Edmonton travel guide

Top 10 sights in Edmonton

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   Art Gallery of Alberta

   The provincial art gallery of Alberta, in an 8,000-square-metre building of 2010 at Churchill Square whose steel ribbon wraps the facade. It holds about six thousand works with an emphasis on Alberta and Canadian art, and traces its collection to 1924.

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   Al-Rashid Mosque

   The first mosque built in Canada, put up in 1938 by Lebanese immigrants in Edmonton with money raised door to door, largely from non-Muslim neighbours. It was moved to Fort Edmonton Park in 1992 to save it from demolition.

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   St. Josaphat Cathedral

   A Ukrainian Catholic cathedral of 1947 in McCauley, with seven copper domes, and one of the best examples of Byzantine-rite architecture in Canada. Its interior was painted by Julian Bucmaniuk over eight years; Edmonton has one of the largest Ukrainian communities outside Ukraine.

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   Muttart Conservatory

   A conservatory in the North Saskatchewan valley opposite downtown, of four glass pyramids built in 1976 — tropical, temperate, arid and a fourth for changing shows. The pyramids are the recognised silhouette of the river valley.

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   St. Joseph's Basilica, Edmonton

   The Catholic cathedral of Edmonton, completed in 1963 and the largest church in Alberta. The crypt below holds the graves of the missionaries who worked the prairie in the nineteenth century.

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   Mindbender

   A Schwarzkopf triple-loop coaster that opened at Galaxyland inside West Edmonton Mall on 20 December 1985, indoors and among the tallest of its kind. Three riders died in 1986 when a car derailed; it ran on until 2023 and was dismantled.

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   Fort Edmonton

   The Hudson's Bay Company post established in 1795 on the North Saskatchewan, rebuilt on four different sites, and the fur trade centre of the northwest. The last fort stood where the Alberta legislature is now; the company operated it until 1914.

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   Royal Alberta Museum

   Alberta's provincial museum of human and natural history, opened in 1967 and moved downtown in 2018 into the largest museum building in western Canada. Its Indigenous galleries were developed with the province's First Nations, and a bug room keeps live insects.

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   Edmonton Alberta Temple

   A Latter-day Saints temple in Edmonton, dedicated in December 1999, the second in Alberta after Cardston. It has a single spire, and only members in good standing enter beyond the lobby.

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    Galaxyland

    An indoor amusement park in West Edmonton Mall, opened in 1985 as Fantasyland, with about two dozen rides under the roof. Its size is a function of the mall's — for years the largest shopping centre in the world.

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   World Waterpark

   An indoor water park in West Edmonton Mall, opened in 1986, whose wave pool covers about five acres — the largest indoor wave pool in the world. The air is held at thirty-one degrees year round, which in Edmonton in January is the whole point.

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   Fort Edmonton Park

   A living history park opened in 1974 on the North Saskatchewan, presenting four eras — the 1795 fur trade fort, 1885, 1905 and 1920 streets — with costumed interpreters. A steam train and streetcar run between the periods.

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   Telus World of Science

   A science centre of 1984 run by the Edmonton Space and Science Foundation, with an IMAX dome, a planetarium and a public observatory. It succeeded the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium of 1960, the first in Canada.

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   Bonnie Doon

   A residential neighbourhood in south-central Edmonton named after a Scottish place in a Burns poem, annexed in 1913. The Mill Creek Ravine park forms its western edge and gives it a trail into the river valley.

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   Chinatown and Little Italy

   A business revitalisation zone north of downtown covering the city's Chinatown and Little Italy, two adjoining immigrant districts. Italian grocers on 95th Street and Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants on 97th trade along the same few blocks.

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   Churchill Square

   The main downtown square, named after Winston Churchill, ringed by the city hall, the art gallery, the library and the Citadel Theatre. It hosts the street performers festival, the Fringe spillover and the Heritage Festival, and floods as a skating rink in winter.

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   Galaxy Orbiter

   A spinning roller coaster at Galaxyland in West Edmonton Mall, whose cars rotate freely on their axis as they run, so no two rides are the same. It is indoors, like everything else in the park.

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   William Hawrelak Park

   Three hundred and fifty acres in the river valley, proposed by Mayor William Hawrelak in 1954 on land the city had taken for unpaid taxes in 1922. The artificial lake was dug between 1959 and 1964, the park opened on 1 July 1967 as Mayfair Park, and it was renamed for Hawrelak in 1982.

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   Alberta Avenue

   A pre-war neighbourhood northeast of downtown, originally called Norwood, built along 118 Avenue. Successive immigrant communities — Ukrainian, Italian, and more recently Vietnamese and Somali — have left their shops along the avenue.

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    Abbottsfield

    A neighbourhood in east Edmonton overlooking the North Saskatchewan valley, developed in the 1960s and named after an early landowning family. It has a high proportion of public and co-operative housing.

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