Packingtown

COMMUNITY LIFE

Community member Janice Melnychuk describes what it was like as a child in Northeast Edmonton in the 1960s – feeling protected, having a sense of community, a sense of place and a sense of belonging. 

Sisters Doris Wigemyr and Shirley Mozak describe the fresh food and company offered in a café that their parents owned, and their mother operated with her sisters, in the former North Edmonton Post Office on Fort Road in the mid-1950s. 

Former plant worker Vicky Beauchamp describes how families thrived and the community grew through the labour of neighbours working at Burns or Canada Packers in the post-war period.

Sisters Doris Wigemyr and Shirley Mozak describe skating as teenagers with hockey star Johnny Bucyk on an outdoor rink, and using frozen horse manure for a puck, in the 1950s.

Angela Fasenko, Buddy Noon, Bill Dolan, Doris Wigemyr, and Shirley Mozak share stories about skating in the Fort Road community during their childhoods.