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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.

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.

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) 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.

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.

R. William (R.W.) Drake was born in England ca.1888 to William J. Drake and Mary A. Drake. R.W. immigrated to Canada with his family in 1909. R.W. married his wife Margaret and together they had a son who was born ca.1917. R.W. worked as a traveling salesman in Edmonton selling rubber goods. R. W. took part in minstrel and theatrical shows and played cricket. R.W. was also involved with C.J.C.A. radio.