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The northern two thirds of Alberta, including Edmonton, received area code 780, while leaving 403 to serve Calgary and southern Alberta. The projected exhaust dates for area codes 403 and 780 were March and October 2009, respectively. In 1997, two area codes, 587 and 825, were reserved by Bellcore for Alberta. [1]
André Ouellet (French: [ɑ̃dʁe wɛlɛt]), PC KC (born April 6, 1939) is a former longtime Liberal federal politician and Cabinet member in Canada.Following his political career, he served as chairman of Canada Post.
Commerce Place is an office and retail complex in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The complex's skyscraper stands at 125 m (410 ft) or 27 storeys tall and was completed in 1990. [4] Commerce Place has a small selection of shops in the main levels of the mall [5] and is connected to Edmonton City Centre and Manulife Place by pedway. [6]
The towers are 28 stories high, and rise to 114.3 m (375 ft). [1] Sun Life Plaza - West was the first tower built, and was completed in 1981. Development continued with The Ampersand - North, completed in 1982, and was concluded in 1984 with Sun Life Plaza - East. [3]
It is the hub of downtown Calgary's +15 skywalk system, and as such is the busiest shopping centre in the city by pedestrian count, with around 250,000 visitors passing through each week. [3] The centre's architectural focal point is a vast suspended glass skylight which spans the length of the complex.
Alberta's numbering plan areas and area codes. Area code 403 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of Alberta. The numbering plan area encompasses the southern third of the province, which includes the Calgary area. This numbering plan area is also served by area codes 587, 825, and 368 ...
A local custom involves area teenagers staring at the building's flood lights and then looking up to see everything in the color purple. [13] [14] [15] The band The Rural Alberta Advantage referenced the custom in their song Edmonton. It is also the origin of the name for Purple City Music Festival.
This finally changed when Edmonton became the capital of the new province of Alberta. In 1908, construction began on a new Beaux-Arts/Greek revival courthouse, on what is now the west side of Churchill Square, to the southwest of the current Law Courts where the Edmonton City Centre mall now stands. The building was completed in 1912 and ...