Name and Namesakes
Alberta Highway 2 is now the main route from Edmonton to Calgary. Most of it bears the name "Queen Elizabeth II Highway," but some sections are named in honour of the old trail, as are other roads leading in the same direction.
Heading south from Edmonton, the trail was called "Calgary Trail". Calgary Trail now refers to the southbound portion of Highway 2 within the boundaries of the city of Edmonton.
Heading north from Calgary, the trail bore the name "Edmonton Trail". That name now refers to a north-south feeder road in Calgary approximately 1 km west of the current Highway 2 and approximately 0.25 km east of Centre Street North. A segment of the old trail through the city of Airdrie is also called Edmonton Trail.
Read more about this topic: Calgary And Edmonton Trail
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“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)