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Selected articles about Edmonton's movers and shakers from Lawrence Herzog's online columns
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- The School Named For A Custodian
- Saluting Community Achievement
- Mayors of Boom Time
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Incline Railway
- Edmonton Mayors 1910 to 1920
Abraham Abbott
Bert Almon
Harry Dean Ainlay
Pete Anderson
George Seale Armstrong
- More Lost Buildings of Edmonton
- When History Goes Up In Flames
- Saluting Community Achievement
- Edmonton's Mr. Entertainment
- Westglen School
- Homes of Strathcona Pioneers
- A House Fit For A Bard
- The Dame Eliza Chenier Residences
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2008 Plaques Awards
- Beverly’s First Mayor and the House He Built
- Westglen School
- The Flats Named for Gallagher
- The Bruin Inn
- Commemorating Local Landmarks
- Garneau Theatre A Moderne Masterpiece
- William Blakey's Designs on Edmonton
- Images of Boom Time
- Blanchett Neon: An Illuminating Story
- Home to Mayors, Movers and Shakers
- Mayors of the Roaring Twenties
- The Residence That John Ross Built
- A Lifetime Through the Lens
- Lambton Block
- The Temple The Masons Built
- The Bremner House
- Echoes of Ernest Brown
- William Brown Residence
- Ingebert Olson Residence
- Recognizing Places in History
- Cecil Burgess Residence
- Portraits of Time
- Westmount, Edmonton's Beauty Spot
- Mayors of the Roaring Twenties
- Mayors of the Depression Years
- Bill Butchart Designed Schools To Last
Arthur George Baalim
Steve Bach
Tommy Banks
Delmar Bard
Joseph A. Beauchamp
Gustave Bergman
Mel Binder
William Bird
William Blakey
Eric Bland
George Richard Blanchett
Kenneth Blatchford
John Blue
Alfred Blythe
John Robert Boyle
Edward Braithwaite
James Charles Chatterton Bremner
Ernest Brown
William Brown
William Gladstone Brown
Cecil Burgess
Mortimer Burgess
Harold P. Burrell
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury
William (Bill) Walter Butchart
- Alfred Marigon Calderon: Designs of Style & Grace
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels - Part 2
- Appreciating St. Albert Place
- The Chandler Barn
- The Dame Eliza Chenier Residences
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2008 Plaques Awards
- The Lessons of History
- Sam the Popcorn Man
- Sweet Memories of the Palace of Sweets
- Edmonton's Pioneer Lumberman
- The Clarke and Fry Years
- Edmonton Mayors 1910 to 1920
- Electing the City Leaders
- History On Display
- Home to Mayors, Movers and Shakers
- Mayors of the Roaring Twenties
- The clover in Clover Bar
- The Dead Centre Of Town
- The House "Peace River Jim" Built
- The Beginnings of Edmonton's Jewish Community
- Edmonton's First Synagogue
- The Hotel Abraham Cristall Built
- Hotels As Places of Gathering
- The Lessons of History
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels - Part 2
Alfred Marigon Calderon
John Coleman Calhoun
Douglas Cardinal
Edgar W. Chandler
Dame Eliza Chenier
Sam Cherniak
A.R. Chisholm
William Harold Clark
Joseph Andrew Clarke (Fighting Joe Clarke)
Thomas H. Clover
Joseph William Connelly
James Kennedy Cornwall
Abraham Cristall
- The Father of the Traffic Circle
- A.J. Davidson Sold Beverly
- The Davidson Residence
- More Strathcona Pioneer Homes
- Great Western Garments
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Incline Railway
- Alex Decoteau Ran Through His Life
- Edmonton's Track and Field Tradition
- The Lessons of History
- Charles Denney: A Life Well Lived
- Ivor Dent Had a Passion for People
- Edmonton Historical Board Announces 2007 Plaques
- The 'Flying Knight of the Northland'
- Edmonton Historical Board's 2011 Recognition Awards
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2008 Plaques Awards
- The Douglas Block
- Mayors of the Depression Years
- The Cabin Old Timers Built
- The Houses on Victoria Avenue
- Oliver's Stately Homes
- Edmonton's Fields of Dreams
- Play Ball! at Renfrew Park
- Mayors of the Roaring Twenties
- The Duggan Residence
- More Strathcona Pioneer Homes
- The Pioneers and Builders of Strathcona
- Hugh Duncan Residence
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
- George Durand Residence
Noel Dant
Adam James Davidson
Arthur Davies
Vern Davis
H.J. Dawson
Alex Wuttunee Decoteau
Charles Denney
Ivor Dent
Maxwell Dewar
C.H. "Punch" Dickins
Dr. Merrill Distad
Herb Dixon
James and Robert Douglas
James McCrie Douglas
Hobart Dowler
Lucien Dubuc
