Interesting Facts About Edmonton #1
Did you know that:
1. Edmonton sits on 670 square kilometers [264 sq. mi] of land, making it larger in area than Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit and , as well, one of the lowest urban population densities in North America?
2. Edmonton’s population, according to the Apr. 2009 census, now numbers 782,439–an increase of 30,000 over the previous year?
3. Edmonton’s metropolitan area comprises 36 municipalities–the likes of St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, Beaumont, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan with a combined population [2006] of 1.034 million?
4. Edmonton shares the same latitude as Hamburg, Germany and Liverpool, England?
5. Edmonton is known as Canada’s ‘Festival City’ because it promotes more than 30 festivals each year-including The Festival of Trees [Dec], Canadian Birkebeiner [Feb], International Children’s Festival [June], Taste of Edmonton [July],the Rexall Edmonton Indy [July] and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival [Aug]?
6. Edmonton was incorporated as a city in 1904 when the population was 8,350 and became the capital of Alberta when the province joined Confederation on Sept. 1, 1905?
7. Edmonton boasted the first licensed airfield in Canada in 1929 — named Blatchford Field which was used by notable pioneer pilots like ‘Wop’ May and Max ward to distribute mail, food and medicine to Northern Alberta?
8. The North Saskatchewan River, which divides Edmonton into two parts originates in the Columbia IceField in Jasper National Park and ultimately empities into Hudson’s Bay?
9. Edmonton’s River Valley constitutes the longest stretch of connected urban parkland in North America which is 22 times as large as New York’s Central Park?
10. Edmonton was judged to have the ‘best economic potential’ of any North American city by ‘FDi Magazine’ in 2006?
Edmonton, whose motto is ‘Industry, Integrity, Progress’ is a thriving city that one can be proud to call ‘home’!
