In 1795, the Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Edmonton, a trading post where the Cree and the Blackfoot brought their much-coveted furs for barter. Over the course of some 200 years, Edmonton has evolved from this desolate outpost into a proud provincial capital. Thanks to the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1800s, the building of the Alaska Highway in the 1940s, and the discovery, also in the...
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Edmonton NeighborhoodsThe oldest area of the city, Downtown Edmonton includes the Arts District, home to the internationally renowned Citadel Theatre, the Commercial Centre, and the Government Centre more neighborhoods History
Boomtown. Perhaps no other term suits Edmonton so well. Although no stranger to hardship, over the course of 200-some years, the city has ridden high on the crest of several economic waves. |
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