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Like the Edmonton Capital Region page, this page listing Edmonton's neighbourhoods has also been long-awaited. Right now, it's not totally perfect and there's probably some things I haven't added but should, and I've deliberately left out industrial parks so this lists only residential neighbourhoods. But feel free to edit this page as long as it's relevant enough. NorthernFire 00:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
If we know how a neighbourhood got it's name, should be link to the person or place it is named after? For example Wilfrid Laurier for Laurier Heights, or Derry, Northern Ireland for Londonderry? Kevlar67 08:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
66.48.175.239 16:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I've done this with a couple of articles I've done some work on actual neighborhood artices: McCauley and Mayfield for example.
66.48.175.239 16:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I like both of the above suggestions but perhaps a further step should be undertaken. Specifically, minor areas should be grouped under major neighbourhoods as has been done thus fas with Millwoods and Castledowns. I also suggest using the pattern I started with Castledowns and The Pallisades where the minor neighbourhoods are listed by date of establishment not alphabetical order. -- SinisterLemon 01:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC) Hallå im malin whats your name, your big freak
Bold textItalic textIm the best girl in sweden ;) and i think you know it too.
66.48.175.239 16:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I've done a bit of cleanup within the North West Edmonton Area. A lot of the neighborhoods that were listed under The Pallisades fall outside the area described in the article as The Pallisades. I've moved them into a new section I've called Other North West Edmonton. Most of them are neighborhoods south of 137 Avenue. There are a few in The Pallisades section I wasn't sure about, so I just left them under the Pallisades. But these neighborhoods should all be checked.
66.48.175.239 16:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I moved Argyll from the list of south central Edmonton to south east Edmonton because it is oyut of place in south central. It is further south than both Ritchie and King Edward Park, both listed in south east Edmonton. It is just east of Hazeldean, also listed as a south east Edmonton neighborhood. Hence, it makes more sense to list it with the other south east Edmonton neibhborhoods. 199.213.199.33 22:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I've separated the neighborhoods which, based on information I had available, would have been part of the Town of Jasper Place prior to annexation by the City of Edmonton into their own category. This is similar to the treatment of Mill Woods neighborhoods, which are in their own category separate from other south east Edmonton neighborhoods.
66.48.175.211 04:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I've added some text to generally describe the larger parts of the city, "northeast Edmonton", "southeast Edmonto", et al. I've used generally straight forward boundaries like Gateway Boulevard. I've place the north boundary of West Edmonton along 111 Avenue, largely so we aren't splitting residential Jasper Place across north west Edmonton and West Edmonton. In doing so, I've had to move a couple of neighborhoods from one area of town to another area of town. 199.213.199.33 18:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone added a section on tent cities and the housing boomb of the early 21st century. I moved it to a spot closer to the end of the article as it doesn,t (IMHO) fit as a higher organization level item interrupting the lower organization level lists of neighbourhoods in different parts of the city. I also did a bit of rewriting to improve the flow.
I love what this person has added.
That said, there have been other times during Edmonton's historical development where a significant proportions of the city's population was housed in tent cities. This was particularly true during the early 1900s. It's an important theme in the history of Edmonton as the city has adapted to growth and change.
So I think it would be a good idea for someone to take this material, expand it to cover a history of tent cities in Edmonton, and move it into its own article.
Johntwrl 03:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
This article is not very useful without maps showing the location of these neighbourhoods. Any chance of that happening? Miken32 17:22, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Somebody has started doing this in the actual neigbhgourhood descriptions.
He has a long wat to go as there are around 250 neighbourhoods in Edmonton.
For an example of his approach, visit the article for Hollick-Kenyou.
66.48.175.18 ( talk) 02:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Dickinsfield is not an official neighbourhood of Edmonton, whereas Evansdale and Northmount are. [1] Is there any reference that verifies Dickinsfield is the sum of Evansdale and Northmount? If so, then Dickinsfield may be a larger community consisting of two or more official neighbourhoods (like Millbourne is to Lee Ridge, Michaels Park, Richfield and Tweddle Place). If it is more than Evansdale and Northmount, what other neighbourhoods are included?
