Congratulations to Sheila Gordon for her Canada 150 Banner Project design

Canada 150 & Eamon’s by Sheila Gordon

This is the second year of the Banner Project sponsored by the Rotary Club of High River, by the Town of High River, and by the High River Library.
 
Sheila’s submission shows the historic Eamon’s Garage, with its iconic Eamon’s Camp sign, against a backdrop of the Canadian Flag.
 
Information available from the Library website indicates that entries to the 2017 Banner Project closed on May1. Banners will be displayed throughout the month of September in the Library Art gallery.
 
A panel of Community jurors will consider each design and select those which will be printed in a size of 30″ by 73″ and mounted on light standards throughout the Town.
 

Congratulations to Sheila for a well conceived Canada 150 Banner design.

April 22 2017 Eamon’s Work Day

 
A dedicated crew of workers weathered 3 degree C temperatures in the early morning on a Work Day dedicated to preparing the Eamon’s Garage building for new plumbing and electrical.
 
Good thing it warmed up later in the day. You can clearly see that the building is well “air conditioned” at this point. In fact you might even call it “open air”
 
You can see the screw piles and steel I-beam foundation now supporting the structure.
 
Wes Shaw and the crew from Shawnee Excavating can also be seen dumping one of the many loads of fill required to prepare the floor for its future new pad.
 
Photos in the Gallery are courtesy of Lillian Shavalier.
 

New photos arrived today, courtesy of Gary Sundholm. Thanks Gary!
 
He mentioned in his note that the pictures were taken in August of 1997.
 
Hope you enjoy the additions to our archive.



 
If you have any photos in your collection which you are willing to share with River City Classics, please attach them to an e-mail and send it to rivercityclassics@gmail.com

This article is excerpted with permission from the original
by Andrew Guilbert, Avenue Magazine, July 27, 2015

You may reach the complete, original article here.
 

The Story of the Eamon Station
An authentic piece of Calgary art deco architecture.

Photo Courtesy Bob Everett (former Eamon’s owner)

Photo Courtesy Bob Everett (former Eamon’s owner)

Eamon’s Project Update for Sept 7, 2016

Check out the pictures. The Banner, Screw Piles and Steel are all on site and we’re ready to go the next step.
 

 
Thanks to our sponsors, Base Pile & Anchor and Groenwold Construction for getting us to this point.
 
That’s Herman you see standing in the back of the pick-up supervising scraping of the work site prior to installation of the Screw Piles.
 

The Eamon’s Garage project is urgently looking for two Experienced Volunteers.
 
Think of this as the equivalent of a Sponsorship Opportunity only its for “sweat equity” rather than dollars.
 
Each volunteer will be recognized by name on a Sponsorship Banner and on a Garage Mounted Plaque.
 
Key to the project will be the Site Supervisor. This individual will schedule the work of other volunteers and oversee the project timeline.
 
We are also looking for the services of a Plumber with experience in bathrooms, sewer and pump out tanks.
 
If you would like to become involved in the project and assist your community, call Jeff Johnstone, Eamon’s Project Manager, at 587-894-4175.

We recently received the attached pictures of a postcard from the 1960’s showing Eamons Motel as it was at the time.

Pictures on the outside suggest the amenities available to the road traveler on the way to Cochrane and beyond.

The map in the inside shows how small Calgary was at the time. Notice that Eamons was on RR #4, definitely outside the City limits.

We aren’t sure of the story behind this postcard. If you or a someone else you know could give us that story, we would be happy to hear and publish it.