Bonnie Doon is a neighbourhood in south-central
Edmonton
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,
Alberta
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, Canada. The well-known Mill Creek Ravine Park forms its west boundary. The Bonnie Doon shopping mall is on its east boundary.
Bonnie Doon was gradually settled from the 1870s onwards. The western part of Bonnie Doon became a part of the
City of Strathcona
Strathcona was a city in Alberta, Canada on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. Originally founded in 1891, it amalgamated with the City of Edmonton in 1912.
History
Strathcona's recorded history began in the 1870s. Its first r ...
in 1907 and became a part of Edmonton when Strathcona and Edmonton merged in
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
. The rest of the neighbourhood was annexed by Edmonton the following year.
"Bonnie Doon" is a phrase in a
Robbie Burns
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poem, and refers to the
River Doon
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in Scotland. In 1910, Ontario-born
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford (February 2, 1857 – June 11, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Canada West, he studied and practiced law in Ottawa before h ...
who was of Scottish descent put the name on land he owned east of
Mill Creek. Later the name spread to what is now the entire neighbourhood of Bonnie Doon.
It is the heart of Edmonton's
Franco-Albertan
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community and hosts the only
francophone
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university west of
Manitoba
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, the
University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean, which is located north of Whyte Avenue on Rue
Marie-Anne Gaboury
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(91 Street) and the only Francophone high school west of Winnipeg, École Maurice-Lavallée.
The neighbourhood is also home to one of Edmonton's earliest shopping malls,
Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre
Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Edmonton, Alberta, at the intersection of Whyte Avenue and 83 Street in the Bonnie Doon neighbourhood. It has over 60 shops and services including Dollarama, Shoppers Drug Mart, Stitches Factory ...
.
The neighbourhood extends from Connors Road in the north to
Whyte (82) Avenue in the south, and from
Mill Creek Ravine
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in the west to 83 Street in the east.
There are two schools in the neighbourhood: Rutherford Elementary School and
École Maurice-Lavallée
École Maurice-Lavallée is a high school in the Bonnie Doon neighbourhood of south-central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It provides Catholic francophone education to Grade 10-12 students.
School history
École Maurice-Lavallée is the first publ ...
.
Surrounding neighbourhoods include:
Strathearn
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to the north,
Idylwylde and
Holyrood to the east, and
King Edward Park to the south. These neighbourhoods are sometimes collectively referred to as the Bonnie Doon area. In the river valley to the north of Bonnie Doon is the neighbourhood of
Cloverdale.
The community is represented by the Bonnie Doon
Community League
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, established in 1918, which maintains a
community hall
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and an outdoor rink located at 93 Street and 92 Avenue.
Demographics
In the City of Edmonton's 2019 municipal census, Bonnie Doon had a population of living in dwellings,
an 11.17% change from its 2009 population of .
With a land area of , it had a population density of people/km
2 in 2012.
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Education
Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta
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is in Bonnie Doon. The French-language public school board ''Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord
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'' has its headquarters in the ''La Cité Francophone'' complex.
See also
* Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues
The Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues (EFCL) is a non-profit organization that acts as an administrative body to support community leagues throughout Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and is officially recognized by city council as the coordinatin ...
References
External links
Bonnie Doon Neighbourhood Profile
Bonnie Doon Community League
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Neighbourhoods in Edmonton