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,
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
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
Memories of Jasper Place: Community Members Reminisce.
Paula E. Kirman For this issue, we decided to look at the history of Jasper Place in the words of people who lived in the
The Starlite Drive-In
The Starlite Drive-In Theatre, Edmonton’s first outdoor cinema, was a staple in the Jasper Place neighbourhood that became Meadowlark Park for decades, from June 1949
Shirley Romany: first Black business owner in Jasper Place
Brooke Leifso Shirley Romany has been a pioneering Jasper Place business owner since the late 1960s. At that time, the Canadian government was opening up
