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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Seven thousand dollars bought Edmonton a stadium in 1938, and the ground is still working nearly ninety years later. Clarke Stadium at 11000 Stadium Road NW was the prize of a decade-long campaign by Joseph A. Clarke, the pugnacious mayor who talked the federal government - Prime Minister Mackenzie King was a personal friend - into deeding the city a tract of east-central land for public sports fields, then pushed a stadium through council. The original build seated 2,040 on bleachers with dress...