RE: https://mstdn.ca/@VintageEdmonton/116652441783574383

Fun fact: #Alberta did not require #DriversLicenses until some years' later.

IIRC we already had ~30,000 #MotorVehicles by the time we got around to licensing private vehicle owners. Biggest concern to push for licensing was safety: too many people dying by colliding with #trains at uncontrolled crossings.

No actual drivers' #education required, though, so I'm still unclear as how this was to help out. 😬 Alas no #Hansard here prior to #Lougheed so old #news clippings are all we really have. ☹️

Licenses only required for commerial use/professional drivers.

#abhistory
#ableg
#yeg
#yyc
#yql
#ymm
#yqf

Great but difficult read from ECAMP.

As important as it is to know and share history worth celebrating, now more than ever we must remember the ugly parts of our history too.

Edmonton, Alberta, and Canada are built on a whole lot of racism by a whole lot of racist people. We must learn and acknowledge that before we can hope to pretend we're past it (we aren't, not even close).

https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/05/01/sustained-opposition-to-black-immigration/

#yeg #yegHistory #ABHistory #racism

@mwshook

That's very cool! ❤️

Reminds me of this story I ran across when working as a rural reporter just *after* a major anniversary -- no one had thought to contact the local paper nowadays, but in its day, this little hamlet and the meteorite/upper atmospheric studies being performed there made it briefly world-famous when the astronomer not only spotted Sputnik, but managed to photograph it, too! 🙂

https://www.thorhildcounty.com/Community/Facilities-Recreation/Item/ArtMID/723/ArticleID/35/Newbrook-Observatory

#abhistory
#astronomy
#Sputnik
#history
#photography