Cheap Flights to Edmonton
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Made famous by Wayne Gretzky and the great Edmonton Oiler teams of the 1980s, Edmonton is also known as The Festival City. It’s the capital of Alberta and is located in the central region of the province. With a population of almost 850,000, it is the second largest city in Alberta after Calgary. It’s a city made rich thanks to oil; the first significant oil discovery was made just South of Edmonton in the town of Leduc in 1947. The oil boom discovery in 1940s and 1950s gave Edmonton the Oil Capital of the World status. Edmonton opened the world’s largest shopping mall in 1981. This is still the largest shopping centre in all of North America and is one of Alberta s biggest tourist attractions containing an indoor water park, an amusement park, skating rink, bar district, a luxury hotel and more than 800 shops and services. Edmonton is also an official sister city of quite a few worldwide cities such as: Heilongjiang (China), Nashville, Tenn., and Wonju, Gangwon (South Korea).
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