Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s private campaign car pulled into the Aspen Crossing faux-railway station in 2006 >
In 2006, the year of its 100th anniversary, Edmonton-based PCL Constructors Ltd. opened the Centennial Learning Centre, a bricks-and-mortar campus for its previously homeless College of Construction >
The original Imperial Bank of Canada building, completed in 1908, once featured downtown Edmonton’s greatest colonnaded facade. >
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. >
Since the early 1970s, the rocket in the playground at the David Thompson Resort has towered more than three storeys at the side of Highway 11, no doubt inspiring countless back seat campaigns to convince parents to stop en route to mountain getaways >
Set apart from Edmonton’s collection of Brutalism-era bunkers and curtain-wall skyscrapers are two winners of the Massey Medal, the highest honour awarded to Canadian architecture back when the buildings were completed in 1967. >
They may not look out of the ordinary, but the new petrol pumps in downtown Turner Valley are a glimpse of a greener future. >
When Eaton’s began offering pre-fab houses through its catalogue in 1912, western homesteaders could purchase a basic model for $890. >
The Shelby Cobra bursting from the facade of Urban Headlights is from an era a bit before owner Bruce Urban’s time. >
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. >
Calgary architect Fred Valentine remembers Nova Corp. of Alberta CEO Robert Blair as deriving from a “19th century tradition.” >
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