Hardisty

Hardisty, Alberta is a town in Flagstaff County in Alberta, Canada. It is located in east-central Alberta, 111 kilometres (69 mi) from the Saskatchewan border, near the crossroads of Highway 13 and Highway 881, in the Battle River Valley. Hardisty is mainly known as a pivotal petroleum industry hub where petroleum products such as Western Canada Select blended crude oil and Hardisty heavy oil are produced and traded.

History

The Town of Hardisty was named after Senator Richard Hardisty. It began in 1906 as a hamlet, and officially became a town in 1911.

The first people we know of to live in the Battle River Valley were the native First Nations. This country was the wintering grounds for thousands of buffalo, moose, elk and deer, which attracted these people to the area.

The Town of Hardisty owes its existence to the Canadian Pacific Railway. About 1904 the surveyors began to survey the railroad from the east and decided to locate a divisional point at Hardisty because of the good water supply from the river.

Fulton Place, Edmonton

Fulton Place is a residential neighbourhood in south east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is named for the creek which runs along the neighbourhood's west boundary. The area is also sometimes known as Hardisty.

The neighbourhood is bounded on the north by 106 Avenue, on the south by 101 Avenue, on the east by 50 Street, and on the west and south west by Fulton Creek Ravine. At the north west corner of the neighbourhood is an interchange between 106 Avenue and Wayne Gretzky Drive. Travel north along Wayne Gretzky Drive gives residents good access to Edmonton Northlands, Rexall Place and other destinations north of the North Saskatchewan River. Travel along 98 Avenue, located just to the south of the neighbourhood, provides access to the downtown core.

Demographics

In the City of Edmonton's 2014 municipal census, Fulton Place had a population of 7003216100000000000♠2,161 living in 7002990000000000000♠990 dwellings, a -0.37% change from its 2012 population of 7003224400000000000♠2,244. With a land area of 0.98 km² (0.38 sq mi), it had a population density of 7003220510000000000♠2,205.1 people/km² in 2014.