Businesses & Services: 1911 – 1944
The 1911 Carruthers Caveat prohibits businesses in the area of Glenora, west of Groat Ravine. As a result, businesses and services develop on the periphery of the neighbourhood, particularly along 124 Street, then known as Edwards Street. Early businesses providing services to Glenora residents include Milton McCray’s garage to repair and store vehicles, Giles Meat Market, and the Glenora Service Station. Milk, ice, bread, and coal are delivered to homes by horse and wagon. Fresh vegetables are grown and delivered by Chinese gardeners who have gardens below and east of Government House.
Giles Meat Market opens on Stony Plain Road at 126 Street.
(Photo Source: Provincial Archives of Alberta)
1912
Display in window of James Ramsey Department Store, Edmonton, Alberta owned by Glenora resident James Ramsey offering quality merchandise from around the world, c. 1914.
Interior display, c. 1916
(Photo Source: Glenbow Archives)
1912
Buena Vista Building (on right) constructed at 124 Street and 102 Avenue. Shops selling groceries and meats, and a drugstore were on the ground floor and apartments were on the upper 2 floors. The Merchant’s Bank was next door.
The Patricia Confectionary, Imperial Oil Service Station and Safeway (in background) on the left, looking north on 124 Street, c. 1939.
(Photo Source: Glenbow Archives)
1915
McCray’s Garage (102 Avenue and 126 Street).
Parking Garage interior c. 1920s.
(Photo Source: Glenbow Archives)
By 1919, Streetcar service extends along 102 Avenue to 139 Street. In the winter of 1919, the streetcar crashes through the railing of the wooden bridge at 131 Street and lands in the Ramsay Ravine.
(Photo Source: Glenbow Archives)
1920
Streetscape looking east on 102 Avenue from the new iron bridge over Groat Ravine. McCray’s on left, Robertson Presbyterian Church and Buena Vista Building in distance.
(Photo Source: Edmonton Archives)
1928
Glenora Service Station on the corner of 102 Avenue and 124 Street, the present day Esso station site.
(Photo Source: Glenbow Archives)
1932
A new bridge is constructed over the Ramsey Ravine on 102 Avenue. The bridge, a “make work” project during the Great Depression, is now on the City of Edmonton Historic Resources Inventory.
(Photo Source: Provincial Archives)
1934
Looking east from Churchill Crescent at the newly constructed Wellington Bridge and towards Wellington Crescent on the right.
(Photo Source: Glenbow Archives)
1941
Lee’s Drug Store, in the Lowe block, on the corner of 124 Street and Stony Plain Road.
(Photo Source: Glenbow Archives)