Grocery Store

Address: 2700 Block - 223 Street

This building was an Italian grocery store
during the 1920s. The proprietor, Mr. Pagialli, sold Italian specialities such as olive oil and tuna fish as well as other groceries. Olives were sold loose, scooped from a barrel. The building was later used to house an overflow of students from the school, and then once again as a grocery store. The store is a fine example of commercial architecture. It is a small but imposing single storey red brick structure on a fieldstone foundation with a boomtown facade. Note the course of fancy brickwork under the parapet.

Directions: Enter Bellevue off Highway 3 by the east access, and turn right at the first fork, This route leads through Maple Leaf, once a separate community, but now part of Bellevue. The community of Maple Leaf sprang up around the small Maple Leaf Mine that opened in 1907. Businesses soon included a butcher, shoemaker and a blacksmith shop.

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