John Ducey
David Milwyn Duggan
John Joseph Duggan
Hugh Duncan
Francis Dunnigan
George Durand
- Home to A Sheriff, A Builder And A Vaudeville King
- Edmonton Mayors 1910 to 1920
- The Story of Sylvancroft
Alexander Entwistle
Harry Marshall Erskine Evans
- Leaders in Heritage - The Edmonton Historical Board Announces its 2004 Recognition Awards
- Telling The Old Glenora Story
- Saluting Community Achievement
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2008 Plaques Awards
- How Beverly Grew in the 1950s
- The Clarke and Fry Years
Margaret (Peggy) Farnell
Peggy O'Connor Farnell
Joelle Fawcett-Arsenault
Jack and Enid Fitzsimonds
Charles E. Floden
John Wesley Fry
- The Gainer Block Marks 100 Years
- The Pioneers and Builders of Strathcona
- Edmonton's 19th Century Mayors
- The Flats Named for Gallagher
- The Garneau Story
- Garneau Theatre A Moderne Masterpiece
- Protecting the Garneau Theatre
- The James Gibbons Residence
- A Riverdale House of Worship
- Leaders in Heritage - The Edmonton Historical Board Announces its 2004 Recognition Awards
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels
- Edmonton's First Mayors of the 20th Century
- Electing the City Leaders
- History On Display
- A Home For "Edmonton's Boy Mayor"
- Remembering The Ultimate Sacrifice
- William Griesbach: A Life of Service
- A Man Named Malcolm Groat
- The Grotski Residence
John Gainer
Cornelius Gallagher
Laurent Garneau
James Gibbons
Linda Goyette
Lillian Gregory
Edmund Del Grierson
William Griesbach
Malcolm Groat
John Grotski
- Edmonton’s Track and Field Tradition
- George Harcourt Residence
- Recognizing Places in History
- The Richards of Hardisty
- Westmount, Edmonton's Beauty Spot
- The Richards of Hardisty
- Westmount, Edmonton's Beauty Spot
- Ted Harrison Painted Paradise
- Electing the City Leaders
- Edmonton Mayors 1910 to 1920
- The Residence That John Ross Built
- Photos From The Heart
- Edmonton's First Ladies of Heritage
- The Jasper Block
- A Natural Born Builder
- New Life For The Block Hull Built
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Incline Railway
- Wallace Howe Residence
- Honouring George Hughes
- New Life For The Block Hull Built
- The Humberstone & Bush Coal Mines
- Hope Hunter Made a Giant Difference
- Leaders in Heritage - The Edmonton Historical Board Announces its 2004 Recognition Awards
- The Cabin Where Mel Hurtig Lived
- The Hyndman Residence
- Westglen School
Roy Haliburton
George Harcourt
Richard Charles Hardisty
Richard G. Hardisty
Ted Harrison
William Hawrelak
William Thomas Henry
Charles B. Hill
Hubert Hollingworth
June Honey
Edward Collis Hopkins
Joseph Hostyn
William Wallace Howe
George Hughes
William Roper Hull
William Humberstone
Hope Hunter
William D. (Bill) Hunter
Mel Hurtig
Lou Hyndman and Louis D. Hyndman
- Leaders in Heritage - The Edmonton Historical Board Announces its 2004 Recognition Awards
Kathryn Ivany
- The Lessons of History
- The Tradition Of Town Criers
- Beverly's Town Hall
- Edmonton's Early Telephone Exchanges
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels
- Fredrick S. Jones Residence
- Edmonton’s Track and Field Tradition (part 2)
- Edmonton’s Track and Field Tradition (part 2)
Peter Yule Jaimeson
Allan Merrick Jeffers
Con Johnson - aka Constantinos Yeanitchous or Giianitsiis
Fredrick S. Jones
Jesse Locksley Jones
Diane Jones-Konihowski
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
- The Farm Dr. Keillor Built
- How Keillor Farm Became an Equine Centre
- The Blocks Kelly and Ramsey Built
- Fire Strikes the Kelly and Ramsey Buildings
- The Jasper Block
- A Riverdale House of Worship
- Commerce at Edmonton's Imperial Bank
- Mayors of the Depression Years
Ava Karvonen
Dan Kauffman
Frederick Anson Keillor
John Kelly
Moon Chun-Su Kim
G.R.F. Kirkpatrick
Daniel Kennedy Knott
- Father Lacombe's Mission
- The End of an Era at LaFlèche Brothers
- Edmonton's First Ladies of Heritage
- The School Named for Percy Lawton
- Edmonton's First Mayors of the 20th Century
- A Downtown Room To Let
- The Lessons of History
- The Mansion Lemarchand Built
- The House Prosper Edmond Lessard Built
- The Houses on Victoria Avenue
- Vanished Buildings of the 1913 Boom
- A Legacy of Just Ten Year's Work
- Lamont County's Onion Domed Churches
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
- The Block A Blacksmith Built
- Looby the Blacksmith Built a Block
- The Heart and Soul of the City
Father Albert Lacombe
LaFlèche - including Tripoli J., Joseph A., LeRoi Sr. and LeRoi Jr.
