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ECAMP Podcast
Edmonton City as Museum Project
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The stories of the People, Places, Things and Moments that make the City of Edmonton what it is. Presented by Edmonton Heritage Council.
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TEASER for Episode 13 (Bonus)
28-08-2021
1 min
S02E13 | Without Discrimination: The Delwin Vriend Case
This ECAMP Podcast bonus episode, hosted by Murray Billett and produced by the Alberta Labour History Institute, takes us on a journey through a history-making decision that impacts Alberta’s Human Rights law to this day. Featured voices include Vriend, former City Councillor Michael Phair, and four people who participated as lawyers in the case: Sheila Greckol (now a Justice of the Court of Appeal of Alberta); Douglas Stollery, CM, QC; Julie Lloyd, QC (now a Provincial Court Judge); and Lyle Kanee, QC.
10-12-2021
54 mins
TEASER for Episode 13 (Bonus)
Episode description not available.
28-08-2021
1 min
S02E12 | Bringing it Together: Immigration History through food & Edmonton’s Annexations
In this final episode of Season 2, revisit perspectives on Edmonton’s immigration history through the lens of food. Then, we consider annexation as a relationship between people, communities and the land with Peter Ohm, Edmonton’s Historian Laureate Amber Paquette & Mackenzie Ground.
21-08-2021
55 mins
S2E11 | The Edmonton 2Spirit Society, Lebanese Peddlers & Burger Baron
In this episode, Elder Richard Jenkins & Cheyenne Mihko Kihêw discuss the formation of the Edmonton 2Spirit Society, its history & hiccups experienced along the way. Then, Omar Mollaleum takes to the streets to explore the history of Lebanese peddlers in Alberta & their connection to a beloved Alberta fast food restaurant.
14-08-2021
46 mins
S02E10 | Do It Together: DIY Art and Music Organizing in Edmonton
In this episode, discover the Edmonton Women's Music Collective, Women Unlimited, Not Enough Fest, and Brown, Black & Fierce- four different projects across four decades that created Queer arts spaces in Edmonton.
07-08-2021
59 mins
S02E09 | The Points System, Caribbean Immigration & Neighbourhoods as Corporate Artifacts
Donna Coombs-Montrose shares her experience of immigrating to Canada and speaks about her involvement in the Cariwest Festival. Then, Erik Backstrom & Doug Kelly consider The Grange and the historical role of corporations in neighbourhood development.
31-07-2021
46 mins
S02E08 | Local Drag Kings, Part 2 & Impressions of Edmonton Post-Immigration
In this episode, Alex Felicitas (AKA Bushwackin’ Al) speaks about their experience in the Queer Royale Drag Troupe. Then, former City Councillor and Member of Parliament Amarjeet Sohi shares his story of immigrating to Edmonton from India in the 1980s.
24-07-2021
39 mins
S02E07 | Remembrance as an Active Process: Formal & Informal Ethnic Enclaves
In this episode, explore two formalized ethnic enclaves in the Boyle Street and McCauley neighbourhoods. Lan Chan-Marples shares the history of Edmonton’s Chinatown & Adriana A Davies speaks about Little Italy. Then, Poushali Mitra considers the growing South Asian community in Mill Woods and recounts an effort to have a Little India arch erected in the early 2000s.
17-07-2021
45 mins
S02E06 | Examining a pan-Latinx identity & Indigenous burials in Blackmud Creek Ravine
Luciana Erregue shares her story of immigrating to Edmonton from Argentina and considers the notions of race & a shared Latinx identity. Then, Dr. Kisha Supernant discusses her work with the Papaschase Nation in the Kaskitayo neighbourhood.
10-07-2021
49 mins
S02E5 | We’re in Oil Country: Local Drag Kings & Venezuelan Immigration
In this episode, hear from Melisa Brittain & Deb Farstad of the Alberta Beef drag troupe about the character of Drag Kinging in our province. Then, Miguel Priolo Marin speaks about a cerebral exodus from Venezuela in the 1990s and why many immigrants came to Alberta.
03-07-2021
45 mins
S02E04 | Reclaiming the Erased: Métis Histories & Sexual Preference Activism in the 1970s
In this Episode, discover two very different histories that have been erased. Matt Hiltermann explores how the frontier myth erases history & Karin Kratz shares her story of lobbying to have an anti-homophobia clause added to the Canada Post collective agreement.
26-06-2021
41 mins
S02E03 | Kinokamau Plains & Immigration Hall
In this episode, discover a lost Métis settlement in a north-west industrial area with Dylan Reade, and learn about some sites essential to early 20th century immigration with Adriana A. Davies.
19-06-2021
41 mins
S02E02 | Bellamy Hill in the 1990s, an Indigenous Drag House & Early Edmonton as a Cosmopolitan Centre
Rob Gurney (Ladonna Cree) shares the experience working Bellamy Hill in the 1990s, the art of drag, & the Indi-Queenz of Beaver Hills Haus. Then, Lan Chan-Marples & Debbie Beaver share perspectives on early Chinese & African-American histories.
12-06-2021
47 mins
S02E01 | Heritage Trees & Gay Cruising in the 1980s
In this episode, discover what trees can tell us about Edmonton’s history with Dustin Bajer, take a walk through Spruce Avenue with Wesley Andreas, and learn about a site significant to our city’s 2SLBGTQIA+ community in the 1980s with Darrin Hagen.
05-06-2021
44 mins
S02E00 | The ECAMP Podcast Returns (Trailer)
Episode description not available.
02-06-2021
1 min
S01E16 | City Hall & the Friendship Tower
The story behind City Hall's remarkable bell tower, a gift from broadcast pioneer Dick Rice that regularly sends gleeful tunes out into Churchill Square.
22-12-2016
10 mins
S01E15 | From Barber to Farmer
Toyomatsu Kimura was no farmer! But after discrimination made it hard to run his business in 1920’s Edmonton, that’s what he did—along with other Japanese families. Hear how, from a farming community resident, Chizuko Kimura and researcher Aya Fujiwara.
08-12-2016
13 mins
S01E14 | Library & City Market
Historian Kathryn Chase Merritt tells of the colourful history and pungent aroma of the City Market. Imagine open stalls of produce, fresh meat, and everything farmer’s could bring to the centre of town. First located on the south end of today’s Winston Churchill Square, the Edmonton Public library eventually took over the spot in 1967, but the memories remain...
24-11-2016
10 mins
S01E13 | Station of Reconciliation
A mural in the Grandin LRT Station was meant to tell the story of a man but it inadvertently acted as a reminder of the oppression of an entire group of people. We find out the history of the mural, the pain it caused and the healing that came from it.
10-11-2016
17 mins
S01E12 | Edmonton Theatre
Professional theatre in Edmonton? Many thought it impossible. And a Fringe Festival in the early 1980s? Brian Paisley tells the story how he lucked out with government money and chutzpah. He's joined by playwright Ken Brown and writer Colin MacLean.
20-10-2016
12 mins