Editor’s Note: This article was written in 2018, long before Covid. Stories of Red Deer’s earliest Halloween celebrations By Michael Dawe Another Halloween will soon be...
By Shawn I. Smith, Canadian Northern Society It’s a Saturday afternoon in June in the quiet Village of Big Valley. Visitors admire the splendid heritage...
Historic Game and Overlooked Award From now until a winner of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy is awarded a few months from now, millions of words...
One of our city’s most historic and iconic homes is on the market. The Magrath Mansion is located in the Highlands. The neighbourhood was conceived in...
The Malthus Problem Almost everyone reading this will have had somewhere between a great grandparent or great great great grandparent who was alive when Darwin went...
A curious mind can lead you in all sorts of unexpected directions, as Chris Chang-Yen Phillips has discovered with his podcast, Let’s Find Out. He created...
byMichael Dawe Another Christmas will soon be upon us. Since people often like to recall “old-fashioned” traditional Christmases, it is interesting to look back to the...
Here’s some history from the Sylvan Lake and District Archives about one of Sylvan Lake’s oldest buildings, what is now the Hazzard County Bar and Grill....
The picture is of the Elliott family and their guests gathered on the porch of their Sylvan Lake cottage (circa 1930). From left to right: Mrs....
Introducing 2018 Inductees Tonight, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame will host the 2018 Induction Banquet in honour of our newest inductees at the Sheraton Red...
