Its former municipal centre, which included its town hall, fire station and extant Butler Memorial Park, was located at Stony Plain Road and 157 Street.

[3] In its early days, the community was home to a few hundred homesteaders, who lived a meagre life raising a few animals and tending gardens.

Many residents worked in Edmonton, and by the 1940s the trolley line extended to the modern 149 Street, close enough to Jasper Place to allow returning workers to walk the rest of the way home.

[6] In the early 1960s, to accommodate continuing growth, Jasper Place expanded several schools, including Jasper Place Composite High School, began construction of a sports centre (football bowl, indoor swimming pool, indoor ice hockey arena),[10] and commenced planning the original Meadowlark Park Shopping Centre.

Projects such as these placed the town deeply in debt and, with little industrial base, an increasing demand for services by the growing population, the province refusing to grant extra funds, and the large City of Edmonton already touching the town's boundary along the east side of 149 Street, Jasper Place's independence as its own municipality was at risk.