Linda Goyette

Linda Goyette wrote for the Edmonton Journal for twenty years as a reporter, editorial writer, and editorial page columnist. She is the 2005 recipient of the Grant MacEwan Author's Award, a...

Carolina Jakeway Roemmich

Carolina Jakeway Roemmich is a researcher based in Edmonton.

Edmonton In Our Own Words

Linda Goyette

Carolina Jakeway Roemmich

BACK IN PRINT!

Edmonton In Our Own Words includes many unfamiliar photographs from private collections, historic maps, and a timeline of Edmonton’s history. As the city celebrates its past and future, readers will enjoy the personal stories of eyewitnesses and descendants explaining, arguing, crying, scolding, laughing, and interrupting one another in a city’s evolving conversation with itself.

Linda Goyette and Carolina Roemmich have tapped Edmonton’s collective memoir, through the written record, the spoken stories and the vast silences. Everyone who ever lived at this bend in the North Saskatchewan took part in creating the city we know as Edmonton. They have plenty to tell us.

Linda Goyette is the winner of the 2005 Grant MacEwan Author's Award

Reviews

"It is the most comprehensive and inclusive history ever written for Edmonton." - University of Alberta New Trail Alumni Magazine

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"Edmonton in Our Own Words is a very rare bird: an accessible book which, if you look carefully, is also extremely sophisticated in its structure and the way it crosscuts voices and meanings. Goyette has given us a wonderfully complete yet teasingly incomplete history of Edmonton that reveals both the fabric of memory and wellspring of civic mythologies." - Christopher Wiebe, VUE Weekly