• Packingtown Edmonton
  • History
    • Timeline
    • Oral History >
      • Community Life >
        • Janice Melnychuk
        • Doris Wigemyr and Shirley Mozak
        • Vicky Beauchamp
        • Skating
      • Meatpacking Industry >
        • John Ventura
        • Joe Holoiday
        • Mary Ewasiw
        • Gerry Beauchamp
        • Jerome Bidulka
        • Harvey Appelt
        • Don Lovatt
      • Workers in the Plants >
        • John Ewasiw
        • Ellen Bullock
        • Sheryl Ackerman
        • John Wulchuck
        • Elsie Osmack
        • Terry Bruce
        • "Judas Goat"
        • Ray Loga
      • Gainer’s Strike, 1986 >
        • Renette Peevey
    • Significant Sites in Northeast Edmonton
  • Activities
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
  • Partners
    • Ground Zero Productions
    • Catherine C. Cole, MA, FCMA
    • Maria Dunn
    • Don Bouzek
  • Publicity
  • Funders

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.
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  • Packingtown Edmonton
  • History
    • Timeline
    • Oral History >
      • Community Life >
        • Janice Melnychuk
        • Doris Wigemyr and Shirley Mozak
        • Vicky Beauchamp
        • Skating
      • Meatpacking Industry >
        • John Ventura
        • Joe Holoiday
        • Mary Ewasiw
        • Gerry Beauchamp
        • Jerome Bidulka
        • Harvey Appelt
        • Don Lovatt
      • Workers in the Plants >
        • John Ewasiw
        • Ellen Bullock
        • Sheryl Ackerman
        • John Wulchuck
        • Elsie Osmack
        • Terry Bruce
        • "Judas Goat"
        • Ray Loga
      • Gainer’s Strike, 1986 >
        • Renette Peevey
    • Significant Sites in Northeast Edmonton
  • Activities
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
  • Partners
    • Ground Zero Productions
    • Catherine C. Cole, MA, FCMA
    • Maria Dunn
    • Don Bouzek
  • Publicity
  • Funders