Maggie Thom's Blog - Posts Tagged "guy"

Last week you visited Valemount, BC, a beautiful hidden Canadian gem.

In Captured Lies, Bailey and Guy have had to leave there really fast as the bad guy has found them and is intent on killing them.

So Guy and Bailey head to Edmonton, another place that Bailey had lived as a child. I'm not sure I mentioned this before but Bailey lived on the streets and on the run with her mom. Bailey never really knew why just that sometimes her mom would come and pull her from school in the middle of the day and she'd never see it or the friends, if she'd made any, ever again. By returning to Edmonton Bailey is hoping to find some answers maybe by tracking down some of the people that she remembers. She knows the odds are pretty remote that any of them are alive.

So how did Edmonton come to be? In 1795, the Hudson Bay Company built a fort on the edge of the North Saskatchewan River, which was name Fort Edmonton. It is suggested that it was named that after Sir James Winter Lake, the deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company who came from Edmonton, in Middlesex, England.

The fort was known for trading, dispatching brigades to remote outposts, planting food and grain crops in the spring, harvesting them in the fall, and hunting and fishing to obtain meat for the fort's inhabitants. In the 1840s, with the arrival of Methodist and Catholic missionaries, things slowly changed. The Methodists built a church outside of the fort walls in 1870 and started really the city of Edmonton.

With the gold rush in the 1890's many people stopped in Edmonton on their way north. Then the railway arrived in 1902, providing an easier means of travel to the remote area. The biggest change happened in 1947 when black crude oil (or as some called it black gold) was discovered just southwest of Edmonton near Leduc, the city benefited greatly and grew exponentially after that...
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