Author: City of Edmonton
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: zoie, ada, edmonton, naming
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-07-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 088864423X
ISBN-13: 9780888644237

With over 1300 sites, 300 photographs, and detailed maps, Naming Edmonton gives life to the personal stories and the significant events that mark this city. Use this comprehensive local history as a guide to revisit Edmonton’s streets, parks, neighbourhoods, and bridges in an exploration of the signs of our origins and our times.

Author: Edmonton Conference on Approximation TheoryZeev D
Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
Keywords: conference, canadian, mathematical, proceedings, society, theory, edmonton, approximation, second
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 1983-09
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0821860046
ISBN-13: 9780821860045

The Second Edmonton Conference on Approximation Theory, held in Edmonton, Alberta, June 7--11, 1982, was devoted to Approximation Theory and related topics, including spline approximation, computational problems, complex and rational approximation, and techniques from harmonic analysis and the theory of interpolation of operators. In conformity with the requirements of this series, this volume consists of refereed papers by a selection of the invited speakers. The conference was sponsored by the Canadian Mathematical Society and supported by grants from the Natural Sciences

Author: Darrin Hagen
Publisher: Brindle & Glass Publishing
Keywords: queen, edmonton
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 189714220X
ISBN-13: 9781897142202

This book, based on a award-winning one-queen play from four-time Sterling Award winner Darrin Hagen, is a portrait not only of one life but of a decade in the glamerous and decadent world created by a dynasty of young drag icons. In the club called Flashback, a generation of queens sashayed to stardom. Small town boys became someone or something else as they accessorized their loneliness and alienation as gay men and discovered instead a community spirit. Some are dead now, some have gone on to other things, but the family they were is remembered fondly, humerously and ironically

Author: K. Michael Gaschnitz
Publisher: McFarland
Keywords: oilers, edmonton
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2003-01-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0786412526
ISBN-13: 9780786412525

The Edmonton Oilers have been one of the most successful and exciting hockey teams during the last twenty years. Led in their glory days by Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Glenn Anderson, and Grant Fuhr, it is not surprising that the Oilers won five Stanley Cups in seven years. This work is a history of the Edmonton Oilers from 1979, the year the team joined the National Hockey League, through the 2000-2001 season. The first part details each of the Oilers’ seasons and provides complete regular and postseason scoring and goal-tending statistics for each season. The

Author: Charlene Rooke
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Keywords: city, secrets, edmonton
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1551521032
ISBN-13: 9781551521039

Once a little fort on the prairie, Edmonton is Alberta’s vibrant capital city, notable for its extensive river valley park system and notorious for its expansive mall. Behind these familiar local features are secrets that will surprise even long-time residents. Edmonton: Secrets of the City a city guide with a twist, with the inside scoop on the best places to dine, shop, and hang out, along with the obscure, trivial, and even macabre stories behind local legends and landmarks. At some time or another, the River City has seen it all, from hometown celebrities like Leslie Niel

Author: Kenneth Munro
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: history, edmonton, church, presbyterian, first
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2004-05-05
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 1412023378
ISBN-13: 9781412023375

This book is the story of the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton and the people who made it such a fascinating religious community. The colourful characters, the saints and sinners, the good and the worthy, the weak and the domineering, and portrayed in a very caring fashion. The dignity and worth of the human spirit along with the foibles of human nature are laid bare in this portrayal of a congregation’s struggle to assert a dominant role within the Presbyterian, and Edmonton, communities. With the arrival of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in what latter became

Author: Tony Cashman
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: city, river, stories, edmonton
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0888643926
ISBN-13: 9780888643926

From the edge of the frontier to the centre of the oil boom, Edmonton has been a vibrant city for nearly a century. Former broadcaster Tony Cashman presents 40 vignettes of life in a simpler era: the people and places that made Edmonton what it is today.