Alberta is now served by two major transcontinental railways ( CN and CP ), by three major highway connections to the Pacific ( the Trans-Canada via Kicking Horse Pass, the Yellowhead via Yellowhead Pass and the Crowsnest via Crowsnest Pass ), and one to the United States ( Interstate 15 ), as well as two international airports ( Calgary and Edmonton ).

Edmonton, and more so its surrounding region ( Nisku, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan ), is the site of most oil-and-gas related industry including refining and manufacturing.

The World's largest MSW co-composter is the Edmonton Composting Facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which turns 220, 000 tonnes of residential solid waste and 22, 500 dry tonnes of biosolids per year into 80, 000 tonnes of compost.

On 12 September, another daughter, Frances, is recorded to be buried at Edmonton.

For example, Edmonton is YEG or CYEG.

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

It is played openly in major casinos in China ( including Macau ); the United States ( including Las Vegas, Nevada ; Reno, Nevada ; Connecticut ; Atlantic City, New Jersey ; Eastern Pennsylvania ; and cardrooms in California ); Canada ( including Edmonton, Alberta and Calgary, Alberta ); Australia ; and, New Zealand.

Edmonton is neighboured by St. Albert and Sherwood Park among others.

Rutherford is no longer syndicated nationally but continues to air in Calgary, Edmonton, and London.

There is little distinction between " streets " and " avenues " in Victoria as there is in other cities such as Vancouver or Edmonton where " streets " run north-south and " avenues " run east-west, and Victorians are unlikely to use the terms " north ", " south ", " east ", or " west " when giving directions.

* The Hudson's Bay Company trading post Fort Edmonton is constructed ; the city of Edmonton, Alberta, eventually grows from it.

The largest branch is currently in Edmonton.

McFarlane, who is a former minority owner of the Edmonton Oilers, designed the logo used on the team's alternate third jersey, which debuted in 2001.

The waste is transported by road to the Edmonton Solid Waste Incineration Plant or to landfill sites in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.

The Edmonton Composting Facility, the largest of its type in the world, is also the largest stainless steel building in North America.

The University of Alberta Hospital is the centre of a larger complex of hospitals and clinics located adjacent to the university campus which comprises the Stollery Children's Hospital, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Cross Cancer Institute, Zeidler Gastrointestinal Health Centre, Ledcor Clinical Training Centre, and Edmonton Clinic, which is currently under construction.

Edmonton has become one of Canada's major educational centres, with more than 60, 000 full time postsecondary students spread over several institutions and campuses ( total enrollment among the schools is over 170, 000, which includes students enrolled in multiple institutions ).

The Edmonton Examiner is a city-wide community based paper also published weekly.

Edmonton is home to 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group ( 1 CMBG ), the Regular Force army brigade group of Land Force Western Area of the Canadian Army.

Despite being far from Canada's coasts, Edmonton is also the home of HMCS Nonsuch, a naval reserve division.

Its county seat is Edmonton.

Edmonton also has a large army reserve element from 41 Canadian Brigade Group ( 41 CBG ), including The Loyal Edmonton Regiment ( 4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ); 41 Combat Engineer Regiment ; HQ Battery, 20th Field Artillery Regiment ; and B Squadron of The South Alberta Light Horse, one of Alberta's oldest army reserve units.

The Hunger March in Edmonton, December 1932As farms failed, many young people migrated from farms to Alberta's cities, where the situation was scarcely better.

In 1910, however, Liberal MLA Alwyn Bramley-Moore ( who was a staunch provincial rights advocate and who many years later would be called " Alberta's first separatist " by the Edmonton Journal ) moved a resolution calling on the Sifton government to " take such steps as may be deemed necessary to acquire the control of all such natural resources as are of purely local concern ".

His name was attached to many institutions both during his life and after: Rutherford Elementary School in Edmonton was established in 1911 and the University of Alberta's Rutherford Library in 1951.

Alberta's first Legislature, Edmonton, 1906

However, Alberta's last Pacific Coast League baseball team, the Edmonton Trappers, left the province ( and Canada ) after the 2004 season.

It is located in Yellowhead County, northeast of Jasper and about west of Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of Yellowhead and Bighorn Highway, in the Athabasca River valley.

Founded in 1906, it is located on Highway 16A approximately east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city.

In October 2008, Agrium was named one of Alberta's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal.

The idea for Alberta's official tartan began in 1961 at the Edmonton Rehabilitation Society, a charitable organization set up to teach useful skills to the disabled.

Castrol is the name sponsor of Edmonton, Alberta's Castrol Raceway, a multi-track oval, drag, and motocross racing facility.

In 2001 to 2008, 248 Scona students were ranked as AP Scholars ; 66 of Alberta's 139 AP National Scholars were Scona Lords ; and all 10 Edmonton Public Schools AP Award winners were from Strathcona.

In Alberta's Capital city, Edmonton, there are nine Commissioners including two city councilors and seven city appointed members.

He was a driving force behind the creation of the Heritage Room at the Edmonton Courthouse, a collection of artifacts and photographs of Alberta's legal history, including portraits of prominent Alberta judges and many of his own writings.

Once elected, he was Calgary's primary supporter in the legislature's debate over Alberta's capital city, claiming that it was the new province's economic centre, that Alberta's status as a province was the result of a political movement that had begun in Calgary, and that it would be cheaper to build a legislature there than in Edmonton, site of the interim capital.

Later that month, Suncor was also named one of Alberta's Top Employers, which was announced by the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal.

Together Oliver and Rutherford made sure that Edmonton became Alberta's capital.

In October 2008, Intuit Canada was named one of Alberta's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal.

As the professional orchestra of Alberta's creative capital city, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presents over 85 concerts a year of symphonic music in all genres, from classical to country.

Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Edmonton Bulletin.

The Tigers also faced the Edmonton Eskimos and Dominions who served as representatives of Alberta's capital.