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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.
Grande Prairie is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has existed twice, first from 1930 to 1993 and again from 2019. It is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta .
The County of Grande Prairie No. 1 is a municipal district in northwestern Alberta, Canada in Census Division No. 19. It is bounded on the south by the Wapiti River, ...
In September 2019, the western leg of the Grande Prairie bypass as completed and opened to traffic in September 2019. [16] In December 2018, then-premier Rachel Notley announced a new, full interchange at Highway 43X (Grande Prairie bypass) and Highway 43 (100 Avenue); however, the interchange is still several years into the future. [17]
Grande Prairie—Mackenzie is a federal electoral district in northwestern Alberta, created in 2012 from the Peace River district. [3] It contains the western half of Alberta's Peace region , including the city of Grande Prairie (where more than half its residents live) and stretching to the border with the Northwest Territories .
Grande Prairie "Swan City" — after Grande Prairie received it's municipal charter in 1958, it was declared the "Home of the Trumpeter Swan." [30] Lloydminster "Border City" [31] or "Canada's Border City" — in reference to the city being divided by the Alberta/Saskatchewan border [32] "Heavy Oil Capital of Canada" [32] "Lloyd" [33 ...
Pages in category "Grande Prairie" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Grande Prairie Airport (IATA: YQU, ICAO: CYQU) is a commercial airport located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west northwest of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.It is the largest airport in the Peace River Country of northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia, having served 446,000 passengers in 2014 and 436,000 in 2015, [4] ranking among the busiest regional airports in Canada.