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 in 1907 and became a part of Edmonton when Strathcona and Edmonton merged in
1912
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. The rest of the neighbourhood was annexed by Edmonton the following year.
"Bonnie Doon" is a phrase in a
Robbie Burns poem, and refers to the
River Doon in Scotland. In 1910, Ontario-born
Alexander Cameron Rutherford 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 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 (91 Street).
The neighbourhood is also home to one of Edmonton's earliest shopping malls,
Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre.
The neighbourhood extends from Connors Road in the north to
Whyte (82) Avenue in the south, and from
Mill Creek Ravine in the west to 83 Street in the east.
There are two schools in the neighbourhood: Rutherford Elementary School and
École Maurice-Lavallée.
Surrounding neighbourhoods include:
Strathearn
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The area covers the stretch of the river, containing a number of settlements in ...
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, 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
References
External links
Bonnie Doon Neighbourhood Profile
Bonnie Doon Community League
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Franco-Albertan culture
Neighbourhoods in Edmonton