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Local Gems


Multi-Purpose Metropolitan Skylines

The downtown Edmonton skyline easily doubles as any modern North American city. It offers all kinds of angles for dramatic backdrops.

North Saskatchewan River Valley

The wide North Saskatchewan River Valley divides Edmonton down the middle. It’s the largest urban parkland in North America (22 times the size of NYC’s Central Park). It’s a great green space in the summer, and in winter a white vastness.

Learn more about the River Valley through the stories of people who've experienced it at www.edmontonstories.ca.

Distinctive Buildings

Edmonton’s Alberta Legislature Building is a great, old piece of sandstone splendour. A glass pyramid rises from our modern City Hall. In the river valley are a cluster of glass pyramids. The vacant Charles Camsell Hospital is a ready-made medical set. Choose from many other prominent buildings with a wide variety of characteristics.

Learn more about the Alberta Legislature Building through the stories of people who've experienced it at www.edmontonstories.ca.  

Attractive “Genre” Neighbourhoods

From modern trendy to classic old buildings, Edmonton has the gamut. Funky shops and bars now occupy the 19th century Old Strathcona District’s Whyte Avenue, with lots of picturesque red-brick buildings available. Old Glenora offers tree-lined boulevards and stately houses, some of them turreted. University of Alberta features collegiate buildings in a park-like campus.

Learn more about Whyte Avenue and the University of Alberta through the stories of people who've experienced it at www.edmontonstories.ca.

Rich Cultural Neighbourhoods

Edmonton’s cultural diversity gives you an array of distinctive neighbourhoods, including Little Italy and Chinatown.

Learn more about Little Italy and Chinatown through the stories of people who've experienced it at www.edmontonstories.ca.

The World’s Largest Entertainment and Shopping Centre

West Edmonton Mall, with its 800 shops, plus the world’s largest indoor waterpark and amusement centre, sea lions and penguins, offers unlimited settings.

Impressive Industrial Landscapes

Edmonton’s Refinery Row adds real flare as a backdrop. It’s one of the world’s largest industrial sites, and just one of your choices in the area.

Unique Historical Settings

Fort Edmonton Park and Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village are instant period settings, inside and out. Extras are already costumed.

Learn more about Fort Edmonton Park through the stories of people who've experienced it at www.edmontonstories.ca

People

"Edmontonians are special. They just make up their mind about something and go and get it done. We are a bit renegade. Don’t put a red flag up, we’ll just go after it. It [Edmonton] has everything a big city could have, and so there is a kind of casual sophistication about it". Vi Becker, Vice President of Corporate Resources and Technology for Stantec Inc., excerpted from Paul Gains ‘Pioneering Spirit’, Business Traveler, March 2002