This page also includes material from the CJCA-FM years, before the call letter change to CIRK.
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- Early 1930s
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- On location (mobile studio) at the Edmonton Exhibition in the 1950s
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L-R (rockets): Bob Bell, Curley Gurlock, George Payne, Ed Laurence & Edg-rrr the Tiger (mascot), Ken Foss
L-R (people): Curly Gurlock, Doug Homersham, Don Dykeman, George Payne, Don Chevrier, Ed Laurence
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- Bringing out the Rockets
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CJCA’s home in the Birks Building
1950s photo by Ed Laurence while broadcasting atop a girder
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Downtown Edmonton, looking East along Jasper Avenue
1950s photo by Ed Laurence while broadcasting atop a girder
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Steve the Janitor (1950s)
photo: Ed Laurence
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Production and FM Control Room
April 1962
courtesy Doug Thompson
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Barry Boyd in Control Room
April 1962
courtesy Doug Thompson
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Barry Boyd in CJCA Control Room
April 1962
courtesy Doug Thompson
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CJCA Tiger Radio on a remote 1963
photographer unknown; courtesy Doug Thompson
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CJCA Newsroom
Murray Blakely
February 1963
courtesy Doug Thompson
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A Dick Clark appearance in Edmonton during his syndicated show on CJCA
August 1963
courtesy: Doug Thompson
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- Dick Clark
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- Barry Boyd (right) and Dick Clark (left)
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- Lorne Thompson, live co-host of Dick Clark’s syndicated show
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- circa 1987, courtesy James Paterson
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- circa 1989, courtesy James Paterson
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- CJCA DJs in 1964
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- Front cover 1964 Spring Shower of Stars
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- Inside brochure 1964 Spring Shower of Stars
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- Inside brochure 1964 Spring Shower of Stars
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- Back cover 1964 Spring Shower of Stars
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- CJCA DJ Andy Michaelson
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- CJCA doorway, 4th floor Birks Building
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- CJCA Newsroom with Paul Bourrie
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- Paul Bourrie through glass from AM control
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- CJCA-AM Control Room with Carter Zygmont
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- Production/FM Control Room
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- VE9AI 1957 QSL card
Fond memories
Edmonton Journal
December 7, 1993, p. A9
[CJCA went off the air for several months in December 1993 before new owners signed the station on again.]
Sorry to hear about CJCA. It is ironic the station should go under just as the Edmonton Eskimos win another Grey Cup. For more years than we care to remember, CJCA owned the rights to the Eskimo broadcasts. To many of us, they were inseparable.
When we were growing up in eastern Alberta in the early fifties, CJCA was the only station we could be sure of getting. We knew everyone. Some well known people went through the station’s doors – sports announcers like Russ Sheppard, Joe Carbury, and Blue Jays announcer Don Chevrier, to name a few – all brought to us by the local Burgess Battery dealer. Morning announcers like Jim Hault (his introductions of Bryan Hall should have been preserved for comic posterity) and, of course, Bob Arnold. With everyone singing the Eskimo fight song, I wonder how many remember who wrote the song back in the fifties? A CJCA dynamo named Peggy Miller.
The big CJCA sign was a landmark on Jasper Avenue and to rural visitors in those bygone years (you know you’re getting old when you use a phrase like “bygone years”) it suggested a world of great sophistication.
Sorry to see you go, CJCA.
Bob Davidson
Edmonton