LEST WE FORGET MEMORIAL PARK Four years after the conclusion of World War One, a group of Lacombe women joined together to erect a monument which would express publicly the private sentiments of the townspeople.
LETHBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1922 The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, located on the south side of Galt Gardens, originally housed the first public library in Lethbridge.
MAPLE LEAF SCHOOL An increase in school enrolments in the Bellevue area prompted the erection of a new four room school in 1924.
MARGARET MARSHALL RESIDENCE Katharine Tardrew “spinster,” received this lot in 1914, probably as a wedding gift, from Mary Tardrew “married woman”, who had purchased it that year. Katharine became “wife of William Ping Williams,” and in July 1914, he received a $2,000 permit for this, the smallest lot in The Highlands.
MARILYN MANOR Marilyn Manor provides an example of post-World War II architecture in Cliff Bungalow.
MASONIC TEMPLE In the forty years which followed the formation of Edmonton’s first lodge in 1893, another twelve or so had been constituted, but no substantial meeting hall had been built.
MCLEOD BLOCK The McLeod Block became an instant Edmonton landmark when it was completed in 1915. The crowning glory of Kenneth McLeod’s career as a businessman and developer, this was the city’s tallest building at the time, a distinction it retained for almost forty years
METALS BUILDING Development gradually moved west from the eastern edge of the Hudson’s Bay Reserve at 101 Street – especially after the land sale of 1912 – and by 1914 the east side of 104 Street from Jasper Avenue was heavily developed with substantial brick warehouses.
MISSION BRIDGE Photos from 1915 illustrating the construction of the current reinforced concrete bridge show what appears to be metal trusses on the neighbouring bridge it is replacing.
MITCHELL RESIDENCE Two themes predominate in the long life of Frederick John Mitchell: politics and sports. One of Edmonton’s longest serving alderman, he spent 24 years on City Council, from 1941 to 1964.
