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6 unusual facts about Strathcona


Edmonton municipal election, 1892

In 1891, the Canadian Pacific Railway's main line, which had passed well south of Edmonton, was extended northward into Strathcona, then known as South Edmonton.

Additionally, in a February 13 editorial the Bulletin reminded the new council that the major purpose of incorporation had been to either construct a railroad bridge across the North Saskatchewan River or, in the event that Canadian Pacific Railway was not amenable to the idea, construct a traffic bridge to lead to the train station in South Edmonton.

Gentrification of Vancouver

Working-class neighborhoods were established in surrounding areas like Kitsilano, Strathcona and Grandview–Woodland.

Strathcona-Sherwood Park

The current incumbent is Dave Quest who was first elected as MLA for Strathcona in 2008.

Strathcona, Alberta

On May 29, 1899, Strathcona was incorporated as a town named after Lord Strathcona, Donald A. Smith.

This mixed community of British (especially Orkney), Québécois, Cree and Metis fur trade employees, pioneer farmers, hunters, and their families, was mostly replaced by eastern Canadian pioneer farmers (and land speculators) in the 1880s.


Al Zariwny

He defeated single-term incumbent New Democrat MLA Barrie Chivers in a hotly contested seven-way race to win the Edmonton-Strathcona seat for the Liberals.

Brian Mason

In the provincial election of 2008 Mason again retained his seat, and was joined in caucus by newly elected NDP MLA Rachel Notley from Edmonton-Strathcona, the seat previously held by Pannu.

Buttle

Buttle Lake, a lake on Vancouver Island in Strathcona Regional District, British Columbia, Canada

Comox-Strathcona Regional District

The Vancouver Island part of the Comox Strathcona Regional District stretches all the way across the island from east to west, and north to south between Sayward and the Denman and Hornby Islands on its east coast, and between Nootka Island and the Brooks Peninsula on its west coast, including most of Strathcona Provincial Park.

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

There are oil portraits of Lord Strathcona by many artists, but the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury seems to have made a number of head and shoulder portraits of him from 1898 (examples may be found at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad offices, and in the Hudson's Bay Company this has a repainted background), and the artist also presented his 1899 bust-length charcoal and crayon drawing of Strathcona to McGill University in Montreal in 1916.

Lord Strathcona is commemorated in Manitoba by the Rural Municipality of Strathcona and by three streets in Winnipeg: Donald Street and Smith Street in the downtown core, and Strathcona Street in the city's West End.

Edmonton railway station

Strathcona Canadian Pacific Railway Station, opened 1907 in Strathcona, Alberta; later annexed by Edmonton

Elkhorn Mountain

For many years there was speculation about whether or not Elkhorn, earlier known as Strathcona's Matterhorn, might be the highest mountain on the island.

Maury Shapka

Shapka ran as a candidate in the Edmonton—Strathcona finishing sixth winning 292 votes but finishing well behind winner Hugh Hanrahan.

Ronald L. Meek

In 1946 Meek moved to Cambridge, England with a Strathcona studentship to read for a Ph.D. under Piero Sraffa and Maurice Dobb.

Rutherford House

"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherford", Douglas R. Babcock, 1989, The University of Calgary Press, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ISBN 0-919813-65-8

Vancouver City Hall

After being elected mayor in 1934, Gerry McGeer appointed a three-man committee to select the location for a new city hall; choices included the former Central School site at Victory Square, and Strathcona Park at the corner of Cambie Street and West 12th Avenue (no relation to the current park in the Strathcona neighbourhood).

Wilbert McIntyre

Born in Rosedale, Ontario, Wilbert was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1906 by-election in the Strathcona electoral district by-election on April 5, 1906.


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