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Edmonton Travel Guide >>
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If you can, arrive in Edmonton at night. As you ride in
from the airport, you'll see Edmonton's glittering
steel-and-glass skyline rising on the far shore of the
North Saskatchewan River. It's a dramatic introduction
to the way oil money transformed this stretch of the
north.
Founded by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1794, Edmonton
today is Canada's most northerly big city, a provincial
capital and an industrial center with an economy based
on petrochemicals, biotechnology, engineering, forestry
and agricultural goods.
Ideally situated between Canada's remote north and the
picturesque Jasper National Park, Edmonton is gaining
popularity as a sightseeing and tourist destination.
Edmonton is Canada's sixth-largest city, with an
educated and innovative workforce that fuels Canada's
billion-dollar economy in the wealthiest and only
debt-free province. The University of Alberta and the
state-of-the-art National Institute for Nanotechnology
in Edmonton are setting standards in education and
research, establishing Edmonton as the biotech capital
of Alberta.
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