Let's Find Out

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We’ve got an amazing panel of speakers coming out to The Needle Vinyl Tavern in Edmonton on March 11:

I’ll be asking them how they know what’s true in their field. And you’ll have a chance to submit your questions about how they do their research too!

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This month, I have something a little different for you. It’s a one-off podcast I did in June 2016 to capture a little taste of the 2016 Edmonton Chinatown Conference. The 2016 Edmonton Chinatown Conference ran from June 11-12 at the University of Alberta. It was a gathering of city planners, business people, history nerds, young artists, folks from Chinatowns in other cities, and just generally Edmontonians with a strong bond to Chinatown here. The goal: to learn more about Chinatown’s cultural and historical roots, and do some visioning about its future.

This podcast was originally presented on the Chinese Benevolent Association’s website:

Find past episodes of Let’s Find Out:

And send me your questions at [email protected].

This episode: The Great Apartment Caper. Pamela Learmond asks me to help her verify whether her grandpa really had an entire apartment building moved down 97 Street.

[Editor’s note: This episode has been slightly edited to remove some personal details]

What has archaeologist Haeden Stewart been digging up in Mill Creek Ravine? I followed him down to the dig site itself. And along the way, I learned about a neighbourhood you might never have known existed, how Edmonton industrialized in the early 20th century, and what caragana can tell you about where to dig.

We found out the name of the building where the Ku Klux Klan published their newspaper, The Liberator, in the 1930s.