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Canada Place is a glass-and-steel office building in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Currently, it houses the main federal government offices for Edmonton and much of Western Canada.
Located in downtown Edmonton, it was built by the Government of Canada and features a distinctive pink colour and stepped shape, a design intended to resemble the shape of the maple leaf on the Canadian flag.
It neighbors the Edmonton Convention Centre and overlooks the North Saskatchewan River valley.

The CN Tower is an 111-metre-tall (364 ft), 26-storey office building located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The building was built by the Canadian National Railway Company as Edmonton's first skyscraper, and at its completion in 1966 was the tallest building in Western Canada.
The CN Tower would remain Edmonton's and Western Canada's tallest building until 1971 when it was surpassed by Edmonton House.

Downtown Edmonton is the central business district of Edmonton, Alberta.
Located at the geographical centre of the city, the downtown area is bounded by 109 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, 97 Avenue and Rossdale Road to the south, and the North Saskatchewan River to the southeast.

Edmonton Light Rail Transit, commonly referred to as the LRT, is a light rail system in Edmonton, Alberta.
Part of the Edmonton Transit Service (ETS), the system has 29 stations on three lines and 37.4 km (23.2 mi) of track.
As of 2018, it was number seven on the busiest light rail transit systems in North America, with over 113,000 daily weekday riders.

The first inhabitants hunted and gathered in the area that is now Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, around 3,000 BC and perhaps as early as 10,000 BC, when an ice-free corridor opened up as the last ice age ended and timber, water, and wildlife became available in the region.

The following is a list of the north–south arterial thoroughfares in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Numbered streets run north–south with street numbers increasing to the west.
In 1982 a quadrant system was adopted.
Meridian Street, portions which run adjacent to the east leg of Anthony Henday Drive, divide the east and west quadrants.
Edmonton currently has three quadrants: northwest (NW), southwest (SW), and northeast (NE); the vast majority of the city falls within the northwest quadrant.
Addresses on 33 Street and east have been encouraged to include NW to avoid confusion with addresses in the NE quadrant.
The majority of major north–south streets are aligned with road allowances.

This is a list of the tallest buildings in Edmonton, the capital city of the province of Alberta in Canada.

The Rathole, officially the 109 Street subway, was a two-lane tunnel constructed in 1927 on 109 Street in the northwest corner of Downtown, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
It traversed north-south under the former Canadian National (CN) railyards between 104 Avenue and 105 Avenue,.
It was 168 metres in length, 3.3 metres in height, and constructed to accommodate automobile, bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

The Valley Line is a low-floor urban light rail line in Edmonton, Alberta.
The 13.1 km (8.1 mi) line runs southeast from downtown at 102 Street stop to Mill Woods Town Centre at Mill Woods stop, and connecting to the Capital and Metro lines at Churchill station in downtown.
The line is being constructed in phases, with Phase 1 being the current open 12-station portion between 102 Street and Mill Woods that commenced operations on November 4, 2023.
The second phase, consisting of the 14 km (8.7 mi), 16-station portion between 102 Street and Lewis Farms, began construction in 2021 and is expected to be completed in 2028.
Upon completion of the entire line, the Valley Line is expected to serve more than 100,000 commuters daily, nearly matching the current Capital Line and Metro Line in terms of capacity and ridership.

West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is a large shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, that is owned, managed, and operated by Triple Five Group.
It is the second most visited mall in Canada, after the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, followed by Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby, and the 14th largest in the world by gross leasable area.
It is the second largest shopping mall, by square footage, in North America behind the Mall of America.
Mall of America encompasses 520,000 m2 and West Edmonton Mall encompasses 490,000 m2.
By store count, West Edmonton Mall is the highest in the Western Hemisphere as it currently counts over 800 occupants, in comparison to Mall of America's 520 occupants.
The mall was founded by the Ghermezian brothers, who emigrated from Iran in 1959.
The mall's major anchor stores are Hudson's Bay, London Drugs, Marshalls, Simons, The Brick, and Winners/HomeSense.