The Oral History of 20th Street: Many Faces of a City Core Neighbourhood in Saskatoon, Canada

The “Oral History of 20th Street: Many Faces of a City Core Neighbourhood” is a multiyear community-based and student-led research project conducted at the University of Saskatchewan by the students enrolled in a third year anthropology course titled "Oral History and Storytelling: Anthropological Perspectives." Over the course of two academic years (2012-2014), as a part of their training in the methodology of oral history, students connected to 20th Street through various field activities. They interviewed a number of individuals, living and working on 20th Street or in its vicinity, and then recorded, transcribed and documented their life histories. Through these activities, they preserved an important slice of local cultural memory that effectively profiles the rich social history of this rapidly transforming urban area. Diverse and distinct, these stories are brought together in this online public history exhibit, as patches of a rich quilt of history representing in many ways the disappearing social landscape.