

This is just a piece of the former Canada Packers Plant in Edmonton. In the huge multi-acre land, this is the only remaining piece of the former giant plant that remains. Below is a brief history of the plant.
The brick chimney stack just off Fort Road north of the Yellowhead Trail towers more than 30 metres (100-feet) above a barren field, a sentinel reminder of what was once one of the countrys most sophisticated packing plant buildings. The Canada Packers plant rose up in 1936, right from the depths of the Great Depression, and provided much needed employment for hundreds of citizens desperate for a job.
When the plant came down piece by piece in 1995, it brought to an end a nearly 60-year story that was part of the prosperity and development of Edmonton. The stack, considered the largest brick chimney in western Canada, was saved from the wrecking ball by Edmonton architect Gene Dub, who owned the property at the time.
Source: http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view2?CONTENT_ID=923