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Beverly is a former urban municipality within the Edmonton Capital Region of Alberta, Canada. Beverly was incorporated as a village on March 22, 1913 and became the Town of Beverly on July 13, 1914. [3] It later amalgamated with the City of Edmonton on December 30, 1961. [4] [6] The population of Beverly was 8,969 at the time of amalgamation. [7]
The Clover Bar Railway Bridge is just to the north of the original span. This 504-metre-long (1,654 ft) and 42-metre-high (138 ft) bridge was built in 1907–1908 as an iron and concrete truss by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company and is still in use, carrying Canadian National Railway 's main line.
Northern Alberta Railways (reporting mark NAR) was a Canadian railway which served northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia. Jointly owned by both Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway , NAR existed as a separate company from 1929 until 1981.
The Beverly Cenotaph, originally built to remember the men from Beverly who served and died in World War I, is located in Beverly Heights. The original dedication ceremony was held on October 17, 1920, making the cenotaph the first to be erected in the Edmonton area, and one of the earliest in Alberta.
November 10 – Canada – At Carbondale, Alberta, a Northern Alberta Railways passenger train from Dawson Creek to Edmonton collides with a freight train waiting to proceed the other way, and a tank car of diesel fuel explodes. Three people are killed in Carbondale station, which is destroyed in the fire, and one crewman on the freight train.
The Alberta Railway Museum (ARM) is a railway museum located in the north end of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It houses a collection of railway equipment and buildings and has locomotives from both the Canadian National Railways (CNR) and Northern Alberta Railways (NAR).
A different railway line, the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway company, later ran a short line across the Low Level Bridge and across the North Saskatchewan River in 1902, later extended to 124th Street and to downtown Edmonton. In 1907 a second Strathcona Canadian Pacific Railway station became the depot for Strathcona. From 1998 to 2010 ...
The Dunvegan Yards were rail yards in Edmonton, Alberta, named after, and originally owned by, the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway.Located just east of the St. Albert Trail and connected to the Grand Trunk Pacific's transcontinental mainline, the yards were the southern terminus of the ED&BC which began construction in 1912, [1] though the yards were not officially surveyed ...