Larry Heron’s Memories of Highlands This article is based on a 2014 interview with Larry Heron. It was written by interviewer Helen Gillespie, former board member with the Highlands Historical Society. Thank you Larry, for sharing your memories, and thank you Helen, for writing them for us. Larry Heron grew up on 71st Street and…
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Did you plant a tree in the Highlands?
For over 60 years, the Alberta Government has gifted tree seedlings to grade one students, to mark Forest Week in our province. Forest Week runs in the first week of May, and the tree seedling program promotes environmental conservation and stewardship. A grade 8 student and an educator have teamed up to map the locations…
The Highlands. Barb Izzio Remembers…
The Highlands, Barb Izzio Remembers … It is now 57 years since I lived in the Highlands. I know that without hesitation because Joe and I have been married for 57 years. I left the Highlands as Barbara Chalmers and remember so clearly the seventeen years that I lived at 6121 – 111 Avenue, with…
A Conversation With Jim Moran: Part Two
The Highlands Historical Society’s project to share stories from the neighbourhood’s past has a new installment, via an interview with former Highlands resident Jim Moran. Jim, his mother and his older brother moved from Beverley to a house on 6403 Ada Boulevard in July 1967, when he was 12. The house was demolished some time…
A Conversation With Jim Moran: Part One
Highlands Vignettes from the 1960s The Highlands Historical Society’s project to share stories from the neighbourhood’s past has a new installment, via an interview with former Highlands resident Jim Moran. Jim, his mother and his older brother moved from Beverley to a house on 6403 Ada Boulevard in July 1967, when he was 12. The…
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