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This book is a collection of short stories and snapshots from the historic Highlands neighbourhood in northeast Edmonton. It is a look into the history of an Edmonton neighbourhood through the eyes of the people who lived there.

Author: Carol Snyder

June was a trying month for Lukas, a month of endless waiting. Once school was done for the year, Lukas would join his cousin KC on "The Farm," where his father and his Uncle Ben had grown up, and where a summer full of adventure beckoned.

But then KC told Lukas about something new. A ghost train had been sighted, running on the branch line not far from The Farm. And not just any ghost train. This was the Ghost Train, a train with ties to Lukas' very own family, a train long absent but now mysteriously reappearing when the moon was full.

Author: Stuart Adams

The terrifying Wîhtikow Rex takes centre stage in this exciting second book in the Lukas Encounters. The mysterious creature, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that Lukas and his cousin KC accidentally bring to life, is described in Cree mythology as a ravening monster that grows as it consumes its victims.

Author: Stuart Adams

Be the cool kid in the lunchroom with this retro lunch bag, which features an advertisement for mustard from 1945. This re-usable brown paper bag style lunch sack is perfect for the vintage lovers in your life. It will keep your lunch, and drinks, the perfect temperature.

It is a laminated and insulated bag with a roll top closure and front pocket. Dimensions are slightly larger than the average roll top lunch kit 12.4" H x 7.5" W x 5.12" L.

Image: Edmonton Journal, December 19, 1945 (altered)

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Check out this combo! The insulated reusable lunch bag features a fun advertisement for mustard from 1945. It has a roll top closure and front pocket. The 20oz water bottle features artwork from the Dominion Scientific Temperance Committee and features a built-in infuser so you can customize with your favourite flavour.

Bag Image: Edmonton Journal, December 19, 1945 (altered)

Bottle Image: PR1974.0001.0400a.0001

Sanford's Magic Rub is a vinyl eraser for use on polyester-based drafting film, acetate, or tracing paper. It erases delicate drawings cleanly, without smudging.

These 2" x 2" photo magnets feature beautiful black and white archival images from the PAA collection. There are six images to choose from so you can pick your favorite or buy several. Use them on your fridge, locker or file cabinet or give them as a small gift to anyone!

The Provincial Archives of Alberta provides access to marriage records that are 75 years or older (from the date of marriage).

Select the number of registrations you want to receive.

The Provincial Archives of Alberta provides access to marriage records that are 75 years or older (from the date of marriage).

Select the number of registrations you want to receive.

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Show off your archival style with a new non-medical mask featuring an image from the Provincial Archives of Alberta! These pleated, durable, three layer fabric masks have adjustable ear loops and a flexible nose piece. Grab one (or one of each image) and show off your unique mask wherever you go!

Image PR1974.0001.0141.1 

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Show off your archival style with a new non-medical mask featuring an image from the Provincial Archives of Alberta! These pleated, durable, three layer fabric masks have adjustable ear loops and a flexible nose piece. Grab one (or one of each image) and show off your unique mask wherever you go!  

This beautiful package of five assorted floral cards feature hand-coloured botanical lantern slide images by William Copeland McCalla, c.1930.

Each blank card measures 5.5" H x 4.25" W and comes with a white envelope.

Add some colour and beauty to your home! This stunning collection of 5" x 7" prints from the William Copeland McCalla photo collection will bring a unique touch to your space. These gorgeous prints feature an assortment of Alberta florals and insects.

These Provincial Archives of Alberta-branded flash drives with attached keychain feature 16GB of memory in a compact size that is perfect for your research needs. The flash drives have black translucent coloured trim on the brushed silver base and a snap-on cap for added protection.

The journal of Father Léon Doucet presents a rare account of the changes that occurred in what is today Saskatchewan and Alberta in the last half of the 19th century. These changes included the spread of devastating disease epidemics, the decline of bison populations, the end of the fur trade economy, the establishment of Canadian sovereignty, the signing of treaties, the creation of First Nations reserves, and the transformation of the landscape into an agricultural west. A keen observer, Doucet recorded significant ethnographic, geographic, genealogical, faunal, floral, and meteorological details and events.

This book is a fibre artist's dream! It makes it easy to dye your own fabric and yarn with plants you will find in your own back yard.

Author: Carol Snyder

In 1899, the Counterfeit Circulation Company Limited is formed to forge Canadian $2.00 notes in Boston, Massachusetts and transport them to Nova Scotia for distribution. In Halifax, Laura Davis begins her litany to her daughters to never marry an Englishman, as a result of her husband Lewis' complicity in the counterfeiting scheme and his affair with another woman. Drawn into the illegal enterprise by his financial and marital difficulties, Lewis William Davis finds himself as the principal of the Boston group formed to print the 1897 Canadian banknotes. Using the daily notes of United States Secret Service agent Owen Owen, which were uncovered by the popular television show Ancestors in the Attic, as well as newspaper accounts of that time period, "Never Marry an Englishman" tells the story of Lewis William Davis' attempt to become richer from his counterfeiting skills and of agent Owen Owen's attempt to capture him.

Author: Rob Milson

This beautiful collection of 5" x 7" unfinished pastel portrait sketches by Nicholas de Grandmaison give colourful insight into the famous Canadian artist's creative process. Nicholas de Grandmaison lived most of his life in Calgary and Banff, and his work remains a permanent part of Canadian art history.

"Old Strathcona: Edmonton's Southside Roots" by Monto is an extensively researched chronological history of southside Edmonton, once the separate city of Strathcona, from its start as a scattering of Métis/Indian pioneer cabins in the 1870s to a bustling commercial/industrial/residential section of the City of Edmonton prior to the downturn of the 1930s. Bound together with "Métis Strathcona" by Lawrence, a ground-breaking essay on the roots of Strathcona, which delineates the Métis identity of many of its earliest pioneers and the Métis pioneers' connection with the area's Papaschase First Nations, which was subsequently thoroughly dispossessed.

Author: Tom Monto

Fort George and Buckingham House and the early fur trade on the North Saskatchewan River, 1792 to 1800.

Through meticulous research and careful historiographical analysis, historians Douglas Babcock and Michael Payne paint a vivid portrait of a foundational period of social and economic interaction in Alberta's early fur trade history. While the British Crown claimed ownership and control through a charter granted to the Hudson s Bay Company over a vast territory known as Rupert's Land, in reality it was the Indigenous nations of the continent who held uncontested sovereign dominion over their ancestral lands. It wasn't until 1869 that these territories were absorbed into Canada after which treaties were fashioned, and western provinces established.

Author: Douglas R. Babcock with Michael Payne