Contents Preface vi Acknowledgements vii Abbreviations ix List of Illustrations x Chapters 1. The Market and the City, I 1 2. A Castle in the Air, 1892-1916 19 3. Blue Sky Trading in Edmonton: The Boom in the Bust, 1916-1939 49 4. The Market and the Civic Centre, 1940-1964 91 5. The 'New' City Market, 1965-2000 133 6. The Market and the City, II 171 Notes 191 References List of Interviewees 223 So [...] The Edmonton Downtown Development Corporation (EDDC), through the agency of Susan Wissink, Executive Director, supported the com- pletion of the research and the commencement of the manuscript in 1999. [...] Quite the opposite, the market's main advocate, Philip Heiminck, argued in a letter to the Edmonton Bulletin that "a town especially of the size of ours without a market has little right to demand even the title of a village that aspires to prosperity."4 Heiminck may have had in mind models based on his upbringing in Simcoe, Ontario, or perhaps he was thinking of the combined city hall and market [...] Beginning in 1916, when the city spent about $3,800 from its budget to build a shed-like building intended to house the market temporarily, and ending in 1965, when the market was relocated to 97th Street, the Edmonton City Market flourished at the geographic, even the spiritual, centre of civic life.7 Market Square, crammed to its edges on Saturdays by the vehicles of vendors and customers and, i [...] When, shortly after the town hall and market building had been completed, the donor went bankrupt, leaving in doubt the legal status of the building, Hamiltonians apparently continued to patronize the market and to attend concerts in the hall above it.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 7
- Acknowledgements 8
- Abbreviations 10
- List of Illustrations 11
- 1. The Market and the City, I 14
- 2. A Castle in the Air, 1892–1916 32
- 3. Blue Sky Trading in Edmonton: The Boom in the Bust, 1916–1939 62
- 4. The Market and the Civic Centre, 1940–1964 104
- 5. The 'New' City Market, 1965–2000 146
- 6. The Market and the City, II 184
- Notes 204
- References 236
- List of Interviewees 236
- Sources 237
- Note on Primary Sources 237
- Note on Secondary Sources 238
- Works Consulted 239
- Further Reading 241
- Index 244
- A 244
- B 244
- C 244
- D 244
- E 244
- F 244
- G 244
- H 245
- I 245
- J 245
- K 245
- M 245
- N 246
- O 246
- P 246
- R 246
- S 246
- T 246
- U 247
- V 247
- W 248
