[7] Now located within northeast Edmonton, Beverly was a coal mining community that overlooked the North Saskatchewan River valley.

[11] The town hall was a multi-purpose facility that also housed police, courts and the fire service on the main floor.

One of the famous five, Emily Murphy worked in the Beverly town hall as a Justice of the Peace.

Records show there were over twenty larger coal mines in the area, and an unknown number of small operations as well.

The GTPR even built a spur line to provide direct rail service to two of the largest mines.

"A provincial study revealed that by the end of the 1930s, many Beverly families had been on welfare more than ten years.

"[12] In 1956, a royal commission recommended Beverly, as well as the Town of Jasper Place and portions of surrounding rural municipalities, amalgamate with Edmonton, to which then Mayor John Sehn agreed.

[8] Five years later, in 1961, after being promised a new bridge for vehicular traffic across the North Saskatchewan River at 50 Street, residents of Beverly cast ballots in a referendum regarding amalgamation with Edmonton in which 62% voted in favour.

[15] Pipe houses located along the riverbanks of the North Saskatchewan River help expel the methane gas compressed below the park.

Set along the riverbanks were dozens of mines and were the main source of income for the residents of the Town of Beverly.