Excerpt from Resources of British North America, Vol. 3: November, 1905 Picture will give AN idea OF the superb situation OF edmonton, the capital OF the new province OF alberta. This thriving city owes its commercial prosperity To the strong strategical position IT occupies As A distributing and manufacturing centre not only for northern alberta but for the great territory stretching away To the arctic circle. IN that vast region the inhabitants sleep IN blankets made IN edmonton OF central alberta wool and eat flour, bacon and butter made AT edmonton. The doors and windows OF the f'ar northern homes are sent from edmonton factories and the cigars smoked UP there are also AN edmonton product. IN fact every package OF merchandise that goes into that great country bears the brand OF some edmonton house. When the great province of'alberta was carved out OF the west IT was not BY accident nor without due consideration that our legislators fixed ON edmonton AS the provisional capital. Edmonton Is 318 miles north OF the international boundary, the southern limit OF the new province, and 446 miles south OF the northern boundary OF alberta. IT IS 210 miles east OF the boundary between alberta and british columbia and 150 miles west OF the eastern boundary OF the province. IT Is, therefore, very near the geographical centre OF what IS destined To BE one OF canada's greatest provinces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.