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Downtown Edmonton is the central business district of Edmonton, Alberta. Located at the geographical centre of the city, the downtown area is bounded by 109 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, 97 Avenue and Rossdale Road to the south, and the North Saskatchewan River to the southeast.
Art Gallery of Alberta. The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum occupies an 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) building at Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. The museum building was originally designed by Donald G. Bittorf, and B. James Wensley, although portions of that structure were ...
A resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian. [19] Edmonton was first inhabited by First Nations peoples of Algonquian, Athabaskan, and Siouan origin. These peoples and their ancestors inhabited the area of the modern city intermittently beginning at the close of the last glacial period, perhaps as early as 12,000 BC. [20]
Crowds celebrating Edmonton being named Alberta's capital, 1905. The first settlement outside of the fort was in the 1870s, pioneer farmers living in rustic log cabins along the river - these farms formed the structure for the 1882 survey of the land into "riverlots", as exceptions to the usual grid-format Dominion Land Survey dominant across the rest of the Prairies. "1885 Street" at Fort ...
Edmonton municipality Q37778213: More images: Molstad Residence 9633 95th Avenue, Edmonton AB Alberta , Edmonton municipality Q38529019: More images: Old St. Stephen's College 8820 112th Street, Edmonton AB
1907-13 – real estate and construction boom. With amalgamation of Cities of Strathcona and Edmonton, the population of Edmonton grew to 72,500. [7] 1907 – Six miners die in a fire at the Strathcona Coal Company, near south end of today's High Level Bridge, the worst industrial accident Edmonton has suffered. 1908.
Fort Edmonton Park (sometimes referred to as " Fort Edmonton ") is an attraction in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Named for the first enduring European post in the area of modern-day Edmonton, the park is the largest living history museum in Canada by area. [1] It includes both original and rebuilt historical structures representing the history of ...
Explorer. Years active. 1750–62. Anthony Henday (fl. c. 1725–1762) was one of the first Europeans to explore the interior of what would eventually become western Canada. He ventured farther westward than any white man had before him. [1] As an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, he travelled across the prairies in the 1750s, journeyed ...