The story of Post Street
Older than the neighbourhood around it.
The Canada Cement Company began building a plant just north of today's Whyte Ridge, on a site chosen for its large clay deposits. Housing, stores and a school grew up along McGillivray for its workers, on new side streets such as Bessboro, Front, Alpha and Post Street.
In the late 1950s, workers at the plant began a waterfowl sanctuary on its grounds. It opened as the Fort Whyte Nature Centre in 1974, and lives on today as FortWhyte Alive, with its trails and lakes a ten minute walk west along McGillivray.
Whyte Ridge itself was built from 1986, beginning with East Lake and its park. The soil dug out for the lake became the hill, or ridge, in the park. The name comes from William Whyte, a railway manager who led a bloodless 1888 standoff over railway rights on land beside today's neighbourhood.
Now Post Street gets its newest neighbour: 25 Post Street, with 228 brand new rental homes on the corner of McGillivray and Post. Move-in begins in spring 2027.









