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Did You Know? Fact Sheet - City of

GENERAL INFORMATION • Edmonton is the closest • Edmonton is ’s capital city major city by rail to the Port and ’s fifth largest city. of Prince Rupert Container • Edmonton is the northernmost city in Terminal, North America’s North America with a population of fastest growing seaport over 1 million. and the closest North American container port to • Edmonton is one of Canada’s East Asia. sunniest cities, with an average 2,299 hours of sunshine per year. • Edmonton is a major hub along the Ports to Plains • Edmonton has the highest per capita corridor, which connects area of parkland of any Edmonton’s famed river valley. the Port of Prince Rupert city. through the and • Edmonton’s river valley forms the the midwestern US to the Texas Gulf centred in Edmonton. longest stretch of connected urban Coast. • The Edmonton region is home to parkland in North America. • Edmonton provides immediate access three oil refineries, which together • Edmonton is among Canada’s fastest to the major road arteries such as produce 22% of the country’s growing cities, with a population that the CANAMEX corridor and Alaska petroleum products. grew by 7.39% between 2012 and highways, and is the nexus of the • Edmonton is the hub of the Alberta 2014. highway system. Industrial Heartland (AIH), which is • Edmonton is one of the youngest of • Edmonton home to 15 world-scale hydrocarbon Canada’s major cities, with 40% of its is Canada’s fastest growing major processing facilities which contribute population between the ages of 20 airport over the past 10 years, with 43% of the nation’s basic chemical and 44 (5% more than the national non-stop connections to around 60 manufacturing. average). destinations across North America, • The Business Park, located to • Nearly 20% of Edmonton residents the Caribbean and Europe. the south of Edmonton (adjacent to are foreign-born. • Edmonton is served by Canada’s Edmonton International Airport), is • Edmonton is home to Canada’s two Class-1 rail services, Canadian the largest energy-focused industrial second-largest and currently National (CN) and Canadian park in Canada and the second- fastest growing urban Aboriginal Pacific (CP). largest in North America. population. • Edmonton inaugurated a Waste-to- ENERGY SECTOR Biofuels Production Facility in 2012 ECONOMIC PROFILE • Edmonton is the closest major urban through a partnership between • Edmonton was ranked #1 among centre to the Athabasca , the and the City of Edmonton. North American cities for ‘Best world’s third-largest oil resource with • Edmonton is the main intersection Economic Potential’ by the Financial 13% of global total reserves. point for the Alberta Hub, an Times’ FDI Magazine in 2007. • 97% of Alberta’s oil is located within extensive pipeline system more than • Edmonton’s real GDP growth rate the Edmonton service area between 373,000 kilometres in total length, in 2012 was 5.1%, the highest Red Deer and the Alberta-NWT which ships most feedstocks, natural rate among Canada’s ten largest border. gas and hydrocarbon products. metropolitan centres. • The oil sands are expected to • Edmonton has the lowest generate 12 million person-years OTHER INDUSTRIES unemployment rate among Canada’s of employment and $2.2 trillion in • The PCL Group of Companies, six largest cities, standing at 4.4% as economic activity across Canada Canada’s largest general contracting of April 2013. over the next 25 years — much of it organization and the sixth largest in • Edmonton has the lowest property taxes of any major Canadian city.

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the US, is headquartered in Edmonton. agricultural • Edmonton has a strong technology sector, and is home to production, value- the main headquarters of and BioWare, as well as added processing, offices for IBM, , , Canada, food safety and General Electric and Startup Edmonton. human health – the first of its kind • Edmonton is the birthplace of numerous major retail in North America. and restaurant chains, including , Katz Group, • Edmonton’s One of the new themed baggage AutoCanada, , , Planet Organic, Empire carousel in EIA’s new Canada Arrivals Hall. Design, Running Room, , Earl’s, Northern Alberta and XS Cargo. (NAIT) more apprentices than any other post-secondary school in Canada. EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND SUSTAINABILITY • Edmonton-based pharmaceutical firm CV Technologies • Alberta’s public and Catholic school systems are ranked (now owned by Afexa Life Sciences Inc.) developed the among the highest in the world. Alberta’s 15-year-olds revolutionary cold/flu suppressant Cold-fX ®. ranked second in reading and fourth in science worldwide. • Edmonton is home to North America’s largest composting • Edmonton is home to ten post-secondary institutions, facility. The city aims to divert more than 90% of the city’s including Edmonton-based campuses for Athabasca household waste from landfills by the end of 2013. University and the University of . • The , which is situated in Edmonton, ARTS, CULTURE AND TOURISM is consistently ranked among the top five universities in • Park, an open-air museum that celebrates Canada and the top 100 worldwide. The U of A attracts the region’s pioneer history, is Canada’s largest living history museum. • Edmonton’s theatre district, located in the historic neighbourhood, houses one of Canada’s most vibrant performing arts scenes. • The Edmonton International Fringe is the largest fringe theatre festival in North America and second largest in the world after the Fringe. • The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is among North America’s most successful classical music ensembles, whose players are the highest paid orchestral musicians in . • is the largest in North America and was the world’s largest until 2004. • The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is one of North America’s Edmonton skyline as seen from Gallagher park during the Folk Festival. most popular folk music . • Edmonton is home to several renowned sports franchises, $500 million a year in funded research, the second highest including the 13-time -winning Edmonton Eskimos level in Canada. of the League and the five-time Stanley • Edmonton is home to the University of Alberta Hospital, Cup-winning Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey one of Canada’s leading teaching hospitals, and is a world League. leader in research into diabetes, viruses, heart transplants and rehabilitation. • The Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science (AFNS) at the University of Alberta is an interdisciplinary research program specializing in sustainable

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