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High Level Bridge (Edmonton)
The High Level Bridge is a bridge that spans the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. History Located next to the Alberta Legislature Building, the bridge linked the communities of Edmonton and Strathcona, Alberta, Strathcona, which became one city in 1912. It was designed from the outset to accommodate rail, streetcar, two-way automobile, and pedestrian traffic. The original bridge design included three tracks on the upper deck: The middle track was for CPR trains, and the two outer tracks were for streetcars. The bridge was built by John Gunn and Sons of Winnipeg, who previously built other bridges for Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). More than 500 workers were employed on the project at its peak, and four men died during the bridge's construction. Fifty steel workers went on strike in October 1912, demanding a 50-cent wage for nine hours of work, instead of 45 cents for ten hours of work. The bridge's upper deck was completed in May 1913. The first CPR tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
109 Street, Edmonton
109 Street is an arterial road in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It takes travelers out of Downtown to the south to Old Strathcona, and to the north to the Kingsway area. It passes several Edmonton landmarks including the Garneau Theatre, Alberta Legislature Building, MacEwan University, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP "K" Division Headquarters, and Kingsway Mall. It is a one-way street, southbound, from 97 Avenue, Edmonton, 97 Avenue to Saskatchewan Drive (88 Avenue), to cross the North Saskatchewan River on the narrow High Level Bridge (Edmonton), High Level Bridge. Before Edmonton's amalgamation with Strathcona, Alberta, Strathcona in 1912, the Edmonton portion was known as 9th Street while the Strathcona portion was known as 5th Street W. 109 Street between Whyte Avenue and Kingsway (Edmonton), Kingsway is part of the original alignment of Alberta Highway 2, Highway 2 through Edmonton, the designation was moved to Whitemud Drive in the 1980s. Neighbourhoods Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper Avenue
Jasper Avenue is an arterial road in central Edmonton, Alberta, and is the city's main street. Jasper Avenue has no official street number but is aligned with 101 Avenue with the majority of its length. Jasper Avenue is a major public transit route as several of Edmonton's busiest bus routes travel along it. The Edmonton LRT, LRT travels underneath Jasper Avenue between 99 and 110 Streets. It is named after Jasper Hawes, manager of a North West Company trading post of Jasper House in the early 1800s, located in present-day Jasper National Park. Route description Jasper Avenue begins at 125 Street in the community of Westmount, Edmonton, Westmount as a local residential street. One block to the east, 124 Street, Edmonton, 124 Street turns east and becomes Jasper Avenue, which functions as its unofficial western terminus, with 102 Avenue, Edmonton, 102 Avenue taking over as the main east–west artery to west Edmonton. Jasper Avenue passes the community of Wîh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CKUA
CKUA Radio is a Canadian donor-funded community radio station based in Edmonton, Alberta. Originally located on the campus of the University of Alberta in Edmonton (hence the UA of the call letters), it was the first public broadcaster in Canada when it began broadcasting in 1927. It now broadcasts from studios in downtown Edmonton, and as of fall 2016 has added a studio in Calgary's National Music Centre. CKUA's primary station is CKUA-FM, located on 94.9 FM broadcasting, FM in Edmonton, and the station operates fifteen Broadcast relay station, rebroadcasters to serve the remainder of the province. As of February 28, 2021, CKUA is the 13th-most-listened-to radio station in the Edmonton market according to a PPM data report released by Numeris. History CKUA was founded on November 21, 1927"Mercy - Arden col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) is a Canadian orchestra based in Edmonton, Alberta. As the professional orchestra of Alberta's creative capital city it presents over 85 concerts a year of symphonic music in all genres, from classical to country. Currently in its 72nd season, the orchestra is composed of 56 core professional musicians who perform 42 weeks per season and who play an active role in the musical life of Edmonton and elsewhere as performers, teachers and recording artists. The ESO also performs as the orchestra for Edmonton Opera and Alberta Ballet productions, and its recordings are regularly heard across Canada on CBC Radio 2. History The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra was initially formed as Edmonton's community orchestra and performed its first concert on November 15, 1920. The orchestra suspended operations in 1932 due to lack of funds, but was revived on October 31, 1952, when it was incorporated as a registered not-for-profit organization (the Edmonton S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LED Lights
An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps are significantly more energy-efficient than equivalent incandescent lamps and fluorescent lamps. The most efficient commercially available LED lamps have efficiencies exceeding 200 lumens per watt (lm/W) and convert more than half the input power into light. Commercial LED lamps have a lifespan several times longer than both incandescent and fluorescent lamps. LED lamps require an electronic LED circuit to operate from mains power lines, and losses from this circuit means that the efficiency of the lamp is lower than the efficiency of the LED chips it uses. The driver circuit may require special features to be compatible with lamp dimmers intended for use on incandescent lamps. Generally the current waveform contains some amount of distortion, depending on the luminaires' technology. The LED lamp market is projected to grow from US$75.8 billion in 2020 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton LRT
