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…
Category: Highlands History
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…
Highlands Streetscapes
As spring weather approaches and we enjoy the new sidewalk along Ada Boulevard, we thought this brief article from the Highlands Historical Foundation newsletter (Spring 2002 Volume 13 No 1) might be fun to revisit. The article was written by Wayne Tedder, who served for a time as HHF president. Streetscapes In this rural-looking scene,…
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