Edmonton downtown Buildings, University of Alberta
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This family movie from 1942 features shots of many prominent buildings and locations of the time including the Edmonton Stock Yards, CFRN building, YMCA Building, streetcar, Woodwards, Hudson's Bay Building, CN Station, Canada Packers, the Hotel MacDonald, University of Alberta, Legislative Building and more.
From the Losie family fonds, Provincial Archives of Alberta, PR2002.0241.0032. For more information please visit bit.ly/2y4ulmq
About 5 years before my time. The train stations, department stores , Famers market, Post Office were still up but street cars and old trolleys gone.
Saw the coolest veterans parade in 1962. Even the WW1 vets were well represented. Lots of marchers.
Had a wonderful time watching this. My memories still match up with your pictures. Spend many hours reliving the innocent time of my youth. Thanks
I would be born here 21 years later, and Edmonton would be become a better place.
My dad is in his nineties now and he will enjoy watching this with me. Over the years I have heard many stories of his time as a boy and a teenager. I have been looking for videos from the time when he was growing up in Beverly/Edmonton and this video hits the mark. If I had one minor criticism it would be that someone could overlay some labels about what the various images are. I remember the giant milk bottle. I recognize many of the structures. I think that maybe some of the homes are from the Highlands community…maybe? I do wish that it had been economically viable to preserve a bit more of the buildings in the video that no longer exist, but what can you do? Note that downtown was more vibrant in days gone by. But there are many things that are better than they once were too. What a world! (Twenty years from now, when climate change brings worldwide economic collapse, 2024 will live dearly in the survivors’ hearts too. But then again, survivors will just be happy to have fresh water and food that is not human flesh. 😁) Thank you so much for posting this. This is great!
Major Kudos go out to all the Edmontonians of the past and present who have had the foresight to preserve our glorious river valley. The video reveals that, while much has changed over the past eighty plus years, our river valley looks much the same today as it did then. Because whenever developers have tried to to “enhance”/dismantle our river valley piece by piece, we have told them to take a hike, Edmonton has one of the greatest urban park systems in the world.
kind of sad to think a lot of these buildings are now gone/ i'm only glad they kept the Canada packers smoke stack when they built the new ( ugly) bus garage
Amazing to see how peaceful it was here considering what was going on in the world at the time also the year of this recording I would not be born for another 45 years lol thanks for this upload
I remember watching those stock yards and capital packers burn to ash.
They took this from you.
The alien lizard people, no doubt. lol
Who did?
16:45
what is this?
Chinese pheasant
Meanwhile back in Germany....
I spent my younger years growing up in Riverdale and at 13 worked at Family drugs on 97st. & Jasper Ave. The Coffee Cup was across the street on the left and W W Arcade was on the other. No liquor sales on Sunday so I sold rubbies rubbing alcohol for a dollar a bottle. We made a killing, Ah the good old days
Drug stores sold booze than?
Ah, The Coffee Cup! My dad often took me to WW Arcade when we were looking for camping or fishing gear, but I had forgotten about The Coffee Cup.