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HMCS Nonsuch

HMCS Nonsuch began as a half company naval reserve unit in 1923 under the guidance of Lt. Commander A.B. McLeod. They were housed in two rooms in the Prince of Wales Armouries. In 1939 the company acquired a permanent barracks at 102 Street and 97 Avenue, formerly the Hudson's Bay Company Stables. During the Second World War the unit went on active service and several thousand naval volunteers passed through basic training. In 1948 it was decommissioned as an active establishment. After the war a full time staff of permanent Royal Canadian Navy reserve officers was established and the base was re-equipped. The unit was decommissioned in 1964 due to federal government cutbacks, but was reopened in 1974 and restaffed by Lt. Commander H.F. Wallace in 1975 to hold an eight week summer training camp for new recruits. Their new base of operations was in the Kingsway Armed Forces Recreation Centre. By the late 1980s and 1990s the unit was winning top honors among Canadian naval reserves.

Concerned Citizens for Edmonton's River Valley (ConCerv)

The Concerned Citizens for Edmonton's River Valley (ConCerv) was established in 1999. The organization's mission statement was to advocate for the protection of Edmonton's river valley from industrial development. Instead, ConCerv sought development that would remain consistent with cultural, residential, and recreational pursuits.

ConCerv was primarily concerned with the proposed expansion of the EPCOR power plant situated in the river valley. The organization sought intervener status so that it could represent the river valley communities of Cloverdale, Rossdale, and Old Strathcona.

ConCerv was dissolved as an Alberta Society in 2007.

Corporate Communications Department

Although a complaints bureau had been in City Hall since 1952, it was not until 1966 that a centralized public relations function was created, with the establishment of a Public Relations Section in the Industrial Development Department.

In 1971 the Public Relations Department was established to develop community awareness, understanding, and support for the City's policies and programs. This was done through publicity programs; executive advertising programs; engaging with media; publications; promotional items; and programs for delegations, guests, cultural and educational groups, and special celebrations.

In 1982 the Department's functions were divided into the Corporate Communications Department and the Citizens Action Centre. In 1985 both organizations were placed under the Office of the City Manager. This arrangement lasted until 1997, when the City '97 reorganization moved both functions to the Corporate Services Department. This relationship lasted until at least 2007.

In 2008 the Citizens Action Centre was dissolved and its function absorbed by the new 311 Call Centre, operated by Corporate Services.

Bond Family

Bond, Margaret Joy 1915-1972
Bond, Victor Percival 1880-1961

Victor Percival Bond was born 4 Sep 1880 to Elizabeth Ann Greenway and William Bond in Simcoe, Ontario. Sometime between 1895 and 1900, Victor with his parents and siblings, Edgerton, Ida, Lulu and Reta, moved to Gladstone, Manitoba.

Victor was part owner of the Bond-Adams Company Limited, a real estate investment company, originally based in Port Arthur, Ontario. The company moved its head office to Calgary prior to the First World War, and also had an office in Sudbury, Ontario. It is likely at this time that Victor moved to Calgary. The Bond-Adams office in Calgary dealt directly with the many clients and companies involved in land speculation in western Canada at the time. Many of the clients were from the mining districts of northern Ontario.

In 1906, Victor married Evelyn Todd in Calgary. The had two daughters, Evelyn Ann born in 1913, and Margaret Joy, born in 1915. Sometime between 1916 and 1921, Victor and his family moved to Edmonton. Victor started a tailor shop in Edmonton, V.P. Bond and Company, which he operated until his retirement in the late 1950's.

Margaret Joy Bond worked in Edmonton, variously as a teacher, stenographer and seamstress.

Victor Percival Bond died 6 Dec 1961.
Margaret Joy Bond died suddenly, while on vacation in Nanaimo, BC, on 2 Oct 1971.
Margaret is buried with her parents in the Mount Pleasant Municipal Cemetery in Edmonton.

Phoenix Multi-Faith Society for Harmony

The Phoenix Multi-Faith Society for Harmony launched on September 17th 2006 at Edmonton City Hall in front of 200 people. Following attacks on mosques and synagogues in Edmonton, Jewish and Muslim leaders worked with the Edmonton Police to promote harmony between the groups in the city.
Attacks on the Beth Shalom and Beth Israel synagogues and the Muslim Community of Edmonton mosque led the leaders to seek avenues in which they could work together.
The Society brought in the Edmonton Police Department’s Anti-Hate Bias Crime Unit and the Archbishop Thomas Collins. The Society annually hosts Diversity Day at Edmonton City Hall.
The Society has a board of six representatives from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish faiths who meet monthly. The Society’s objective is to seek positive coexistence and relationships among various faiths, particularly the Abrahamic faiths, through open communication and dialogue, education and community participation. The Society aims to address and eliminate intercommunity negative stereotypes, hatred, and prejudices within Edmonton.