As Evansdale and Northmount are separate neighbourhoods, they warrant their own articles like all other Edmonton neighbourhoods, and they should be split off from Dickinsfield, Edmonton (as Evansdale, Edmonton and Northmount, Edmonton). I will post an invite at Talk:Dickinsfield, Edmonton to invite watchers of that article to provide comments here. Hwy43 ( talk) 04:25, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
A relative of mine who's a longtime Edmonton resident said at one time there were neighbourhoods in the valley flats of the North Saskatchewan River that were expropriated and torn down due to repeated river flooding. 1.) If this is true, what were their names? 2.) Could there be a section entitled "Former neighbourhoods" to list them? Thanks. – Jwkozak91 ( talk) 00:22, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
As for others, I believe there were some small-scale ones. My 1958 map of Edmonton sheds some clues on possible locations, but is silent on whether the subdivisions were ever actually developed and is also silent on names. If we can find reliable sources confirming more, other than Walterdale, perhaps a "Former neighbourhoods" section is warranted. In the meantime, I'll embed Walterdate under the "Old Strathcona and area" section as it was the first to develop in what became Strathcona, Alberta, but will qualify that it is a former neighbourhood. Hwy43 ( talk) 07:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
This article appears to have broken the city into large arbitrary geographic sectors (west, southwest, etc.) based on original research from its beginning, being carried forward to the present (with some fluctuation), rather than being based on reliable sources. I recently found a reliable source (see page 12 of 31 specifically) that breaks the city into seven geographic sectors: northwest, north, northeast, west, southwest, southeast and mature area (includes downtown and inner city).
If there are no objections, I intend to revamp this article to reflect this geographic sector breakdown, which would be an improvement over its present unreferenced, OR-based breakdown. I'll likely do so in a manner similar to the table I recently added to List of neighbourhoods in Calgary with some demographic information, while further reflecting larger residential areas (i.e. Mill Woods) and maybe communities (i.e. Lakewood) where applicable. Once done, I will update the related Template:Edmonton neighbourhoods and so on. Hwy43 ( talk) 05:38, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
One consequence of the recent revamp of this article is that it is now much too large at 173 kb. The list section itself is 132 kb. Any thoughts on creating a second
List of neighbourhoods in Edmonton by sector and area article to which everything but the list is transferred? It would reduce the size of this article and eliminate internal redundancy within. Also, the editing performance at
List of neighbourhoods in Edmonton by sector and area would be significantly better (at 41 kb). I've been deterred at resolving the tags I placed within this article as it takes a painfully long time to load each edit.
Hwy43 (
talk)
22:58, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
I've got to agree with Murdocke, I think the rank column implies some sort of official rank. This is why we have sortable tables, so that readers can sort the table in a way they would like. 117Avenue ( talk) 20:11, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
On another item, are the equals signs intended to signify ties? If so, it is not obvious. What about adding " (tie)" instead? Hwy43 ( talk) 04:02, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Before I filled out my Edmonton census I read through the FAQ page. There it says "areas of the City with a population between 1 and 49 are always reported as zero." So I figured this page would need a note like summer villages on List of municipalities in Alberta. But the 2012 data here lists five neighbourhoods with a population between 1 and 49. Is the area they are referring to on the FAQ smaller than a neighbourhood, or does this only apply to residential neighbourhoods? Is this also a concern on the Calgary list? 117Avenue ( talk) 06:08, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Calgary handles these differently. IIRC, instead of suppressing the numbers, the City assigns them to residual areas where the geographic locations of these populations are unknown. Hwy43 ( talk) 13:56, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
I have never heard of this geographic breakdown. I have never heard of the city's central area referred to as the "Mature sector" or the Henday as being in the "Transportation and Utility Corridor". I looked at the 2015 source map (p43) and the 2017 updated map, and if you read the preceding and following pages for context, subsectors are not based on geography, but sectors are based on economic/residential growth. When I google "Edmonton Mature sector", I see this terminology is used by nobody outside of city planning or copy/paste of this wikipedia article. In regard to being "official", I'm pretty sure we don't have a Office of Neighborhood Services like they do for Boston neighborhoods, so these city planning "subsectors" are no more "official" than AHS's "Edmonton subregions". While using city planning subsectors has the advantage of not needing updates (as the city growth radiates outwards, so the subsectors remain constant), I think there are more useful and relevant ways of organizing neighbourhoods that are just as "official". Here are a few that I think are more relevant:
Goose ( talk) 20:27, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Health and real estate shouldn't be options for a next generation reorg. Best candidates are political (ward-based) and geographical, but only if a reputable reliably sourced geographical system is found that doesn't split neighbourhoods, which would create confusion consequences to the average reader. The educational-based approach truly is a different political approach. It is lesser known and therefore less useful as you mention.
