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Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada

Edmonton-Whitemud

Edmonton-Whitemud is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

The place

Edmonton-Whitemud is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. In 1989, its constituents unseated the Premier of the day, Donald Getty, by voting for Liberal candidate Percy Wickman.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Edmonton-Whitemud

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Al-Rashid Mosque

    The Al-Rashid Mosque was the first mosque built in Canada. It was constructed in 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta, and relocated to its current site in Fort Edmonton Park, in 1992.

    3.4 km · mosque in Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Edmonton Alberta Temple

    The Edmonton Alberta Temple is the 67th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the second in the province of Alberta, following the one in Cardston. Located in Edmonton, the temple serves about 15,700 members in the area.

    2.6 km · Mormon temple in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Terwillegar Park Footbridge

    The Terwillegar Park Footbridge is a pedestrian bridge that crosses the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. At 262 metres in length, it is the longest stressed ribbon bridge in Canada and second longest in the world after the David Kreitzer Lake Hodges Bicycle Pedestrian Bridge in Escondido, California, United States.

    3.9 km · pedestrian bridge in Edmonton, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Foote Field

    Foote Field is a multi-purpose sports facility on the University of Alberta South Campus in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, built as a legacy facility for the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. It was named for University of Alberta alumnus, former varsity track athlete, and philanthropist Eldon Foote, who donated $2 million toward the construction costs.

    3.4 km · stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    North Saskatchewan River valley parks system

    The North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, also known as the Ribbon of Green or the River Valley Parks, is a continuous collection of urban parks around the North Saskatchewan River valley in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. The park system encompasses over 7,300 hectares of parkland, making it the largest contiguous area of urban parkland in the country.

    2.8 km · urban park network in Edmonton, Alberta · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Edmonton Radial Railway Society

    The Edmonton Radial Railway Society restores and operates historic streetcars in Fort Edmonton Park and across the High Level Bridge. It is named after the Edmonton Radial Railway, which began service in 1908 and later became Edmonton Transit Service.

    3.8 km · Heritage streetcar operator in Edmonton, Alberta · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Quesnell Bridge

    The Quesnell Bridge is a girder bridge that spans the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of Edmonton's southern freeway, Whitemud Drive.

    4 km · bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Southgate Centre

    Southgate Centre is a shopping centre in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, covering just under 80,000 square metres of retail space. It contains 159 retailers including Sporting Life, Winners, Uniqlo, Apple Store, London Drugs, H&M, Dollarama and Edmonton's only Restoration Hardware and Crate & Barrel.

    2.2 km · shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Edmonton-Whitemud

Airports
Edmonton (YEG), 18 km · Calgary (YYC), 264 km
Stations
Century Park station, 2.5 km · Southgate station, 2 km · South Campus/Fort Edmonton Park station, 3.3 km
  • Calgary → Edmonton-Whitemud
    270 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · C$36–48
  • Saskatoon → Edmonton-Whitemud
    485 km · quickest by air, 4h 23m · C$150–230
  • Kelowna → Edmonton-Whitemud
    570 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · C$170–260
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Edmonton-Whitemud

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Edmonton-Whitemud. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe city has a funicular system to access the river valley.
  • Get aroundAlthough somewhat slower than just taking the steps by the side of it, you can take two elevators (one a funicular style) from next to the Fairmont hotel downtown to adjacent to the low-level bridge.

From Wikivoyage: Edmonton/Central, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    825 km
  2. 02
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    858 km
  3. 03865 km
  4. 04
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    866 km
  5. 05
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    879 km

If you know how people move in Edmonton-Whitemud – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Edmonton-Whitemud

Edmonton-Whitemud is 10 km from Edmonton, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.