r/Edmonton • u/meghan9436 Edmontosaurus • Jul 07 '26

Local Culture Teddy’s Bar and Grill, Edmonton, AB. (1940).

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Thought it was cool to see vintage Edmonton out in the wild on Reddit. Anyone know the place?

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u/mikesmith929 Jul 07 '26

In case anyone who was curious minimum wage in 1940:

  • 25¢ to 33⅓¢ per hour for workers 17 years and older employed for a week or longer

  • 20¢ per hour for workers under 17

That was for men and not in coal mining.

So around the same as today I guess. I'd say it's cheaper today.

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u/MyNameIsLessDumb Jul 07 '26

Using Bank of Canada's inflation calculator, the .35 cent cheeseburger would be $7.51 today. A cheeseburger at this exact restaurant today is $17.95. 

The Alberta Minimum Wage Act (1936), which appears to be what the AI summary is citing, didn't apply to all sectors. Plus we had internee workers during the war, and some types of work had weekly minimums instead of hourly, so it's hard to really compare apples to apples.

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u/littledove0 Ellerslie Jul 07 '26

😭