Edmonton Light Rail Transit, commonly referred to as the LRT, is a light rail system in Edmonton, Alberta. Part of the Edmonton Transit Service (ETS), the system has 29 stations on three lines and of track. Much of the system has a dedicated right-of-way, while in the downtown area, vehicles run underground. As of 2018, it was number seven on a list of the List of North American light rail systems by ridership, busiest light rail transit systems in North America, with over 113,000 daily weekday riders. The ETS started operation of the original LRT line in 1978, expanded by 2010 into the Capital Line, running between Clareview, Edmonton, Clareview in Edmonton's northeast and Century Park, Edmonton, Century Park in Edmonton's south end. The first phase of the newer Metro Line started service between the University of Alberta campus and hospital in Edmonton's south-central and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology northwest of downtown Edmonton in 2015, with further expansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton Journal
The ''Edmonton Journal'' is a daily newspaper published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of the Postmedia Network. History The ''Journal'' was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old ''Edmonton Bulletin''. Within a week, the ''Journal'' took over another newspaper, ''The Edmonton Post'', and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative Party of Canada (historical), Conservative Party against the ''Bulletins stance for the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party. In 1912, the ''Journal'' was sold to the William Southam, Southam family. It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International. The ''Journal'' was subsequently sold to Canwest in 2000, and finally came under its current ownership, Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicide By Jumping
Jumping from a dangerous location, such as from a high window, balcony, or roof, or from a cliff, dam, or bridge, is a common suicide method. The 2023 ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for jumping from a high place is X80*, and this method of suicide is also known clinically as autokabalesis. Many countries have noted suicide bridges such as the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Other well known suicide sites for jumping include the Eiffel Tower and Niagara Falls. Nonfatal attempts in these situations can have severe consequences including paralysis, organ damage, broken bones and lifelong pain. People have survived falls from buildings as high as 47 floors (500-feet/152.4 metres). Most think that jumping will lead to an instant death. However, in many cases, death is not instant. Jumping is the most common method of suicide in Hong Kong, accounting for 52.1% of all reported suicide cases in 2006 and similar rates for the years before that. The Centre for Suici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Anderson (artist)
Trevor Anderson is a Canadian filmmaker and musician. His films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Filmography Anderson has written and directed numerous award-winning short films. * ''Rugburn'' (2005) screened at dozens of international film festivals, including the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the Nashville Film Festival. * '' Rock Pockets'' (2007) won the inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, presented annually to an emerging Canadian filmmaker working with "passion, humanity, a strong sense of social justice, and a sense of humor." It won Honourable Mention for Most Innovative Short Film at the 2007 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. The film is shown in Vancouver high schools by the Out in Schools initiative to address LGBTQ issues, homophobia, and bullying in the classroom. * '' DINX'' (2008) was made thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The High Level Bridge
''The High Level Bridge'' is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Trevor Anderson and released in 2010.Liz Nicholls, "With lowly camera, a High Level feat". ''Edmonton Journal'', September 11, 2010. The film centres on the High Level Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, blending historical facts about the bridge with a memorial tribute to residents of the city who had committed suicide by jumping off of it. The film influenced the city to launch a safety study on the bridge, culminating in the construction of suicide barriers along the bridge in 2015. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2010 AFI Fest, where it received an honorable mention from the short film jury, and at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival."Local film heads to Sundance; Short tells bridge's 'complex' story". ''Edmonton Journal The ''Edmonton Journal'' is a daily newspaper published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of the Postmedia Netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trolley Buses In Edmonton
The Edmonton trolley bus system formed part of the public transport network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 1939 and 2009. Operated by Edmonton Transit System (ETS), the system had, at its peak, a fleet of 137Bramley, Rod (July–August 2009). "Edmonton Council Votes to Close System". ''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 286, pp. 74–82. National Trolleybus Association (UK). . trolley buses, and a total route length of . History Trolley bus service in Edmonton started on September 24, 1939, operating on route 5 from 101 St/Jasper Ave to 95 St/111 Ave. By the end of October of that year, service had started on another route running to 99 St/Whyte Ave via the Low Level Bridge. In Edmonton, trolley buses were often referred to simply as "trolleys". The trolley bus system used a mixture of Ohio Brass and K&M Elastic (Swiss) suspension for holding up the Overhead lines, overhead wires. The 49 vehicles remaining in use in 2008 were from an order of 100 manufactured in 1981–82 by Brown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across approximately of track. In the late 20th century, CN gained extensive capacity in the United States by taking over such railroads as the Illinois Central. CN is a public company with 24,671 employees and, , a market cap of approximately US$75 billion. CN was government-owned, as a Canadian Crown corporation, from its founding in 1919 until being privatized in 1995. , Bill Gates was the largest single shareholder of CN stock, owning a 14.2% interest through Cascade Investment and his own Gates Foundation. From 1919 to 1978, the railway was known as "Canadian National Railways" (CNR). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
