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1949-1964

Christopher Braiden

Christopher Braiden was born on May 13, 1939 in England to Irish parents. The family moved to Edmonton in 1959. Braiden became a police officer

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1949-1964

Ruby Swartz

Ruby Swartz is originally from Yellowknife, but has had connections to the Jasper Place area since childhood. Here is her family’s story, and she also

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1949-1964

Charles Zelensky

Charles Zelensky was born in 1957 at the Edmonton General Hospital, one of seven children of Peter and Ruth Zelensky. Peter was from Winnipeg, MB

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1949-1964

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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1964-1990

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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