Located near the centre of Vancouver Island in Strathcona Provincial Park, it is part of a group of peaks that include the only glaciers on the island, the largest of which is the Comox Glacier.

Strathcona is a city in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States.

The Strathcona neighbourhood lies within the DTES and is a historic working-class neighborhood that has avoided many social problems, despite the decline of areas nearby.

The far south of neighbourhood below Mann Avenue is an area known as Strathcona Heights.

The area below the Strathcona Heights escarpment, near the Rideau River, is known as Robinson village.

Della Falls is a waterfall in Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island.

Della Falls is located 60 km ( 37 mi ) from the city of Port Alberni, British Columbia in Strathcona Provincial Park.

The only way to reach Della Falls, other than by helicopter, is by crossing the entire Great Central Lake by boat ; the only road access to the lake is at the opposite side from Strathcona Park.

After the 35km ( 21 mi ) crossing, there is a dock that marks the beginning of Strathcona Park, and a camping area which can be used as a base camp before trying the next 15km ( 9 mi ) ascent to the base of Della Falls.

Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada and of Glencoe in the County of Argyll, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Edmonton — Strathcona is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1953.

Canterbury is the home to many of Victoria's oldest and most prestigious private schools, including Camberwell Grammar School, Camberwell Girls Grammar School and Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School.

Highway 28 is an east-west highway on the northern part of Vancouver Island, within the Strathcona Regional District.

It is the main link to the northern part of Strathcona Provincial Park and the remote logging communities of Gold River and Tahsis, on the northwest coast of the Island.

It is composed from the following previous ridings: 55. 5 % from Edmonton Southwest, 20. 9 % from Edmonton — Strathcona and 23. 6 % from Wetaskiwin.

Centred on Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown and the Downtown Financial and Central Business Districts to the west, the Downtown Eastside to the north, the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast, and the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona to the east.

* Lord Strathcona Elementary School, the oldest public school in Greater Vancouver, is the only public school serving Vancouver's Chinatown.

He is remembered today with the Lord Strathcona Medal, which is awarded to a cadet in each corps and squadron who best exemplifies the qualities of being a cadet.

Strathcona County Transit is exploring different high-capacity bus types to carry more passengers on the high-demand commuter routes, which are between Strathcona County and Edmonton ; an articulated bus is also being evaluated as an alternative.

They have also developed a following for their brand of Canadian rock, with singles such as " Up the Hill ", " Frozen Puck to the Head ", " This Is Not a Sad Song ", " Another Drinking Song ", and " The Bastard of Strathcona County ".

In the end, the city of Edmonton became the capital and the then-separate city of Strathcona on the south bank of the river, where Premier Alexander Rutherford lived, was granted the university, much to the chagrin of Calgary for many years to come.

Edmonton, on the north bank of the Saskatchewan River, and Strathcona, on the south bank of the river, developed separately-economically, politically, and socially-because travel and communication across the river were limited.

Strathcona Park looking southeast toward the river

He was President of the Bank of Montreal and is remembered as one of the greatest philanthropists of his time: He built a new wing at the Montreal General Hospital, donated generously to various hospitals in Scotland and gave over £ 1. 3 million to the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund in London, working closely with George V. He and his first cousin, Lord Strathcona, purchased the land and then each gave $ 1 million to the City of Montreal to construct and maintain the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Well preserved Pliocene peats containing abundant vertebrate and plant macrofossils characteristic of a boreal forest have been reported from Strathcona Fiord.

He was educated at the Strathcona School for Boys, Earl Grey School, Rideau Park School, and the Central Collegiate Institute, all in Calgary.

For example, the urban service areas of Fort McMurray and Sherwood Park, of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Strathcona County respectively, would be the fifth and sixth largest cities in Alberta if they were incorporated.

While Premier, Alexander Rutherford, always a stalwart ally of the University of Alberta, approved a plan to locate Alberta's first agricultural college on the university's campus, in Rutherford's home town of Strathcona.

Getty agreed to run in Strathcona West, and defeated incumbent Social Crediter Randolph McKinnon by more than one thousand votes.

Calgarians ' bruised feelings were not salved when the government located the University of Alberta, a project dear to the Premier's heart, in his hometown of Strathcona, just across the North Saskatchewan River from Edmonton.

Several Strathcona residents urged Rutherford to run for Oliver's old seat in the ensuing by-election.

Rutherford was at last successful in the 1902 election, when he ran in the newly created riding of Strathcona.

His legislative efforts included successful attempts to extend the boundaries of the Town of Strathcona and to empower it to borrow for construction of public works.

In 1900, he was elected president of the Strathcona Liberal association, and was a delegate to the convention that nominated Oliver as the party's candidate in Alberta for the 1900 federal election.

When the new federal constituency of Strathcona was formed in advance of the 1904 election, Rutherford was urged to accept the Liberal nomination, but demurred.

When the outcome was clear, the people of Strathcona feted Rutherford with a torchlight procession and bonfire.

Calgary felt that, having lost the fight to be provincial capital, it could expect the university to be established there, and was not pleased a year later when the government announced the founding of the University of Alberta in Rutherford's hometown of Strathcona.

In the 1913 election, Rutherford was again nominated as the Liberal candidate in Edmonton South ( Strathcona had been amalgamated into Edmonton in 1912 ), despite pledging opposition to the Sifton government and offering to campaign around the province for the Conservatives if they agreed not to run a candidate against him.

Before the 1911 federal election, several local Liberals opposed to Frank Oliver had asked Rutherford to run against him in Strathcona.

Rutherford divided his time between the original Strathcona office and the Edmonton office he opened in 1910 ; his practice focussed on contracts, real estate, wills and estates, and incorporations.

It includes part of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and some of Strathcona Provincial Park.

On September 23, 1908, 45 students attended classes in English, mathematics and modern languages, on the top floor of the Queen Alexandra Elementary School in Strathcona.

In 1912, the two cities of Edmonton and Strathcona were amalgamated under the name of the former.

On December 4, 2007, a CN train derailed near Edmonton in Strathcona County, Alberta, at 3: 30 a. m Mountain Standard Time.

Always a soldier, in 1900 Steele leapt at the offer of Canadian Pacific Railway tycoon Lord Strathcona to be the first commanding officer of Strathcona's privately-raised cavalry unit, Strathcona's Horse.