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The Royal Alexandra Hospital opened in 1899 at 97th Street and 103A Avenue as the Edmonton General Hospital. It was designed to hold 25 patients. The costs of opening the hospital were funded by the Women's Auxiliary. [13] In 1912, a new "modern" facility was opened on the northside of 111 Avenue between 101 and 103 Street.
CFB Edmonton. 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Edmonton, [6] formerly known as and commonly referred to as CFB Edmonton [1] is a Canadian Forces base located in Sturgeon County adjacent to the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. It is also known as Edmonton Garrison[1] or "Steele Barracks".
Standard is known in Alberta for the tragic abduction and murder of one of its residents, 15-year-old Kelly Cook, in 1981. [5] [6] The Grade 10 student regularly babysat for townsfolk, and on the morning of April 22, 1981, she received a phone call from a man who identified himself as Bill Christensen. He asked her to babysit for him that ...
Lorne Warneke opened the first gender identity clinic in Canada at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in 1996, where he served as medical director until retiring in 2017. [6] [7] Warneke was a major advocate for transgender rights and played an important role in getting Alberta Health Services to cover gender reassignment surgery in 1984, and again in 2010.
Foothills Medical Centre. Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) is the largest hospital in the province of Alberta and is located in the city of Calgary. It is one of Canada's most recognized medical facilities and one of the leading research and teaching hospitals. Foothills Medical Centre provides advanced healthcare services to over two million ...
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Edmonton, the capital city of the province of Alberta in Canada. Edmonton has twenty-four buildings taller than 100 metres (330 ft). The tallest is the Stantec Tower , the tallest Canadian building outside Toronto , which surpassed the previous record holder, JW Marriott Edmonton Ice District ...
McDougall was one of the founders of St. John Ambulance in Alberta. John A. McDougall School is named in his honour. McDougall & Secord, Limited exists in Edmonton to this day, believed to be the oldest surviving company in Alberta. Its precursors—McDougall's General Store and Secord's Fur Store and Warehouse—are reproduced on 1885 Street ...
The Stollery Children's Hospital is a 218 bed [ 1] children's hospital that opened in October 2001. [ 2] It is a "hospital within a hospital," [ 3] being situated within the University of Alberta Hospital and co-located with Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute in the Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [ 4]