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Whonnock General Store 1885 – 1916


The creation of the white settlement called Whonnock started with the coming of the railroad and a railway station. Noble Oliver built the Firrst General Store here in the early 1880s, and the Whonnock post office started in 1885. The site of the store is now under the Lougheed Highway. The building burned down in March, 1916. The right part of the building is where the shopkeeper and his family lived.
Levi C. York and his daughter Gwen.
L.C. York bought the store in 1891 and was postmaster from 1894 to 1906
Noble Oliver, Whonnock’s First shopkeeper and postmaster, seen here with his wife, Catherine Rob-inson, in front of their home on what is now 272nd. Ave.