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Walking Resources The Benefits of Walking Local Contacts WALK Centre for Active Living Walking… a healthy journey! Belgravia Community Queen Alexandra School centre4activeliving.ca Ranked the number one activity of choice among League 7730 106 St NW 780-427-6949 , walking is a prescription for improved 11540 73 Avenue NW, queenalexandra.epsb.ca Walks health and wellness. belgraviaedmonton.ca Windsor Park COMMUNITY WALKING MAP canadawalks.ca Belgravia School Community League Releases the body’s tension and stress. UWalk • 11605 74 Avenue NW 11840 87 Avenue NW UWALK.ca • Refreshes the mind and body, especially when belgravia.epsb.ca 780 439-0902 walking outdoors. windsor-park.ca Garneau Community Windsor Park, • Allows you to connect with your community. Shape League Windsor Park • Offers an excellent way to socialize with family and/ Elementary School (Safe Healthy Active People Everywhere) PO Box 52009 Garneau, Belgravia or friends. Edmonton, AB T6G 2C5 8720 118 Street shapeab.com • Increases “eyes on the street”, enhancing garneaucommunity.org 780 433-3924 windsorpark.epsb.ca Get involved with Walk to School Week and community safety. Garneau School and McKernan Walking School Bus Programs 10925 87 Avenue NW City Arts Centre [email protected] 780 433-1390 10942 83 Avenue 780 442-5311 780-406-8530 garneau.epsb.ca McKernan Community Metro Cinema League 8712 109 Street 11341 78 Avenue NW 780 425-9212 mckernancommunity.org metrocinema.org McKernan School Weather 11330 76 Avenue NW 780-468-4940 780-435-4163 City Information mckernan.epsb.ca Dog off-leash area in Belgravia Call 311 Our Lady of Mount Walking with your Dog Carmel School Emergency 117 Street in Windsor Park Edmonton has over 40 locations where you can 10524 76 Avenue NW Contacts enjoy your walk while your dog is off-leash. Please Police/Ambulance/Fire remember that all sites where dogs are permitted 10450 72 Avenue 911 to be off-leash are multi-use areas used by all. Your strathcona.epsb.ca dog must be leashed when not in a designated Police Complaint Line off-leash area. The dog icons show on this map are Old Scona 780-423-4567 placed in the approximate location of each off-leash 10523 84 Avenue area, but do not show the precise boundaries. For oldscona.epsb.ca more information, including details on off-leash boundaries, check the Parks for Paws Brochure or go to edmonton.ca (keyword off-leash) There are 1,440 minutes in a day, schedule 30 of them for walking! Printed 2019

Windsor Park, Garneau, Belgravia and McKernan About Community Walking Maps This Community Walking Map is part of a series of Enjoy walking the tree-lined streets of Garneau, Windsor Garneau, or The Garneau as it was once known, is one of walking guides. Each map is created as a joint project Park, Belgravia and McKernan, four of Edmonton’s most the oldest neighbourhoods in Edmonton, and has roots of unique communities. Situated on the banks of the North deep historical significance to the , the of Walk Edmonton and local Community groups. River valley and close to the University of City of Edmonton, and the Province of Alberta. Numerous Visit the City of Edmonton website to see all the Alberta North Campus, these neighbourhoods provide prominent citizens have lived here in the decades since the Community Walking Maps. much for residents to do and explore. Amenities such as the area was created in 1912. Its historic homes are surrounded University Hospital, Jubilee Auditorium, by trendy cafes, shops and apartments. [email protected] and Hub Mall are accessible by foot. Three LRT stations 780-944-5339 Belgravia is a community just south of the University serve the communities, and , Whyte Avenue and University Avenue. It is characterized by a large and downtown are within easy reach on foot or by bicycle. urban forest of elm trees along the streets and primarily Windsor Park was a subdivision that was created in 1911, residential houses. It is bordered on the west side by the just prior to the amalgamation between Edmonton and North valley, an area that provides Strathcona, during the land booms in the early part of many great walking opportunities. From Belgravia you can the 20th century. Most of the development occurred in walk to Heritage Days in the summer and ski all the way McKernan is located directly south of the University Garneau, Windsor Park, Belgravia and the 1950s. It features larger estate homes and new infill to the Kinsmen Field House in the winter. Right below the campus and offers older, renovated and new infill homes McKernan four vibrant communities that put on tree-lined streets with excellent transport connections. development along with open green spaces. Large parks community, on its south west side, is the Whitemud Equine you in the centre of Edmonton and are perfect such as and are nearby and Centre. A dog off-leash area wraps around the south and It was named for James McKernan, a prominent easily accessible on foot. west sides of the community. Belgravia is a community businessman and citizen of Edmonton’s early rival, the City for those choosing an active lifestyle in a with many original residents as well as lots of new families. of Strathcona. McKernan became part of Edmonton through vibrant area. Explore the many walking routes in this area, including the amalgamation in 1912, but development of the area was BB Gun Hill Route, which was named by the local children delayed until McKernan Lake was drained during the 1940s. who lived along in the early 1950s. The hill was so fast, it was like a BB gun.

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