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
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“The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
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