Helen LaRose
Percy Benjamin Lawton
Robert E. Lee
Rene Lemarchand
Edmond Lessard
Roland W. Lines
Peter Lipinski
Amy Loewan
Edward Looby
Betty Loree
- George Heath MacDonald: A Lifelong Builder
- George Durand Residence
- Edmonton Historical Board's 2010 Recognition Awards
- Edmonton's Mr. History
- Honouring Local Landmarks
- Edmonton's First Mayors of the 20th Century
- The James Gibbons Residence
- The Block Dr. McLean Built
- Edmonton Historical Board's 2010 Recognition Awards
- Jock MacNeill and Twin City Transfer
- The Federal Building - A Forgotten Treasure
- The Legacy of Magoon and MacDonald
- The Alex Mair Way
- Oliver's Stately Homes
- The Margaret Marshall Residence
- Margaret Martin Residence
- The Buildings of Hardie and Martland
- Pioneer Photographer Charles Mathers
- Edmonton's First Mayors of the 20th Century
- From Cow Pasture to Airport
- A Mercy Flight To Fort Vermilion
- Wilfrid "Wop" May Opened Frontiers
- Edmonton's 19th Century Mayors
- Electing the City Leaders
- History On Display
- Matthew McCauley: A Man of Justice, Civic Commitment and Leadership
- Three Historic Schools Facing Closure
- The Houses on Victoria Avenue
- The McDermid Studios Story
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels
- Lost Mansions of the Rich and Famous
- McDougall United Church
- McDougall United Church - update
- Edmonton's 19th Century Mayors
- Edmonton's First Mayors of the 20th Century
- Lost Buildings of Edmonton
- The Lost Series: Lost Buildings
- The Story of John Alexander McDougall
- The Hilltop House On The Market
- John McIntosh Speculated on a Great Future
- Warehouses of the 4th Street Promenade
- Homes of Strathcona Pioneers
- The Pioneers and Builders of Strathcona
- The Pioneers and Builders of Strathcona
- Louise McKinney Fought For Personal Rights
- Eva McKitrick: A Walking Encyclopaedia of Local History
- Edmonton's Longest Serving Modern Residence
- Homes of Strathcona Pioneers
- The Story of Kenny McLeod
- Oliver's 100 Year Old Houses
- Edmonton Mayors 1910 to 1920
- Electing the City Leaders
- Lost Mansions of the Rich and Famous
- The Mercer Warehouse
- John Michaels: Read all about it!
- Mike's News Stand
- Westglen School
- Necolai Mischi - A Song in his Heart
- Lamont County's Onion Domed Churches
- The Molstad Residence
- The Molstad Residence
- The Houses of Ernest Morehouse
- The Mountafield Residence
- Oliver's Stately Homes
- Emily Murphy Residence
- Edmonton Historical Board's 2011 Recognition Awards
George Heath MacDonald
Harold Gould Macdonald
Robert (Bruce) MacDonald
James G. MacGregor
Dr. W. M. MacKay
Kenneth W. MacKenzie
James Douglas MacLean
Dr. Rod Macleod
Jock MacNeill
Herbert Alton Magoon and George Heath MacDonald
Alex Mair
Margaret Marshall
Margaret Martin
John Martland
Charles Mathers
Charles May
Wilfred "Wop" May
Matthew McCauley
Nellie McClung
Frederick Glen McDermid
Robert McDonald
Alexander McDougall
Rev. George McDougall
John Alexander McDougall
John C. McDougall
John Robert McIntosh
Henry William McKenney
John James McKenzie
John McKernan
Robert McKernan
Louise McKinney
Eva McKitrick
Arthur McLean
Kenneth A. McLeod
Murdoch McLeod
William J. McNamara
John B. Mercer
John Michaels
Tevie Miller
Necolai Mischi
Ivan (John) Mnoholitny
Addie Molstad
Edward H. Molstad
Ernest William Morehouse
Henry Mountafield
Emily Murphy
David Murray
- The Edmonton School Boys Band
- The Cabin Where Mel Hurtig Lived
- Honouring Local Landmarks
- Westglen School
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
Thomas Vernon Newlove
Frank G. Newton
Reverend William Newton
John George Niddrie
David Norwood
- More Strathcona Pioneer Homes
- Edmonton's Natural Spring Brewery
- The Man Who Built The Edmonton Bulletin
- Eda the Weatherlady's House
S. Q. O'Brien
Robert Ochsner
Frank Oliver
Eda Owen
- Mayors of Boom Time
- Westglen School
- Saluting Community Achievement
- The Residence That John Ross Built
- Jacob Prins and the Dutch in Beverly
- When Rundle Park Was A Dump
Sidney Parsons
Helen Paull
Philip Joseph Payne
David Petrie
Jacob & Aafje Prins
