Joel Currie The Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railroad (EY&P) is better known for its downtown to Strathcona route, but it also had a route that
Eveline Garneau (née de Jong) was born in the Netherlands. At one year of age, she and her parents immigrated to Alberta in June 1960.
Colette Lebeuf 1943 The intersection of 156 Street and Stony Plain Road is seen in the centre of this aerial photo dating from 1943. At
George Murphy has deep connections to the Jasper Place area that go back to early childhood. He is still connected to the area. Here he
Connor J. Thompson The Canadian state began surveying the land in what would become Jasper Place in 1882. Lands formerly home to Indigenous peoples, and
Stennie Noel arrived in Canada from Trinidad & Tobago in 1974. After receiving certification in welding/pipefitting, he moved to Edmonton. He worked on contracts for
Below are excerpts from letters Teuna de Jong wrote to her mother in the Netherlands throughout the 1960s. She and her husband, Jelle, bought a
Corner stores. Paula E. Kirman Jasper Place residents often chose to make many of their grocery and other purchases in corner stores. People chose where
Interviewee stories and reminiscences by former residents provide the backbone of the Jasper Place Community History Project. They evoke growing up and living in the
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,