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It also has one of only three BOMARC missiles in Canada. [citation needed] Fort Edmonton Park is Canada's largest living museum by area. The Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre [258] is home to the Loyal Edmonton Regiment Military Museum. The museum is dedicated to preserving the military heritage and the sacrifices made by the people of ...
Highway 21 is a north–south highway in Alberta, Canada that parallels Highway 2 between Calgary and Edmonton. [1] It is approximately 328 kilometres (204 mi) in length. [ 2 ] It begins at the Trans-Canada Highway ( Highway 1 ) east of Strathmore , and ends at Fort Saskatchewan where it is succeeded by Highway 15 . [ 3 ]
Because Jasper Avenue, and historic downtown Edmonton, was constructed to follow the North Saskatchewan River, 101 Street is the farthest east street that runs true south–north. 97 Street is an alternate artery that travels north out of downtown, at a slight angle west. 97 and 101 Streets meet one block apart from each other at 111 Avenue ...
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The completion of the highway provided the south Peace Region of northwest Alberta, particularly Grande Prairie and Valleyview, with a more direct and significantly shorter route to Edmonton. It also slightly shortened the driving distance from Peace River to Edmonton once the Highway 34 realignment north of Valleyview was completed by 1959. An ...
In 2004, MapQuest, uLocate, Research in Motion and Nextel launched MapQuest Find Me, a buddy-finder service that worked on GPS-enabled mobile phones. MapQuest Find Me let users automatically find their location, access maps and directions and locate nearby points of interest, including airports, hotels, restaurants, banks and ATMs.
Much of Highway 2 is a core route in the National Highway System of Canada: between Fort Macleod and Edmonton and between Donnelly and Grimshaw. The speed limit along most parts of the highway between Fort Macleod and Morinville is 110 km/h (68 mph), and in urban areas, such as through Claresholm, Nanton, Calgary and Edmonton, it ranges from 50 km/h (31 mph) to 110 km/h (68 mph).
Jasper Avenue is a major public transit route as several of Edmonton's busiest bus routes travel along it. The LRT travels underneath Jasper Avenue between 99 and 110 Streets. It is named after Jasper Hawes, manager of a North West Company trading post of Jasper House in the early 1800s, located in present-day Jasper National Park .