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1949-1964

Wayne Krys

Wayne Krys was born in Jasper Place in the early 1950s where his parents had bought a house in West Jasper Place on the corner

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1949-1964

George Cuff

George Cuff was born in Jasper Place in the late 1940s, next to what was then Barrel Taxi; his parents soon bought a house at

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1964-1990

Carl Wilson

Date: 2023Location: EdmontonProfile: Carl Wilson arrived in 1975 in Edmonton with his family after spending a few years in England where he became a pressure

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1949-1964

Jim Selby

Jim Selby is a lifelong labour activist and author of left-wing publications. He was research and communications director at the Alberta Federation of Labour for

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1949-1964

Lilly Ann Selby

Lilly Ann Selby came from an agrarian socialist family in Saskatchewan. She began married life on a farm until financial conditions forced her parents to

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1949-1964

Neil Henry

Neil Henry was born in South Africa in 1942 of Scottish parents; he spent 7 years as an army kid in post-war Germany and immigrated

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1990-Present

Stennie Noel

Stennie Noel arrived in Canada from Trinidad & Tobago in 1974. After receiving certification in welding/pipefitting, he moved to Edmonton. He worked on contracts for

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1949-1964

Teuna (Toni) de Jong

Below are excerpts from letters Teuna de Jong wrote to her mother in the Netherlands throughout the 1960s. She and her husband, Jelle, bought a

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1949-1964

Charles Zelensky

Charles Zelensky was born in 1957 at the Edmonton General Hospital, one of seven children of Peter and Ruth Zelensky. Peter was from Winnipeg, MB

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