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| Title: | Edmonton in Our Own Words
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| Author: | Linda Goyette & Carolina Jakeway Roemmich |
| ISBN: | 0888644280 : 9780888644282 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 463 |
| Weight: | 1.128 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - October 2004 |
| List Price: | 33.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Social & cultural history: Canada |
Imagine a conversation between Edmonton’s past inhabitants and its living citizens. What would we tell the rest of the world about our place on the map? What stories would we tell with tears in our eyes, or laughter, or pride? The official publication of the City of Edmonton’s Centennial, 'Edmonton In Our Own Words' includes many unfamiliar photographs from private collections, historic maps and a timeline of Edmonton’s history. As the city celebrates its past and future, readers will enjoy the personal stories of eyewitnesses and descendants explaining, arguing, crying, scolding, laughing and interrupting one another in a city’s evolving conversation with itself. Linda Goyette and Carolina Roemmich have tapped Edmonton’s collective memoir, through the written record, the spoken stories and the vast silences. All of the people who ever lived at this bend in the North Saskatchewan took part in creating the city we know as Edmonton. They have plenty to tell us.
"...an unblinking look at our shared past, and the portrait presented by Goyette and Roemmich is a warts-and-all affair, giving voice to many people whose histories have too often been overlooke...Goyette is an engaging writer and a grand storyteller." -- Marc Horton, The Edmonton Journal. "Edmonton In Our Own Words is everything a centennial history of the city should be: richly detailed, frankly informative, sweeping in scope and ambitious. But it is much more. It is a thoroughly absorbing work, the kind one opens for a quick look, emerging hours later with a sense of having time-travelled." -- Canadian Geographic, January/February 2005. "Through traditional aboriginal stories about the earliest travellers along the North Saskatchewan River; oral history, diaries, letters, and archival records of nineteenth century inhabitants; and the recollections of living citizens, Edmonton's history is told in the words of the people who have called this city home." -- Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004
