If These Halls Could Talk
If These Halls Could Talk
Episodes
Trailer: "If These Halls Could Talk"
To celebrate the 100th birthday of the iconic Heritage Hall building, a dynamic and intriguing eight-episode audio series called, If These Halls Could Talk, was created. Listen as historians, your fellow alumni and ...
The Castle on the Hill: Third-place prize to first-class institute
SAIT’s roots are as old as the famous Calgary/Edmonton rivalry. After Alberta became a province in 1905, its newly formed government gave Edmonton both the provincial legislature building and the province’s first university. After determined ca...
Architecture of a Queen: A monument for the future
The future looked incredibly bright for Calgary in the early 1920s, and the construction of a majestic new home for the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA) was a testament to that. Taking shape high above the bustling city, and bu...
No. 2 Wireless School at Heritage Hall: Heroes in training
In less than one week at the start of the Second World War, the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA, as SAIT was known then) moved all of its students to temporary classrooms throughout the city. Why? So that the British Commonweal...
Growing Up in Heritage Hall: The University Demonstration School
After the Second World War, the Calgary Normal School (a training school for primary and secondary school teachers) returned to the west wing of Heritage Hall as the Calgary Branch of the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education University ...