Alberta during the Spanish Flu

"Spanish flu was Edmonton’s first modern pandemic. Introduced infectious disease, though, had been a defining feature of life on the Canadian prairies since the fur trade. From the 1730s to the 1870s, contagious diseases “swept through the region with regularity,” James Daschuk wrote in Clearing the Plains,his study of the historic roots of health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians."

Link to Edmonton Journal: "What life was like in Alberta during the Spanish flu, COVID-19's nearest historical precedent"