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Learn about the History of Jasper Place

Welcome to the Jasper Place Community History!

Jasper Place is a community with a rich history, and many of its residents have been here for generations. 

Find historical information about the Edmonton neighbourhood of Jasper Place by clicking on the map markers that take you to points of interest, using the search bar, or by browsing through the website. Here you will find a treasure trove of articles on the people and places of Jasper Place. The history is grounded in the stories gathered from the residents of Jasper Place throughout the years.

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Chrystia Chomiak

Myrna Kostash Chrystia Chomiak grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in a modest bungalow in Canora, a core neighbourhood of Jasper Place. Her parents,

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Shirley Romany

Donna Coombs-Montrose Shirley Romany of a large singe-parent family, arrived in Canada from her native Trinidad and Tobago with early hair styling training in 1963,

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Barrie Touchings

Barrie Touchings was two years old when his parents bought a house at 10450 154th Street. His paternal grandmother had come from England and grandfather

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Ken (Bud) Newman

Ken (Bud) Newman was raised and attended school in the Town of Jasper Place in the 1950s and 1960s. Both of his parents had grown

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Cynthia Palmaria

Cynthia Palmaria was born and raised in the Philippines. Her parents joined the first stream of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) who came to Canada in

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Goitom “Tom” Fessahye

Donna Coombs-Montrose Eritrea-born Goitom “Tom” Fessahye and his wife came as refugees from Sudan to Edmonton in 1983.  He refreshed his university education and completed

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Danilo De Leon

Danilo De Leon is a Filipino immigrant who currently makes his home in Jasper Place. The attached transcript contains excerpts from a longer interview conducted

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Joy Correia

Joy Correia was born in Kenya to parents of Indian ancestry. Her family arrived in Canada when she was five, and her parents taught for

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Constance Thomas

Constance Thomas was born in the Commonwealth of Dominica and migrated to Canada in 1974 after receiving Registered Nurses (RN) training at the University Hospital

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Exterior of The Flag shop featuring the sign of the business.

The Flag Shop

Paula E. Kirman When it comes to businesses in the Stony Plain Road area, The Flag Shop is often thought of as flagship. It is

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Phyllis Bright

Phyllis Bright moved with her family to the Meadowlark (Park) neighbourhood of Jasper Place from Winnipeg because, as she explained in a recent interview, “It

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Rashpal Sehmby

Rashpal Sehmby

Rashpal Sehmby immigrated from India to the Northwest Territories as a child in 1974 where his dad had been hired as a mechanic at Cominco’s

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Mural depicting sketches of "Wop" May, planes he flew in WWI, and a plane with Edmonton on the side landing in what is now Mayfield

Wop May Park

Mayfield Park, located at 10941 – 161 Street, was established in 1982 in the Mayfield neighbourhood, once part of the Town of Jasper Place. The neighbourhood

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