint of nostalgia for the squat, log cabin-like structure that was the AMA’s &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2010/05/members-only/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=9189</guid> <description><![CDATA[Besides the Last Chance Saloon and attached Rosedeer Hotel, there’s not much left of Wayne, a hamlet set in a dusty coulee just south of Drumheller. by Scott Messenger Coal mining started here in the Badlands in 1912, boosting the &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://albertaventure.com/?p=8343</guid> <description><![CDATA[Really want to know if Alberta’s stalled economy is rolling again? by Scott Messenger Talk to guys who deal in its moving parts. Eddy Stahl, dealer principal and president of west Edmonton’s Stahl Peterbilt, believes it’s gaining traction. Sales of &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=7748</guid> <description><![CDATA[During the early 20th century, the Hudson’s Bay Company traded clapboard outlets for stately modern edifices. by Scott Messenger From Victoria to Toronto, empty lots sprouted multi-level department stores – architectural and economic anchors for Canada’s burgeoning downtown cores. Calgary’s &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2010/02/down-by-the-bay/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=7065</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 2006, the year of its 100th anniversary, Edmonton-based <a
href="http://www.pcl.com">PCL Constructors Ltd.</a> opened the Centennial Learning Centre, a bricks-and-mortar campus for its previously homeless College of Construction <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2010/01/construction-101/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=6527</guid> <description><![CDATA[The original Imperial Bank of Canada building, completed in 1908, once featured downtown Edmonton’s greatest colonnaded facade. by Scott Messenger Picture a Greco-Roman temple fronted by four-storey columns and Ionic capitals. You have to imagine it because it was demolished &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=5789</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two years ago, after a decade of Sundays spent bowling five-pin at Calgary’s Paradise Lanes, Greg and Linda Decksheimer decided to buy the place. by Scott Messenger Bob Miller, owner for 40 years, had recently passed away and the Decksheimers &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2009/11/memory-lanes/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=3456</guid> <description><![CDATA[When Eaton’s began offering pre-fab houses through its catalogue in 1912, western homesteaders could purchase a basic model for $890. The Toronto-based company would ship everything from floorboards to shingles for pickup by customers at their nearest train stations. That’s &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2009/07/home-delivery/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=3239</guid> <description><![CDATA[When Edmonton’s Transit Hotel was on the block this past winter, a “good history of occupancy” ranked amongst the property’s top selling features. Benjamin Lemphers/Epic Photography No kidding. It’s been 101 years since the hotel opened in what had been &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2009/05/historic-hostelry/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=3134</guid> <description><![CDATA[Calgary architect Fred Valentine remembers Nova Corp. of Alberta CEO Robert Blair as deriving from a “19th century tradition.” Photograph by George Webber The headquarters Blair envisioned for the ’80s and ’90s Calgary-based pipeline and petrochemical company needed to impress, &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2009/04/cutting-edge-design/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=3081</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Bruin Centre, St. Albert by Scott Messenger When progress came calling in 2000 for St. Albert’s venerable Bruin Inn, even retired NHL centre Mark Messier, a former resident of the suburban city, felt the loss. “I remember when I &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=3027</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the early 1990s, just after Budget Rent A Car franchisee Mohamed Ali opened regional offices and a new store in an abandoned, downtown Calgary fire hall, the company’s president visited from Chicago. by Scott Messenger “When he saw it,” &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2009/02/rentals-and-restorations/">Continue reading <span
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