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Grande Prairie is a city in northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country.It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), approximately 456 km (283 mi) northwest of Edmonton.
English: Automatically generated series of street maps depicting Alberta urban communities. Municipal boundaries: AltaLIS open data accessed May 25, 2019. Road network: Statistics Canada NRN 2018. Water features, forest cover, and contour lines, Natural Resources Canada CanVec 50k series.
It is approximately 486 kilometres (302 mi) northwest of Edmonton and 198 kilometres (123 mi) northeast of Grande Prairie on Highway 2. It was known as the Village of Peace River Crossing between 1914 and 1916. [7] The Peace River townsite is nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) below the relatively flat terrain surrounding it.
Landmark Cinema of Canada Inc. is a Canadian cinema chain. Based in Calgary, Alberta , Landmark operates 36 theatres with 299 screens, [ 2 ] primarily in Ontario and western Canada. Its holdings include much of the former Empire Theatres chain which it acquired in late 2013, and some Famous Players locations divested as part of that chain's ...
Wedgewood is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within the County of Grande Prairie No. 1. [2] It is immediately adjacent to the City of Grande Prairie on the west side of Resources Road (Range Road 60), approximately 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) east of Highway 40 and 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) north of Highway 668.
Highway 40 is a south–north highway in western Alberta, Canada. [2] It is also named Bighorn Highway and Kananaskis Trail in Kananaskis Country. Its segmented sections extend from Coleman in the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass northward to the City of Grande Prairie and is currently divided into four sections. [3]
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. [2] These provinces are partially covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, mostly in the southern regions.