07/31/2026
🎉CELEBRATING 50 YEARS!🎉
We’ve gathered a collection of some of our favourite memories with friends, family and staff. We wouldn’t be here without all of you and we are grateful to continue serving Quesnel. The second picture is a recreation of the first picture of Gerd and Horst around 20 years later. Horst is still trying to be the taller one 😂
50 years ago Horst and Christa began Quesnel Bakery. 50 years of countless people in the community who helped along the way and supported the business. Horst, Christa and their two boys, Gerd and Franck, came over from Germany in 1969. Horst started as a baker for Safeway in Kamloops and he didn’t even speak any English. A few years later, they moved to Quesnel and eventually bought the bakery beside Safeway and Quesnel Bakery was born. Now at 83, he is still working every morning not because he has to but because he loves to be around the people who have become his family.
Horst and Christa’s son and daughter-in-law, Gerd and Wanda, have led us for the past 15 years. The future is looking bright! Last year Ian and his family joined us from India and we are so proud to have them on our team. Not only is he a great baker but him and his family are kind and wonderful people that have become part of this community. And a special shoutout to our decorator Danielle who wears many hats (even when Gerd falls asleep). We are fortunate to have many amazing staff who have become family, both past and present.
THANK YOU TO YOU ALL!! We look forward to many more years ❤️
📣 If you have any Quesnel Bakery pictures or memories, feel free to share!
