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Grande Prairie, Alberta

Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor and Alberta Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), approximately 456 northwest of Edmonton. The city is surrounded by the County of Grande Prairie No. 1.

Grande Prairie is the seventh-largest city in Alberta with a population 55,032 recorded by the 2011 Census. It is the largest city between Edmonton and Fairbanks, Alaska.

The city adopted the trumpeter swan as an official symbol due to its proximity to the migration route and summer nesting grounds of this bird. For that reason, Grande Prairie is sometimes nicknamed the "Swan City". The dinosaur has emerged as an unofficial symbol of the city due to paleontology discoveries in the area west of the Grande Prairie.

NOTE: Due to the city's rapid growth, some streets/subdivisions already built may not be visible on the map.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Prairie

Recent city comments:

  • Grande Prairie, Alberta, Monégasque (guest) wrote 9 years ago:
    Grande Prairie is a very wonderful city in Alberta.
  • Indigo Fashion and Silver Jewelry, sara (guest) wrote 10 years ago:
    Pendants were certainly ubiquitous, adorning and accentuating rockabilly clothing fashions. Some common styles included cute cartoon-y pictures http://jewellery-style.blogspot.com//2010/11/world-famous-diamonds.html
  • Grande Prairie, Alberta, Alex (guest) wrote 11 years ago:
    A very clean and beautiful city. Nature is very pristine and the lack of light pollution offers some incredible star watching and aurora borealis viewing opportunities.
  • FutureShop Grande Prairie, Faf (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    This is no longer futureshop, it's a sporting goods store now. Futureshop moved a few blocks to the west, but the map doesn't reflect this yet
  • Ernie's Sports Experts Grande Prairie, olderniesemployee (guest) wrote 16 years ago:
    Ernie's is part of the largest buying group in the country so they purchase incredibly agressive, plus most of their suppliers ship product pre-paid so wether they are in Grande Prairie or Montreal it doesn't make a difference to their prices. Also, if you find something they sell priced for less then will match it. I know 100%, however this doesn't happen often as they are very aware of how most product is priced in larger centers and price accordingly. If you don't believe me, you should go in an ask someone.
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