Edmonton: The Capital of Canada's Bold West

Edmonton is the largest northerly metropolis in North America and the capital of Alberta -- Canada's most affluent province.

Along with having one of Canada's most acclaimed education and health care systems, Edmonton is also renowned for its arts, professional sports and unsurpassed quality of life just 250 miles east of the Rocky Mountains on the historic North Saskatchewan River.

Edmonton is fortuitously located between Alberta’s fabled oilsands in northern Alberta (the world’s largest source of hydrocarbons) and the United States (the world’s largest consumer of energy). Edmonton has one of Canada’s most diversified regional economies and has been one of Canada’s top-two growth regions, on average, since 1996.

Major projects in Edmonton’s service area were valued at an astounding CDN$97.8 billion in July 2006 -- one of the highest levels of economic activity anywhere on the planet.

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