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Guided Walk: Rossdale Generating Station area, Saturday July 6, 2 pm

4 Jul

A great opportunity to walk the area around the Rossdale Power Plants and understand the significance of the area in and around the plants.

This guided walking tour meets in front of the Rossdale Community League Building (historic Little Flower School) at 10135-96 Avenue  It will consider the Traditional Burial Ground and Fort Edmonton Cemetery Commemorative Site, which provides a good view of the historic Rossdale Generating Station. The tour will provide information about the significance of the area with a special focus on the Rossdale Generating Station (Maxwell Dewar Building / Low Pressure power plant), which was designated a Provincial Historic Resource in 2001.

Parking is available behind the Community League Building. For more on this, contact information and other events of the Historic Festival, visit www.historicedmonton.ca

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Rossdale Regeneration on CTV Edmonton

4 Jul

Strong turnout at today’s media gathering where Shirley Lowe and Michael Phair of Rossdale Regeneration released the group’s report and recommendations on the future of the Rossdale power plants.  Here’s CTV Edmonton’s piece on this.

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The Birthplace of Edmonton and Alberta

25 Jun
First Nations tents in Rossdale, 1920. Photo courtesy of City of Edmonton Archies, EA-160-165

First Nations tents in Rossdale, 1920. Photo courtesy of City of Edmonton Archies, EA-160-165

Named for pioneer settler Donald Ross, the area known as Rossdale is rich in human history. It was here that Edmonton began life as a fur trading post in 1801, and where Alberta was inaugurated as a province in 1905 by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

In the early days of the 20th century, it was the birthplace of Edmonton Power.

Situated on the broad flat scoured by the North Saskatchewan River and now at the north end of the Walterdale Bridge, it’s easy to see why this was a place First Nations people gathered for thousands of years. The river was the principal transportation corridor in prehistoric and early historic times, and fur trading companies chose the north shore of the river right here for the trading outposts of Fort Edmonton and Edmonton House.

By Lawrence Herzog

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