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The Princess Theatre is a two-screen art-house cinema located at 10337 Whyte Avenue in Edmonton's historic Old Strathcona neighbourhood. The building was designed by prominent Edmonton architects Wilson and Herrald, a firm responsible for the design of many other Edmonton heritage sites. [2]
Rowand House in Fort Edmonton Park Whyte Avenue in Old Strathcona has numerous popular bars The University of Alberta contains over 90 buildings.. Castrol Raceway (formerly Capital City Raceway & Labatt Raceway)
Whyte (82) Avenue is an arterial road in south-central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It became the main street of the City of Strathcona as it formed, and now runs through Old Strathcona . It was named in 1891 after Sir William Whyte , the superintendent of the CPR's western division from 1886 to 1897, knighted by King George V in 1911. [ 2 ]
The City of Strathcona amalgamated with Edmonton in 1912. A large part of Whyte Avenue's popularity is the historical character of its buildings, many of which are more than one hundred years old. [3] The oldest building is the Strathcona Hotel at 10302 Whyte Avenue. It was built in 1891 by the railway and until 1904 was the largest hotel in ...
The Varscona's name is an homage to Edmonton's original Varscona Theatre, a 1940s art deco movie theatre formerly located at the intersection of Whyte Avenue & 109 Street. The movie theatre was demolished in 1987 for the construction of a credit union (later a TD Canada Trust ).
Before Edmonton's amalgamation with Strathcona in 1912, the Edmonton portion was known as 9th Street while the Strathcona portion was known as 5th Street W. [1] 109 Street between Whyte Avenue and Kingsway is part of the original alignment of Highway 2 through Edmonton, the designation was moved to Whitemud Drive in the 1980s. [3]
10302 Whyte Avenue, Edmonton AB 53°31′6″N 113°29′43″W / 53.51833°N 113.49528°W / 53.51833; -113.49528 ( Strathcona Alberta ( 3194 )
Broke is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Rosvita Dransfeld and released in 2009. [1] The film centres on the friendship between David Woolfson, a pawn shop owner in Edmonton, Alberta, and Chris Hoard, an ex-convict who volunteers as an assistant to Woolfson in the shop.