Edmonton, A History

> Title: Edmonton, A History Author: MacGregor, J.G. Publisher: M.G. Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, AB, 1967 ASIN: B0006BXNK2 Condition: Very Good - Book is Excellent, shows former owner's name inside, No Jacket SHIPS FROM ALBERTA Edmonton, the Core of Canada's Energy Empire, is the country's seventh largest metropolitan area. Bisected by the twenty-two mile long park of its magnificent river valley, it sits in the midst of the 50,000 square miles of riches that have created it. For 150 miles out from the city, the country side supports an agriculture wealthy in its varied production. Underneath the city, and in the surrounding district, extending down for thousands of feet and encircling it for a radius of scores of miles, lies a fabulous store of petroleum wealth. Edmonton's history is that of fur traders venturing far into a wilderness, of sturdy pioneers of a rather Puritan persuasion wresting a living from rich though heavily forested soils, the intermingling of European settlers, as well as the city's free enterprise approach to success. Enhanced with many maps and illustrations, the book is a history which the motto of arms envisaged "Industry, Integrity, Progress".