Alberta Business Marketing

“If you’ve seen the old building,” says Tim Garrett, “it’s like day and night.” by Scott Messenger Manager of Alberta Motor Association properties, Garrett doesn’t show a hint of nostalgia for the squat, log cabin-like structure that was the AMA’s north Edmonton home since 1957. Really, it’s an unfair comparison. The new Kingsway Centre, opened August [...]

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Besides the Last Chance Saloon and attached Rosedeer Hotel, there’s not much left of Wayne, a hamlet set in a dusty coulee just south of Drumheller. by Scott Messenger Coal mining started here in the Badlands in 1912, boosting the population to more than 2,500. Since it stopped in 1957, just 27 residents remain. Nevertheless, Fred [...]

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Really want to know if Alberta’s stalled economy is rolling again? by Scott Messenger Talk to guys who deal in its moving parts. Eddy Stahl, dealer principal and president of west Edmonton’s Stahl Peterbilt, believes it’s gaining traction. Sales of medium- and heavy-duty trucks may not be at boom-time levels, but they’re revving up again. The [...]

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During the early 20th century, the Hudson’s Bay Company traded clapboard outlets for stately modern edifices. by Scott Messenger From Victoria to Toronto, empty lots sprouted multi-level department stores – architectural and economic anchors for Canada’s burgeoning downtown cores. Calgary’s Bay Building, on Stephen Avenue, opened as the city’s largest building in August 1913, in time to [...]

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Since the early 1970s, the rocket in the playground at the David Thompson Resort has towered more than three storeys at the side of Highway 11, no doubt inspiring countless back seat campaigns to convince parents to stop en route to mountain getaways.

by Scott Messenger

Built with salvage from Nordegg’s defunct coal mine, the structure has undergone annual checkups and welding since Wendy and Ron Killick bought into the 40-year-old campground and motel complex in 1995. You have to satisfy insurers, explains Wendy, and keep kids – of all ages – safe. “In the afterhours we have to kick people off because it’s the adults that are up there playing around. You’ve been warned,” she adds, prompted by my confession of having too recently climbed to that lofty cockpit – in daylight hours. How else do you report on one of the tallest, scariest slides this side of the Rockies? Your kids will love it. (So will you.)

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