Trans Canada Yellowhead Highway Association

The Trans Canada Yellowhead Highway Association first began as an advocacy group of communities along the Yellowhead Corridor in 1936 dedicated to the creation of the Yellowhead Highway to promote business and accessibility. After the construction of the Yellowhead corridor was completed, the Association changed its name to the Trans-Canada Highway System Association in 1947 to better reflect the growth of the Highway into a larger network. The current name of the organization was chosen in 2000 to better reflect the scope of the Association's advocacy. Although no longer concerned with the creation of the Highway as it was when formed in 1936, the Association has continued advocating for improvements and upgrades to the Highway to better accommodate the demand placed on western Canadian natural resource exploration and extraction, tourism, and agriculture.

Granite Senior Ladies Curling Club

The first meeting of the Granite Senior Ladies Curling Club was held in 1971. The meeting was attended by 25 senior women at the Thistle Curling Club. The meeting was to discuss the formation of a seniors club for ladies wishing to curl or play bridge. At this first meeting they decided to call the club The Senior Ladies Curling and Social Club.

Starting in 1972 the club began to meet at the Granite Curling Club. Within the next few years the club’s name changed to The Senior Ladies’ Curling Club. The members of the club would meet regularly to curl at the Granite Curling Club where they rented ice. The Granite Curling Club was founded in 1920 and is one of the oldest curling clubs in Edmonton.

By 1986 the club was known as the Granite Senior Ladies Curling Club. The members of the club regularly played and had prizes.

The Granite Curling Club continues to have a Seniors League.

Revell, Daniel G.

Professor Dr. Daniel Graisberry Revell was born in 1869 in Ontario to James and Alice Revell. Daniel’s father was a farmer and he had three older brothers, Henry, William, and James. Daniel graduated from the University of Toronto (U of T) with a Bachelor of Arts in 1894 and a degree in Medicine in 1900. He was then a Fellow in Anatomy at the U of T.
From 1901 to 1907 Daniel worked as an instructor at the University of Chicago before being appointed Provincial Pathologist by Alberta premier Alexander Rutherford in 1907. Daniel headed the first Provincial Health Laboratory in Alberta. In 1911 the Public Health Laboratory was relocated to Athabasca Hall on the University of Alberta (U of A) campus. While working at the the laboratory Daniel worked on a wide range of research projects including the detection of Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria and Tuberculosis.
In 1912 Daniel became one of the first members of the Faculty of Medicine at the U of A. Daniel was head of the Department of Anatomy at the U of A from 1914 to 1938 and resigned as the Director of the Provincial Laboratory.
Daniel was married to Helen Murray Revell and together they had three sons, John, Andrew and Daniel and a daughter, Aileen. Their third son was Dr. Daniel G. Revell who was the first anesthesiologist at Sick Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Daniel Revell died in 1954 in Edmonton.

Nightlife Promotion Ltd.

Nightlife Promotion Ltd. (Nightlife) was incorporated in 1979 with the intent of publishing bi-weekly event guides focused on Edmonton. Nightlife was started by Denise Assaly after she gained inspiration from a Toronto publication called City Nights.

Nightlife started by creating posters, and later added brochures and an annual Arts Season Edition. They partnered with radio sponsors and briefly with ITV television. The publications featured graphic advertisements for a wide range of Edmonton events, concerts, theatrical productions, dances, festivals, nightclubs, and city attractions.

Later, Nightlife also had an online brochure and a Scanlife app which provided information on events every two weeks. Nightlife went out of business in 2017 after 38 years.

Barker, Gregory

Gregory “Greg” Barker was born in Vancouver in 1951. He moved to Edmonton in 1978 and worked as a city planner for the City of Edmonton from 1978-1986 and 1993-2010. After finding that the social scene for gay people in Edmonton was limited to a handful of clubs and the Gay Alliance Towards Equality office, he decided to establish a recreation association for gay men. With the support of other gay men in the community, Greg founded the Edmonton Roughnecks Recreation Association, the first gay sports organization in Alberta. Greg was the first president of the Edmonton Roughnecks Recreation Association.

The Edmonton Roughnecks Recreation Association focused on volleyball and baseball but offered gymnastics for a brief period. At its peak, the Roughnecks had more than 70 active members and its own volleyball league with six teams. The Roughnecks teams traveled to Calgary annually to participate in the Western Cup Volleyball tournament, and to Vancouver to participate in the Pacific Cup Baseball Tournament and the Vancouver Gay Summer Games. The Roughnecks also hosted their own tournaments, including a Pride tournament at Camp Harris (1982), a volleyball tournament at Commonwealth Stadium (1982), and an invitational volleyball tournament in Sherwood Park (1985).

The Edmonton Roughnecks Recreation Association also produced a monthly newsletter beginning in May 1982 to promote the association’s activities. The newsletter was subsequently transformed into Fine Print, Alberta’s first gay newspaper.

In 1987 the Roughnecks informally ceased operations, as a result of the economic downturn in Alberta which saw an exodus of many Roughnecks members from Edmonton, as well as the AIDS epidemic. Greg moved to Vancouver in 1986, but later moved back to Edmonton where he once again worked as a city planner until 2010.

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