If you are local, you may be aware that there is a proposed overhaul of ward boundaries before city council right now for approval. The overhaul was necessary after significant disproportionate growth during an extended high-growth period coupled with the recent major annexation to the south. The recommended new ward boundaries respect neighbourhood boundaries (and will likely be named in addition or as opposed to the traditional numbering system), as do a new set of "planning district" boundaries in the City's proposed new municipal development plan (MDP) that is also before city council for approval in the near future. I suggest any major reorg be paused until both the new wards (named, numbered or both) and the new MDP are approved. We can then compare, and determine which one is best option to proceed with. My money is on the new wards (which should last for at least 10 years) with planning districts simply being a column in the table. Cheers, Hwy43 ( talk) 05:59, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Hwy43 On 4 August 2014 you edited the article to say "Strathcona Junction (formerly CPR West)". Some official-looking documents that I've seen don't say that Strathcona Junction is a neighbourhood, but rather an area in an area redevelopment plan which happens to include CPR West. But CPR West is also not a neighbourhood nowadays, rather it is a mere development control area and is inside CPR Irvine.
There is confusion, as I can see in "Naming Edmonton" which says CPR Irvine is "63 Avenue north to Whyte Avenue, 99 Street west to CP railway tracks ... At the beginning of the 1900s this land was owned by Nancy Irvine and called the Irvine Estate. In 1906 she sold part of her land to Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and a station was built there in 1908. It was also here that the terminus of the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway was located. In 1912 the neighbourhood was still known as Irvine Estate. In 1997 the south side Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railway yards east of Gateway Boulevard were amalgamated into one neighbourhood, CPR Irvine." ... which is contradictory -- it is not "west to CP railway tracks" any more, because post-amalgamation it has to be west to Gateway Boulevard. But only partially, since Ritchie neighbourhood extends west of 99 Street, and some of the west boundary is not quite at Gateway Boulevard.
For example, go to edmonton.ca neighbourhood maps page and select location 8101 Gateway Boulevard -- you'll see this address, which is east of Gateway Boulevard, is in CPR Irvine. (Confirm by using the same page to search for neighbourhood = CPR Irvine.)
I am wondering whether CPR Irvine merits its own page, but not volunteering, since the small amount of information that I've found is confusing. Peter Gulutzan ( talk) 21:31, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
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Like the Edmonton Capital Region page, this page listing Edmonton's neighbourhoods has also been long-awaited. Right now, it's not totally perfect and there's probably some things I haven't added but should, and I've deliberately left out industrial parks so this lists only residential neighbourhoods. But feel free to edit this page as long as it's relevant enough. NorthernFire 00:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
If we know how a neighbourhood got it's name, should be link to the person or place it is named after? For example Wilfrid Laurier for Laurier Heights, or Derry, Northern Ireland for Londonderry? Kevlar67 08:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
66.48.175.239 16:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I've done this with a couple of articles I've done some work on actual neighborhood artices: McCauley and Mayfield for example.
66.48.175.239 16:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I like both of the above suggestions but perhaps a further step should be undertaken. Specifically, minor areas should be grouped under major neighbourhoods as has been done thus fas with Millwoods and Castledowns. I also suggest using the pattern I started with Castledowns and The Pallisades where the minor neighbourhoods are listed by date of establishment not alphabetical order. -- SinisterLemon 01:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC) Hallå im malin whats your name, your big freak
Bold textItalic textIm the best girl in sweden ;) and i think you know it too.
66.48.175.239 16:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I've done a bit of cleanup within the North West Edmonton Area. A lot of the neighborhoods that were listed under The Pallisades fall outside the area described in the article as The Pallisades. I've moved them into a new section I've called Other North West Edmonton. Most of them are neighborhoods south of 137 Avenue. There are a few in The Pallisades section I wasn't sure about, so I just left them under the Pallisades. But these neighborhoods should all be checked.
66.48.175.239 16:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I moved Argyll from the list of south central Edmonton to south east Edmonton because it is oyut of place in south central. It is further south than both Ritchie and King Edward Park, both listed in south east Edmonton. It is just east of Hazeldean, also listed as a south east Edmonton neighborhood. Hence, it makes more sense to list it with the other south east Edmonton neibhborhoods. 199.213.199.33 22:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I've separated the neighborhoods which, based on information I had available, would have been part of the Town of Jasper Place prior to annexation by the City of Edmonton into their own category. This is similar to the treatment of Mill Woods neighborhoods, which are in their own category separate from other south east Edmonton neighborhoods.
