Presenter: John Chalmers

Take a trip around Alberta to visit 25 town museums in Alberta within two hours of Edmonton without leaving your home! See how our history, artifacts and archives are preserved and conserved in Alberta’s town museums. Visit your own past and that of your ancestors by seeing the amazing collections of items that have been gathered and saved to show our history. John Chalmers has travelled around Alberta to visit and photograph museums that display unique and treasured collections in facilities that range in size from a single room to large buildings to a historic village!

Presenter note: John is a retired educator who has given presentations to meetings of the Edmonton branch and contributed several articles to our journal. His latest article in Relatively Speaking is, “Finding the Real Sam McGee,” in the May 2026 issue.

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