No Room for the Inn
The Bruin Centre, St. Albert >
Curb Appeal
Curb Appeal | End of the Line
Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s private campaign car pulled into the Aspen Crossing faux-railway station in 2006 >
Rentals and Restorations
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. >
Starkness on the Edge of Town
Uproot a shiny downtown skyscraper, haul it to the edge of town and lay it horizontally among steel factories and cement plants, and you’ve got northwest Edmonton’s OEM Remanufacturing. >
Downtown Debate Club
A century ago, the Camrose Canadian Club was the toniest time-killer in town. While billiard tables took up the main floor, an upstairs reading room offered international periodicals as fodder for heated discussions. >
The Street Comes Indoors
Despite municipal anti-graffiti campaigns, don’t expect Matt Amero and Jason Ritchie to scour the walls of their Icon Hair Gallery in downtown Edmonton. >
Permanent Record
What’s that you say? Can a record store thrive in a trendy Calgary ’hood? You bet, says Recordland owner Armand Cohen, who claims he’s selling even more vinyl these days than back in the ’80s and ’90s. >
Prophets to Profits
WHETHER IT IS DIVINE INTERVENTION or just plain old business smarts, Cheryl McMann will probably never know for certain why business is so good. >
The Biggest Little Railway
“A HOBBY GONE BAD,” ANTON SCHEIWILLER SAYS by way of describing Ultimate Trains, the model train store and summer tourist attraction he runs with his wife, Joan, in Nanton. Behind the brightly coloured storefront, just off Highway 2 about an hour south of Calgary, lies if not the largest then the busiest “garden railway” layout in North America, with 22 G-gauge trains running simultaneously. >
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