66.48.175.211 04:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I've added some text to generally describe the larger parts of the city, "northeast Edmonton", "southeast Edmonto", et al. I've used generally straight forward boundaries like Gateway Boulevard. I've place the north boundary of West Edmonton along 111 Avenue, largely so we aren't splitting residential Jasper Place across north west Edmonton and West Edmonton. In doing so, I've had to move a couple of neighborhoods from one area of town to another area of town. 199.213.199.33 18:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone added a section on tent cities and the housing boomb of the early 21st century. I moved it to a spot closer to the end of the article as it doesn,t (IMHO) fit as a higher organization level item interrupting the lower organization level lists of neighbourhoods in different parts of the city. I also did a bit of rewriting to improve the flow.
I love what this person has added.
That said, there have been other times during Edmonton's historical development where a significant proportions of the city's population was housed in tent cities. This was particularly true during the early 1900s. It's an important theme in the history of Edmonton as the city has adapted to growth and change.
So I think it would be a good idea for someone to take this material, expand it to cover a history of tent cities in Edmonton, and move it into its own article.
Johntwrl 03:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
This article is not very useful without maps showing the location of these neighbourhoods. Any chance of that happening? Miken32 17:22, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Somebody has started doing this in the actual neigbhgourhood descriptions.
He has a long wat to go as there are around 250 neighbourhoods in Edmonton.
For an example of his approach, visit the article for Hollick-Kenyou.
66.48.175.18 ( talk) 02:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Dickinsfield is not an official neighbourhood of Edmonton, whereas Evansdale and Northmount are. [1] Is there any reference that verifies Dickinsfield is the sum of Evansdale and Northmount? If so, then Dickinsfield may be a larger community consisting of two or more official neighbourhoods (like Millbourne is to Lee Ridge, Michaels Park, Richfield and Tweddle Place). If it is more than Evansdale and Northmount, what other neighbourhoods are included?
As Evansdale and Northmount are separate neighbourhoods, they warrant their own articles like all other Edmonton neighbourhoods, and they should be split off from Dickinsfield, Edmonton (as Evansdale, Edmonton and Northmount, Edmonton). I will post an invite at Talk:Dickinsfield, Edmonton to invite watchers of that article to provide comments here. Hwy43 ( talk) 04:25, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
A relative of mine who's a longtime Edmonton resident said at one time there were neighbourhoods in the valley flats of the North Saskatchewan River that were expropriated and torn down due to repeated river flooding. 1.) If this is true, what were their names? 2.) Could there be a section entitled "Former neighbourhoods" to list them? Thanks. – Jwkozak91 ( talk) 00:22, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
As for others, I believe there were some small-scale ones. My 1958 map of Edmonton sheds some clues on possible locations, but is silent on whether the subdivisions were ever actually developed and is also silent on names. If we can find reliable sources confirming more, other than Walterdale, perhaps a "Former neighbourhoods" section is warranted. In the meantime, I'll embed Walterdate under the "Old Strathcona and area" section as it was the first to develop in what became Strathcona, Alberta, but will qualify that it is a former neighbourhood. Hwy43 ( talk) 07:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
This article appears to have broken the city into large arbitrary geographic sectors (west, southwest, etc.) based on original research from its beginning, being carried forward to the present (with some fluctuation), rather than being based on reliable sources. I recently found a reliable source (see page 12 of 31 specifically) that breaks the city into seven geographic sectors: northwest, north, northeast, west, southwest, southeast and mature area (includes downtown and inner city).
If there are no objections, I intend to revamp this article to reflect this geographic sector breakdown, which would be an improvement over its present unreferenced, OR-based breakdown. I'll likely do so in a manner similar to the table I recently added to List of neighbourhoods in Calgary with some demographic information, while further reflecting larger residential areas (i.e. Mill Woods) and maybe communities (i.e. Lakewood) where applicable. Once done, I will update the related Template:Edmonton neighbourhoods and so on. Hwy43 ( talk) 05:38, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
One consequence of the recent revamp of this article is that it is now much too large at 173 kb. The list section itself is 132 kb. Any thoughts on creating a second
List of neighbourhoods in Edmonton by sector and area article to which everything but the list is transferred? It would reduce the size of this article and eliminate internal redundancy within. Also, the editing performance at
List of neighbourhoods in Edmonton by sector and area would be significantly better (at 41 kb). I've been deterred at resolving the tags I placed within this article as it takes a painfully long time to load each edit.
