1949-1964
Life in the ’50s and early ’60s in the Town of Jasper Place
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
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,
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,
1949-1964
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
1949-1964
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
1964-1990
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
