Bonnie Doon, Edmonton
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- For the village in Victoria, Australia see Bonnie Doon, VictoriaBonnie Doon, VictoriaBonnie Doon is a small village in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Maroondah Highway, in the Shire of Mansfield. Bonnie Doon is 115 kilometres north-east from Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Bonnie Doon and the surrounding area had a population of 755....
Bonnie Doon is a neighbourhood in south-central Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
, Alberta
Alberta
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, Canada
Canada
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. The western part of Bonnie Doon was originally part of the City of Strathcona
Strathcona, Alberta
Strathcona was a city in Alberta, Canada, located on the south of the North Saskatchewan River opposite of the City of Edmonton. It amalgamated with Edmonton on February 1, 1912....
, and became a part of Edmonton when Strathcona and Edmonton merged in 1912
1912 in Canada
-Events:*February 1 - Strathcona merges with Edmonton, Alberta*April 1 - The Parliament of Canada passes Quebec Boundaries Extension Act that transferred to the Province of Quebec the territory bounded by the Eastmain River, the Labrador coast, and Hudson and Ungava Bays, extending the northern...
. The rest of the land in the neighbourhood was incorporated by Edmonton the following year.
It is the heart of the Franco-Albertan
Franco-Albertan
The Franco-Albertans are an extended community of French Canadians or French-speaking people living in Alberta. They are centred in the Bonnie Doon area of Edmonton, and there are tens of thousands of Franco-Albertans living in communities such as Legal north of Edmonton, Bonnyville, Plamondon, and...
community and hosts the only francophone
Francophone
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university west of Manitoba
Manitoba
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, the University of Alberta's
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...
Campus Saint-Jean
University of Alberta Faculté Saint-Jean
The Campus Saint-Jean was first a faculty of the University of Alberta located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at 84 Avenue and Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury...
, which is located just north of Whyte Avenue on Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury
Marie-Anne Gaboury
Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a French-Canadian woman noted as both the grandmother of Louis Riel, and as the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in what is now Western Canada....
(91 Street).
The neighbourhood is also home to one of Edmonton's first major shopping malls, Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre.
The neighbourhood extends roughly from the North Saskatchewan River
North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. It is one of two major rivers that join to make up the Saskatchewan River....
Valley in the north to Whyte (82) Avenue
Old Strathcona
Old Strathcona is an historic district located in south-central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Once the commercial core of the separate city of Strathcona, the area is now Edmonton's main arts and entertainment district, and in 2007 was named Alberta's second "Provincial Historic Area"...
in the south, and Mill Creek Ravine
Mill Creek Ravine
Mill Creek Ravine is located in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The north end of the ravine opens onto the North Saskatchewan River valley near the west end of Cloverdale and then approaches the Low Level and the James McDonald bridges...
in the west to Connors Road in the north-east and 83 Street in the east.
There are three schools in the neighbourhood: Rutherford Elementary School, École Maurice-Lavallée, and École Gabrielle-Roy.
Surrounding neighbourhoods include: Strathearn
Strathearn, Edmonton
Strathearn is a roughly triangular shaped residential neighbourhood in south central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Most of the development in Strathearn dates to the 1940s and 1950s....
to the north, Idylwylde
Idylwylde, Edmonton
Idylwylde is a residential neighbourhood in south east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.According to the 2001 federal census, just over half of the residences in the neighbourhood were built between the end of World War II and 1960. Another one in four were built between 1961 and 1980...
and Holyrood
Holyrood, Edmonton
Holyrood is a residential neighbourhood in the Bonnie Doon area of south east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The name, Holyrood, is an anglicisation of the Scots haly ruid ....
to the east, and King Edward Park
King Edward Park, Edmonton
King Edward Park is a residential neighbourhood on south east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The neighbourhood was originally annexed by Edmonton in 1912....
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
Cloverdale, Edmonton
Cloverdale is a river valley neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada located on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. It is located immediately across the river from the downtown core and the river valley neighborhood of Riverdale. Southside neighborhoods overlooking Cloverdale...
.