Pre-Contact and Fur Trade

11,000 BCE - 1870

Indigenous people have called this area home for millennia. Europeans, lured by the promise of fur, only arrived in the late 1700s.

2 Structures Profiled

1 Architectural Styles Profiled

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Urban Settlement

1870 - 1904

Edmonton as we know it today began to develop in the early 1870s. Initially a very small community, it grew steadily until 1904, at which time it had a population of over 8,000.

5 Structures Profiled

2 Architectural Styles Profiled

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Urban Growth

1905 - 1914

Between 1905 and 1913 Edmonton experienced incredible growth. The population exploded from less that 10,000 to almost 70,000 in only a few years.

48 Structures Profiled

13 Architectural Styles Profiled

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The War Years

1914 - 1945

Between 1914 and 1945 Edmonton underwent phenomenal change as the Great War, the Depression and the Second World War left their mark.

26 Structures Profiled

16 Architectural Styles Profiled

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The Post War Years

1946 - 1970

The discovery of oil in Alberta changed Edmonton forever. Rapid growth, new technologies and changing lifestyles and world views dramatically altered Edmonton’s built landscape.

26 Structures Profiled

7 Architectural Styles Profiled

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Building Legacy

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Go Back In Time!

Pre-Contact and Fur Trade

11,000 BCE - 1870

Urban Settlement

1870 - 1904

Urban Growth

1905 - 1914

The War Years

1914 - 1945

The Post War Years

1946 - 1970

Building Legacy

Time Periods

The Structures

Architectural Styles

Pre-Contact and Fur Trade

11,000 BCE - 1870

Urban Settlement

1870 - 1904

Urban Growth

1905 - 1914

The War Years

1914 - 1945

The Post War Years

1946 - 1970

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