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Battle of Alberta Timeline pt. 2: 20th Century: 1900-1919

[ Alberta Story ] [ part 1 ] [ part 2 ] [ part 3 eventually ]

Phew. (again).

So I spent an inordinate amount of time not doing this and that was terrible. It's like not showering, I was so itchy.

Originally I intended to do the 20th century all in one go like the previous timeline, but my focus shifted, my reasons for continuing uh change with the times i guess, and I wanted to be a little bit more focused and thoughtful as I made this.

While I do still intend this as kind of a cheat sheet for myself to reference past decisions I've made, I also don't really envision this as something that is set in stone. It's more of just a milestone, a marker of where my thoughts are at, and I may end up retconning or reimagining parts of it as my understanding changes. There's still a lot I am missing or have glossed over and that's fine, I'll learn to live with it and fill in the gaps as I go in other ways.

Once again, this is something that I could go into depth explaining and elaborating on but to save myself time and energy I will simply point at the ask box and leave it there.

Enjoy (again) :)

[acetechne]

oh no pride month is almost over and i havent drawn enough weird gay stuff aaaaaaa

here is the continuation of "what if Étienne did actually come over for the playoffs while the rest of the oil fam was over (even if only to enjoy Ed's smooth face)"

anyway i Always have this song in my head around this time of year so enjoy

[randomoranges]

i lost a wagerino to @allbeendonebefore

i was tasked to draw ét and mac hanging out.

yes, those are sliced cucumbers, so glad you asked. and yes, they do have face goop on that didn't come through the picture, so glad you asked again.

[allbeendonebefore]

(this is right to left not left to right sorry)

going through photos of comics i drew at work in 2019 that i never posted and nothing is funnier to me than this really angsty comic of ed yelling at calvin for ghosting him for 9+ months (and then the smoke alarm going off because he started burning what he was cooking) being immediately followed by this

[battle-of-alberta]

Happy Pride from Battle of Alberta

I probably don't need to explain why doing these doodles is relevant if you have paid even an ounce of attention to the world but I can at least provide some local relevance.

And something to do about it, of course :)

Palettes are all from branding guides, either the official city/province guide, the tourism/local business association guide, or in GP's case colour picked from the strategic plan while we wait for the city to get one together lol. Let me know if there's a particular colour palette that you like best~ some of these colours actually do have cutesy names!

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i bet no one has made fort mcmiku yet :)

listen life is hard, the news is wearing us all down, every day ms marlaina finds some new way to fuck us over, yego.death still hasn't returned to light our way, but we gotta keep truckin. (or bicyclin in my case)

[battle-of-alberta]

i didnt forget about that 1930s poll ages ago i didn't i promise [sob]

unfortunately my current research is mostly either in 1990 or 1910 and not much in between but here's some fashionable doodles i guess?

[battle-of-alberta]

Finally introducing Marion (Sherwood Park) after months and months of teasing! She represents a bedroom community east of Edmonton that "technically" is one of the largest cities in Alberta... or would be, if it was actually a city.

Your first fun fact is that Marion was originally going to be named Campbelltown, but since there were too many Campbelltowns across Canada, Canada Post forced her to change it to avoid confusion. She's much much younger than most of the other munis being founded in 1953.

More fun facts below!

Like Mac, Marion represents a "hamlet" in a very large service area, which means she can reap the benefits of being both rural and urban at the same time while also benefiting from living in Ed's shadow too.

I think generally the relationship between her and Ed is "he's scary! one time, i actually had to go to his house and nearly died!!"

where Ed is like "I don't know what her deal is or why she freaks out whenever I'm around" (meanwhile Edith trying to explode her with her mind)

She's just masc enough that Mac doesn't feel intimidated by her and they're best buddies. Her other close friends are other satellite communities such as Stab St. Albert and Spruce, etc.

The Strathcona County Website boasts their own Raisin Sour Cream Pie Recipe, which is sooo mid-century 'Berta lol. Back in the 50s, Marion had much longer hair, but found the upkeep too difficult and sheared it all off some time in the last few decades.

Refinery Row occasionally makes national meme news, I remember seeing some "THIS CITY IN CANADA LOOKS LIKE THE EYE OF SAURON" type clickbait on blogto or some such thing that I can't find now, and apart from not being a city, we immediately clocked the location from the photo. It just looks like that sometimes. Don't worry about it. :)

Like I say, don't worry about it!

Was doing a lot of newspaper research in the late 80s/early 90s and a plastics plant explosion was front page news for a while, so this was on my mind.