“Put my city on my back!”
One of my facebook friends recently got the Edmonton skyline tattooed on his back.
I didn’t know the image of downtown Edmonton was so appealing.
maybe edmonton
An attempt to fall in love with Edmonton, Alberta (plus added diversions)
Posts tagged Alberta
May17
Edmonton after dark. Lone wolf adventures.
“Edmonton Alberta’s first radio station, AM 930 CJCA was established 90 years ago. They currently carry a Contemporary Christian station known as “The Light.”
Woodwards, Southgate Mall, Edmonton, AB, 1982.
Fun fact: I got caught shoplifting teddybears and novelty socks from here in Grade 6.
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh attend the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton in 1978.
Evergreen Lodge’s informal Western Night.
![“James Gladstone, or Akay-na-muka, meaning “Many guns,” Canada’s first native senator (b at Mountain Hill, North-West Territories 21 May 1887; d at Fernie, BC 4 Sept 1971). Gladstone, a member of the BLOOD tribe, devoted most of his life to the betterment of Canadian Aboriginals. He was president of the Indian Association of Alta (IAA) and 3 times was a delegate to Ottawa to discuss proposed changes in the INDIAN ACT. He played a prominent part in the fight for better education, greater respect for treaty rights, and participation of Aboriginals in their own administration. On 1 February 1958 he was appointed to the Senate of Canada and in his maiden speech he spoke in Blackfoot “to place in the official debates a few words in the language of my people, the Blackfoot Indians, as a recognition of the first Canadians.” In the Senate, Gladstone spoke strongly on issues that affected Aboriginals.” [via]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m45900QDqQ1qdt6jzo1_500.jpg)
“James Gladstone, or Akay-na-muka, meaning “Many guns,” Canada’s first native senator (b at Mountain Hill, North-West Territories 21 May 1887; d at Fernie, BC 4 Sept 1971). Gladstone, a member of the BLOOD tribe, devoted most of his life to the betterment of Canadian Aboriginals. He was president of the Indian Association of Alta (IAA) and 3 times was a delegate to Ottawa to discuss proposed changes in the INDIAN ACT. He played a prominent part in the fight for better education, greater respect for treaty rights, and participation of Aboriginals in their own administration. On 1 February 1958 he was appointed to the Senate of Canada and in his maiden speech he spoke in Blackfoot “to place in the official debates a few words in the language of my people, the Blackfoot Indians, as a recognition of the first Canadians.” In the Senate, Gladstone spoke strongly on issues that affected Aboriginals.” [via]
Edmonton rock and rollers - The Sugar Beats, Gordy Gray of The Rock-A-Tunes, The Famous Last Words, and The Pharoahs, ca. 1958-1963.
(Source: storify.com)
May6
Remind me not to piss anyone off in Abbotsfield.
Deezy tha Don - Rep Ya Set
(thanks Repeat Pattern!)
Drawings of the Hudson’s Bay Fort in Edmonton and a Lodge officer in the historical register of my Lodge from 1922.
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