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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.
Peter Hide (born 1944), British-born sculptor, living in Edmonton since 1977 [98] Arthur Hiller (1923–2016), Hollywood film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America; Carl Honoré (born 1967), grew up in Edmonton; journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness [99] Mel Hurtig (1932–2016), publisher, author, and ...
Hilwie Jomha Hamdon (1905 - 1988) was a Muslim woman from Edmonton, Alberta, who organized support and funding to build the first mosque in Canada, the Al-Rashid Mosque. She was born in current day Lebanon in 1905.
Shortly after moving to Edmonton in 1911, he required more space and moved into the building which was built by a blacksmith John Kelly. Not long after Kelly's death Ramsey bought the building from his widow in 1926 for $100,000. He then extended the story westward calling it the Ramsey Building.
The City of Edmonton named both a park and a future residential area in Decoteau's honour in 2014. A park at the northwest corner of 105 Street and 102 Avenue in Downtown Edmonton was named Alex Decoteau Park on September 24, 2014. [16] A future residential area in southeast Edmonton was named Decoteau on October 28, 2014. [17]
Covered what is now downtown, north of the river. [7] 1896 - Edmonton pioneer, newspaperman and NWT Council member Frank Oliver elected as MP for Alberta. [8] 1897 – Edmonton was a starting point for people making the trek overland to the Klondike Gold Rush. Nearby South Edmonton (Strathcona) was the northernmost railway point on the western ...
Dan Knott was born in Collingwood, Ontario, on July 1, 1879, to Hugh Knott and Margaret Wright. [1] He apprenticed as a printer and worked for the Buffalo Express before moving to Alberta in 1905 to join his father and brother, who had come west two years earlier.
This article lists the 25 oldest verified Edmontonians of all time (people from Edmonton, Alberta, all of whom attained the age of at least 105 years). Centenarians have received considerable local recognition in the City of Edmonton due to the Edmonton Aging Symposium , as well as the presence of the Alberta Centre on Aging at the University ...