Hwy43 (
talk)
22:58, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
I've got to agree with Murdocke, I think the rank column implies some sort of official rank. This is why we have sortable tables, so that readers can sort the table in a way they would like. 117Avenue ( talk) 20:11, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
On another item, are the equals signs intended to signify ties? If so, it is not obvious. What about adding " (tie)" instead? Hwy43 ( talk) 04:02, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Before I filled out my Edmonton census I read through the FAQ page. There it says "areas of the City with a population between 1 and 49 are always reported as zero." So I figured this page would need a note like summer villages on List of municipalities in Alberta. But the 2012 data here lists five neighbourhoods with a population between 1 and 49. Is the area they are referring to on the FAQ smaller than a neighbourhood, or does this only apply to residential neighbourhoods? Is this also a concern on the Calgary list? 117Avenue ( talk) 06:08, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Calgary handles these differently. IIRC, instead of suppressing the numbers, the City assigns them to residual areas where the geographic locations of these populations are unknown. Hwy43 ( talk) 13:56, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
I have never heard of this geographic breakdown. I have never heard of the city's central area referred to as the "Mature sector" or the Henday as being in the "Transportation and Utility Corridor". I looked at the 2015 source map (p43) and the 2017 updated map, and if you read the preceding and following pages for context, subsectors are not based on geography, but sectors are based on economic/residential growth. When I google "Edmonton Mature sector", I see this terminology is used by nobody outside of city planning or copy/paste of this wikipedia article. In regard to being "official", I'm pretty sure we don't have a Office of Neighborhood Services like they do for Boston neighborhoods, so these city planning "subsectors" are no more "official" than AHS's "Edmonton subregions". While using city planning subsectors has the advantage of not needing updates (as the city growth radiates outwards, so the subsectors remain constant), I think there are more useful and relevant ways of organizing neighbourhoods that are just as "official". Here are a few that I think are more relevant:
Goose ( talk) 20:27, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Health and real estate shouldn't be options for a next generation reorg. Best candidates are political (ward-based) and geographical, but only if a reputable reliably sourced geographical system is found that doesn't split neighbourhoods, which would create confusion consequences to the average reader. The educational-based approach truly is a different political approach. It is lesser known and therefore less useful as you mention.
If you are local, you may be aware that there is a proposed overhaul of ward boundaries before city council right now for approval. The overhaul was necessary after significant disproportionate growth during an extended high-growth period coupled with the recent major annexation to the south. The recommended new ward boundaries respect neighbourhood boundaries (and will likely be named in addition or as opposed to the traditional numbering system), as do a new set of "planning district" boundaries in the City's proposed new municipal development plan (MDP) that is also before city council for approval in the near future. I suggest any major reorg be paused until both the new wards (named, numbered or both) and the new MDP are approved. We can then compare, and determine which one is best option to proceed with. My money is on the new wards (which should last for at least 10 years) with planning districts simply being a column in the table. Cheers, Hwy43 ( talk) 05:59, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Hwy43 On 4 August 2014 you edited the article to say "Strathcona Junction (formerly CPR West)". Some official-looking documents that I've seen don't say that Strathcona Junction is a neighbourhood, but rather an area in an area redevelopment plan which happens to include CPR West. But CPR West is also not a neighbourhood nowadays, rather it is a mere development control area and is inside CPR Irvine.
There is confusion, as I can see in "Naming Edmonton" which says CPR Irvine is "63 Avenue north to Whyte Avenue, 99 Street west to CP railway tracks ... At the beginning of the 1900s this land was owned by Nancy Irvine and called the Irvine Estate. In 1906 she sold part of her land to Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and a station was built there in 1908. It was also here that the terminus of the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway was located. In 1912 the neighbourhood was still known as Irvine Estate. In 1997 the south side Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railway yards east of Gateway Boulevard were amalgamated into one neighbourhood, CPR Irvine." ... which is contradictory -- it is not "west to CP railway tracks" any more, because post-amalgamation it has to be west to Gateway Boulevard. But only partially, since Ritchie neighbourhood extends west of 99 Street, and some of the west boundary is not quite at Gateway Boulevard.
For example, go to edmonton.ca neighbourhood maps page and select location 8101 Gateway Boulevard -- you'll see this address, which is east of Gateway Boulevard, is in CPR Irvine. (Confirm by using the same page to search for neighbourhood = CPR Irvine.)
I am wondering whether CPR Irvine merits its own page, but not volunteering, since the small amount of information that I've found is confusing. Peter Gulutzan ( talk) 21:31, 25 December 2020 (UTC)