- John Thomas Radford House
- An Empire Built On Flowers
- The Blocks Kelly and Ramsey Built
- Buildings From 1911 and 1912 Lost in Time
- Edmonton's Merchant Prince
- Fire Strikes the Kelly and Ramsey Buildings
- St. Peter's Lutheran Church Marks a Century
- Otto Reiher's Cottage
- Recognizing the Rare and Rescued
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
- Engineered To Last
- The Pioneers and Builders of Strathcona
- Ritchie School
- A.J. Davidson Sold Beverly
- The Early Days of Edmonton Theatre
- Home to A Sheriff, A Builder And A Vaudeville King
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Lost Theatres
- Sheriff Robertson House
- At the Birthplace of Edmonton
- The Birthplace of Edmonton and Alberta
- Edmonton's Early Hotels
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Incline Railway
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels
- The School Named For Donald Ross
- The Residence That John Ross Built
- The Home Of Alberta's First Premier
- Opening Doors to the Past
- James Rutherford House
- Recognizing the Rare and Rescued
John Thomas Radford
Walter Ramsay
James Ramsey
Alfred Rehwinkel
Otto Reiher
Margaret Reine
A.H. Richards
Robert Ritchie
George Robertson
Walter Scott Robertson
Donald Ross
John Ross
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
James Rutherford
- The Sandison Brickyard: A Dip Into The Past
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Incline Railway
- Mansions of Another Time
- The Story Of Edmonton's Cigar Baron
- Edmonton’s Track and Field Tradition
- Ross Sheppard Composite High School
- Ross Sheppard's Sprint to the Top
- Edmonton's Oldest Standing Brewery
- The Ice Age in Edmonton
- The Lost Series: Edmonton's Incline Railway
- The Molson Brewery
- More Strathcona Pioneer Homes
- The Pioneers and Builders of Strathcona
- The Strathcona Hotel At 115 Years
- Joe Shoctor & the Citadel
- Edmonton Mayors 1910 to 1920
- Edmonton's First Mayors of the 20th Century
- Leaders in Heritage - The Edmonton Historical Board Announces its 2004 Recognition Awards
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2008 Plaques Awards
- Smeltzer House
- Edmonton's Sample Shoe Man
- The Stocks House On The Hill
- The Stovel Block
Charles Sandison
Richard Secord
H.V. (Harry) Shaw
Ross Stanley Sheppard
William Henry Sheppard
Joe Shoctor
William Short
Allan Shute
Paula Simons
Maurice Smeltzer
Stanley Noel Smith
John Stocks
James A. Stovel
- The School Named for Alex Taylor
- The Blocks Kelly and Ramsey Built
- Buildings From 1911 and 1912 Lost in Time
- History On Display
- The Story Of The Tegler Building
- Dr. Terwillegar's Residence
- J. MacGregor Thom Residence
- The Laundries Of Oliver
- Edmonton Historical Board's 2010 Recognition Awards
- Edmonton Makes History With First Historian Laureate
- The Tipton Block
- The Builder of the First Fort Edmonton
- Cultivating The Barn Again Movement
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
Alex Taylor
Robert Tegler
Norman L. Terwillegar
J. MacGregor Thom
John Burton Thompson
Dr. Sandra Mary Thomson
Ken Tingley
John G. Tipton
William Tomison
Julius Treichel
Keith Turnbull
- Edmonton Salutes Excellence
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2009 Recognition Awards
Sid van der Meulen
Alan Vanterpool
- Edmonton's First Millionaire
- The Great Old Walterdale Bridge
- When The North Saskatchewan Floods
- The Houses on Victoria Avenue
- Dr. Robert Wells Residence
- Historic Oliver
- Historic Oliver
- Edmonton's 19th Century Mayors
- Edmonton's Legendary Theatre Doorman
- Valleyview Manor
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2009 Recognition Awards
- The Capitol Theatre
- Edmonton Historical Board's 2011 Recognition Awards
John Walter
Morris Weinlos
Dr. Robert B. Wells
Anne Wheeler
Benjamin Wheeler
Charles Herbert Wilson
Charlie Wilson
Dr. Francis Winspear
Vern Wishart
Marie Wright
Marlena Wyman
- The Voice of Leduc No. 1
- The Edmonton Historical Board's 2008 Plaques Awards
Hal Yerxa
Bert Yeudall
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