Livability
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Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
#39
Latest · 2018 · of 415
Alberta
Grande Prairie
Swan City on the Buffalo Plains
Grande Prairie in brief
Dane-zaa (Beaver) peoples occupied what traders later called Buffalo Plains, and priest Emile Grouard coined La Grande Prairie for the wide open country. A Hudson's Bay outpost of that name went up in 1880 northwest of today's city; Cree and Iroquois settlers from Jasper and Lac Ste. Anne arrived later, and a 1909 land survey sparked a homestead rush over the Edson Trail.
By 1916 the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway made Grande Prairie its terminus. Locals adopted the trumpeter swan as an official symbol, and dinosaur finds nearby gave the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum a perfect hometown excuse.
Drawn from Wikipedia, Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.
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City Score over time
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Rankings for Grande Prairie
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Worth knowing in Grande Prairie
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Grande Prairie is a city in northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country.
It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 40, approximately 456 kilometres (283 mi) northwest of the provincial capital, Edmonton.
The city is surrounded by the County of Grande Prairie No.
Places to see
Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
In nearby Wembley, this museum interprets finds from the Pipestone Creek bonebed, one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites known.
