History
The electoral district was originally created in 1966 from Edmonton East and Edmonton West ridings.
It was abolished in 1976 with parts of it being transferred to Edmonton North, Edmonton East and Edmonton West ridings.
In was re-created in 2003 from Edmonton West, Edmonton Southwest and a small part of Edmonton Centre-East.
In geographic terms, Edmonton Centre is bound by the North Saskatchewan River to the south, 97th Street to the east, 111th Avenue to the north, and by 124th Street (south of Stony Plain Road) and 121st Street (north of Stony Plain Road) to the west.
Read more about this topic: Edmonton Centre
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
“[Men say:] “Don’t you know that we are your natural protectors?” But what is a woman afraid of on a lonely road after dark? The bears and wolves are all gone; there is nothing to be afraid of now but our natural protectors.”
—Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)