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AJAKAJA
Alberta Estonian Heritage Society
Summer 2025 Volume 00
TEMPLATE
This is an Eckville and District Museum project to help preserve the publications of Ajakaja, a biannual magazine containing Estonian Heritage articles. Estonian pioneers settled in the Medicine Valley (north of Eckville) and were active members of the community helping establishing, amongst other organizations, the Estonian School and the Estonian and Gilby Halls.
AEHS Biannual Publication
Ajakaja was initiated by the Edmonton Estonian Society (EES). Publication of Ajakaja was continued by the AEHS after the Edmonton, Calgary, Barons, Stettler and Eckville societies (or the past members) were united as the AEHS in 2005. The reproduction of Ajakaja on this website includes PDF page images and OCR translated text.
The editors of Ajakaja went to great lengths to balance and format each of the pages in the publication to conform with the fixed format of an 8 1/2 by 11 inch magazine. The information contained within the articles is valuable historic information that compounds its value over time. The detailed attention to the appearance and flow of the material is an equally impressive work of art that is indicative of our era and a component that will help define us. To that end we are retaining PDF images of the original publications.
The appropriateness of the editors presentation for a paper document is undeniable, however we recognize that access to the information will continue to evolve with the introduction of newer technologies. On this basis we apologize to the editors for the divergence from the fixed display. It is a consequence of dynamic text display. We feel confident, however, that the furtherance of this valuable information justifies our approach.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) translated text enables word wrap capabilities on small display devices (ie cell phones etc.) The OCR translation is an ongoing work in progress. As a result, issues may or may not contain articles with dynamic text displays. The preamble you are reading at this moment is presented in dynamic text display.
To observe the automatic organization of dynamic text, rotate your phone. If you are on a large display, narrow or expand your window. Find an article that is presented in both PDF and dynamic text mode and compare the fixed format of the PDF display vs the dynamic text display by using phone rotation or window sizing. The dynamic display adjusts to the device and the way you are using it.
Bob Kingsep, EADM Web Administrator
