Alberta’s Legendary Indie Turns 50

This week, Edmonton celebrated the 50th anniversary of the opening of one of Canada’s most successful independent booksellers. “Hurtig Books proved virtually an immediate success, the only full-service, independently operated book retailer between Toronto and Vancouver. Within a decade, it was being hailed by many as the best bookstore in Canada and, after a couple of moves to ever-larger premises as well as the opening of two satellite outlets, had become one of the biggest book retailers in the country, perhaps even the biggest.”