Summer 2022 marks the Ritchie Community League’s one hundredth anniversary, a milestone that merits celebration! To mark this anniversary, we are planning a year’s worth of exciting projects, events, and collaborations that celebrate stories and people throughout Ritchie's past while looking to the future; our Centennial Celebration.

Throughout the year, we hope to encourage community engagement through these various projects that explore Ritchie's history and culture. We want to foster connection through our neighbourhood's unique history and offerings while looking towards a future that celebrates inclusivity, diversity, and community.

To kick off our Centennial Celebration, we are thrilled to share the first of these projects, our centennial podcast: A Little Bit Ritchie! Hosted by Ritchie resident Lydia Neufeld, A Little Bit Ritchie dives into the history of the League and the lands that make up the Ritchie community. We hope that the podcast challenges, inspires, and reassesses notions of place, community, and public space.

We want to thank our Centennial Coordinator Elyse Colville and Centennial Researcher Linnea Bell for their tireless effort in bringing this project together. We also want to thank Tierra Connor for designing our centennial logo.

 We have more planned throughout the year, so stay tuned, and we hope that you will join us in celebrating 100 years of the Ritchie Community League!

 - Erin Fraser and Seghan MacDonald
Centennial Celebration Committee Co-chairs

  This project is supported by the Edmonton Heritage Council and the City of Edmonton.