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| Title: | Edmonton in Our Own Words
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| Author: | Linda Goyette & Carolina Jakeway Roemmich |
| ISBN: | 0888644493 : 9780888644497 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 463 |
| Weight: | .969 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - April 2005 |
| List Price: | 26.99 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.
A Bend in the River to 1700; The Meeting Place 1700 to 1869; The Manitou Stone 1870 to 1891; Newcomers 1892 to 1913; The Emerging City 1914 to 1946; The New City 1947 to 2004; Index.
"...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. "... richly detailed, frankly informative, sweeping in scope and ambitious... 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. "...Edmonton's history is told in the words of the people who have called this city home." -- Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004. "...history blockbuster. More than two years in the making... It chronicles a century of native, cultural, industrial, and social history, with generous space devoted to letters and anecdotes from Edmontonians present and deceased..." -- Lisa Gregoire, Quill & Quire Magazine, November 2005.
