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

Princess Diana celebrated her twenty-second birthday in Edmonton in the summer of 1983, and one of her first stops was a brand-new convention centre burrowed into a river bank. The Edmonton Convention Centre at 9797 Jasper Avenue opened officially on 22 June 1983 after one of the largest soil excavations ever attempted in the province - roughly 12,000 truckloads of earth carved out of Grierson Hill so the building could cascade down the north slope of the North Saskatchewan River valley. Archit...