The Neighbourhood

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Stop and take a minute to look around you. Has the neighbourhood changed in the time you have lived here?

It is hard to imaging that Glen Allan has not always looked this way. Stores have come and gone, new roads and buildings have been built, and Sherwood Park has grown around it.

Here are some of your neighbours memories on how the Glen Allan community has changed over the last 50 years.

MaryAnn Saskiw

"Our son remembered Gilmore Park; all the way to Bev Facey, as being nothing but bush, forest and trails to ride his bike."

"Our mall had a Safeway on the north end, with Erica's Delicatessen, Tamblyn Drugstore, a Restaurant Maid Marion's. Perhaps later a Saan Store, Biway... On baseline a totally new concept in grocery shopping - Superstore arrived. One could purchase a few office supplies, greeting cards, clothing for the family, develop pictures from your 35 mm camera. Later patio furniture sets, tv, dishes, appliances - all together in one store! Amazing! Further down Baseline was a huge Aikenshead Hardware Store, shortly changed to Home Depot. Beaver Lumber ( I liked that store, I'd bring in a flashlight...they'd check the batteries or bulb to see what was required.) Totem to Rona. A big K Mart Store as well, a Variety Store."

Paul Sandaluk

"I recall walking across across Baseline Road with our little boys (it was two lanes then) in the 80’s to catch (and release) frogs in the ponds and wetland that surrounded the the short dead end lane (now Brower Drive) before the Churches, the health centre and the retirement home were built."

Does Your Neighbourhood Look Different?

The Mall

Sherwood Park Mall, originally named Eastgate Mall, was built in 1972.

Glenbrook Blvd

Krokosh family

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