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Amazing example of building reuse in Edmonton: La Bosco Bakery & Cafe at 10413 79 Avenue NW. labosco.ca 
It was originally built in 1953 as a storage garage for Manbro Ltd (was there ever a more testosterone-laden business name?), part of the Manning Lumber companies owned by Percy Manning. At the time Manning Lumber was located between 79 & 80 Aves where the Brooks NOFRILLS now is.
But the building quickly became an auto body shop. An auto upholstery business took it over in the 1960s and then in the mid-1970s, a transmission shop moved in.
Promising news for the Koermann Block on 96 Street: City Council has agreed to sell the site for below market value for affordable housing on the condition that the building is protected as a Municipal Historic Resource. #yegheritage globalnews.ca/news/9520645/e…
Many people are know that Strathcona had a significant German community 100+ yrs ago because aspects of it (e.g. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, K&K Foodliner) still exist, but downtown Edmonton had one too. Here's a map of German families prior to 1914. sites.ualberta.ca/~german/Albert…
One of the leaders of this community was Gustave Koermann, editor of the Alberta Herold, a German-language weekly published on Namayo Ave (97 St). Born in Dortmund in 1865, he came to the US in 1881 and ran a German paper in Winnipeg for 15 years before coming to Edmonton.
Tim's tweet prompted me to look into the history of a building on 109 Street I've always wondered about. Why *does* it look like a ruin? #yegheritage #yeghistory
The building appears to have been built in 1911 by the Canadian Locomobile Co. Ltd. Just a few years after the first car arrived in Edmonton in 1904, Canadian Locomobile was selling Hupmobiles & Pathfinders in a crowded auto sales market.
The building took up the entire lot on the corner of Ninth & Victoria (109 St & 100 Ave) and was so large that it was used for boxing matches that outsold smaller venues.
There's a 120 year old house in Mill Woods?! Yes, there is. It's the Place place, and it's up for sale. #yeghistory #yegheritage realtor.ca/real-estate/25…
William Place was born in Ogdensburg, NY in 1843. After marrying Lucretia Hill of Morrisburg, ON, the couple moved to Edmonton, where Lucretia's brother lived. In 1902 they bought a farm south of town and promptly replaced its log house with the frame house still standing today.
Here's a picture of the Place children Elzetta and George at the time they lived in the house.
There's lots of talk on Twitter today about whether we should take down the Grey Nuns mural in the Grandin LRT station. I talked about that issue of @aaronpaquette last winter, as part of @AlbertaUnbound. Here's an excerpt. #yeg #yegheritage
Here's my whole conversation with Aaron about truth, reconciliation, the intergenerational legacy of residential schools, and how we, as Albertans and Canadians, need to confront (and depict) that history. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s2-… @aaronpaquette @AlbertaUnbound
Aaron and I recorded that conversation in December - before the horrible details of the Kamloops burials were known, but with both of us well aware of the horrific legacy of residential schools. But I feel as if last week's news was an epiphany and turning point for many.
On #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay - I wanted to share the story of Jane Flett MacKay, the matriarch you in the the centre of this photo, a remarkable Edmontonian, whose story may not be one you know. #yeg #yegheritage
She was born in 1857. Her father was from the Orkney Islands in the far north of Scotland. Her mother was a member of thr Geich’in First Nation, in the Mackenzie Delta.
In 1874, Jane married William Morrison MacKay, a Scottish physician who was working as a Hudson Bay Company doctor. Eventually, he became Chief Factor of Fort Chipewyan. Jane became his nurse and surgical assistant.
