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Misericordia Hospital

Address: 111th Street between 98th Avenue and 99th Avenue NW

Four sisters and one nurse from Quebec arrived in Edmonton in 1900 to establish the Misericordia Hospital on 111th Street. They built a 60-bed hospital in 1906 between 98th and 99th Avenue. The three-storey brick building was built in the Second Empire style of architecture, but it started to shut down in 1959 as it aged, and five years later, a boiler explosion caused a fire that damaged the structure. The hospital eventually moved to its new site in west Edmonton in 1969. By 1972, only parts of the original building were still standing, and it was briefly used to house mentally disabled children before it was torn down completely.

Edmonton Public Library

Address: 10020 100th St. NW

This beautiful Classical Revival building was a downtown landmark until it was demolished in 1968. Its cream-coloured brick and Bedford stone exterior featured a red tile roof and copper gutters, flashing, and skylights. The main entrance was framed by four Bedford stone Doric columns, and the words “FREE TO ALL” were carved above it. After the larger Centennial Library opened in 1967, the site was sold to Alberta Government Telephones, which tore down the building to make way for the AGT Tower (now the Telus building).