Whyte (82) Avenue is an
arterial road in south-central
Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. It became the main street of the City of
Strathcona as it formed, and now runs through
Old Strathcona. It was named in 1891 after
Sir William Whyte, who was superintendent of the CPR's western division from 1886 to 1897 and was knighted by
King George V in 1911.
[Monto, Tom. Old Strathcona - Edmonton's Southside Roots (Edmonton: Crang Publishing/Alhambra Books, 2011).] Whyte (82) Avenue is part of a continuous roadway that runs through
Sherwood Park
Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area. It is located adjacent to the City of Edmonton's eastern boundary, generally south of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail), ...
, Edmonton, and
St. Albert that includes
Wye Road
Wye may refer to:
Place names
*Wye, Kent, a village in Kent, England
**Wye College, agricultural college, part of University of London before closure in 2009
**Wye School, serving the above village
** Wye railway station, serving the above villag ...
,
Sherwood Park Freeway, portions of
University Avenue and
Saskatchewan Drive
Saskatchewan Drive is a river valley road on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta. It was formed on the banks of the river when the area was known as the City of Strathcona. After the amalgamation with Edmonton, a ...
,
Groat Road
Groat Road is a major roadway in Edmonton, Alberta. It is named after Malcolm Groat, a former Hudson's Bay Company employee who settled in the present-day Groat Estates area in the 1880s. Groat Road is part of a continuous roadway that runs thro ...
, and
St. Albert Trail.
The roadway was originally the core of the former city of
Strathcona and was the division between the north and south
quadrants while ''Main Street'', now
104 Street (Calgary Trail) and was the division between the west and east quadrants.
In 1912, Edmonton and Strathcona amalgamated Edmonton adopted its present numbering system; Whyte Avenue was co-designated ''82 Avenue'' which allowed it to keep both names. As
Alberta's highway system developed, Whyte Avenue became part of
Highway 2 (previously
Highway 1 prior to 1941) between 104 Street and
109 Street while it was part of
Highway 14 east of 104 Street.
The highway designations were moved to
Whitemud Drive in the 1980s.
A small section of 82 Avenue exists as a
collector road
A collector road or distributor road is a low-to-moderate-capacity road which serves to move traffic from local streets to arterial roads. Unlike arterials, collector roads are designed to provide access to residential properties. Rarely, juris ...
between 71 Street and
50 Street, where the main roadway transitions to the Sherwood Park Freeway.
Neighbourhoods
List of neighbourhoods Whyte (82) Avenue runs through, in order from west to east:
*
Garneau
*
Queen Alexandra
*
Strathcona
*
Ritchie
Ritchie may refer to:
People Surname
*Adele Ritchie (1874–1930), singer – comic opera, musical comedy and vaudeville
*Albert Ritchie (1876–1936), governor of Maryland 1920 to 1935
*Alistair Ferguson Ritchie (1890–1954), crossword compiler ...
*
Bonnie Doon
*
King Edward Park
*
Idylwylde
*
Kenilworth
Major intersections
Starting at the west end of University Avenue.
See also
*
Old Strathcona
*
List of avenues in Edmonton
The following is a list of the east–west arterial thoroughfares in the city of Edmonton, Alberta. Numbered avenues run east-west with avenues numbers increasing to the north. In 1982 a quadrant system was adopted. Quadrant Avenue (1 Avenue; only ...
*
Transportation in Edmonton The city of Edmonton, Alberta, has a transportation network fairly typical for a Canadian city of its size, involving most modes of transport including, but certainly not limited to, air, rail, road and public transit.
With very few natural barriers ...
References
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