Northwest Edmonton

Greishbach

The Griesbach neighbourhood is located in north Edmonton and is bounded by 153rd Avenue to the north, 97th Street to the east, 137th Street to the south, and Castle Downs Raod to the west. Griesbach is a developing neighbourhood in an established part of the city. The neighbourhood represents a major redevelopment effort undertaken by the Canada Lands Company on the site of a former Canadian national defense facility originally developed in the 1950s. Over the last 50 years, Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Griesbach has housed many military personnel - whether in barracks or families in the married quarters. Children went to school there, customers bought gas at the Canex, people played hockey and worked out at the gym. With the decision in the mid-1990s to consolidate several army bases at Lancaster Park (at Namao, north of Edmonton), activities at Griesbach started to wind down. By the end of 2000, many facilities had been relocated to Namao. The neighbourhood began redeveloping as a non-military residential community in the early 2000s, and development was still actively underway as of 2010.

The large strategically located site with good existing infrastructure connections provided an excellent opportunity to undertake a large scale redevelopment project once CFB Griesbach was closed. Griesbach is surrounded on all sides by residential neighbourhoods, and the neighbourhood is connected with major major arterial roads. The focus for Griesbach’s redevelopment was on creating a well-planned community that integrates existing tree stands and vegetation, provides for a range of housing types, established a high quality public realm, and ensures a unique urban experience through the development of a town square, parks and community amenities. The internal roadway network focuses on a large central community park. The surrounding residential area is primarily single detached housing, with ground oriented multiple-unit housing and apartments at locations with amenity and good access. One school site and the recreation center have been incorporated into the plan. Significant amenity is introduced into large areas of the plan by including a waterway with a parallel walkway system. A commercial village centre has been located at the key transportation node at the southeast corner. A potential mixed-use business campus has been designated in the southwest corner.

Griesbach takes its name from Maj. Gen. William Antrobus Griesbach (1878-1945) who was a veteran of the Boer War and WWI, a practicing lawyer and Edmonton’s youngest mayor in 1907. Griesbach also served as a member of parliament from 1917 to 1921, and was named to the Canadian senate in 1921 where he was commissioned as a major general in recognition of his war service.

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Wellington

Wellington is part of a large parcel of land that was annexed to Edmonton in 1913. At the time the nearest development to Wellington was the Village of Calder to the southeast, which was some miles from the developed portion of Edmonton. Development in Wellington remained dormant until the area was subdivided in the 1950s. Most of the remainder of the neighbourhood was developed during the 1960s, and a small amount of residential construction continued for the next couple of decades.

Wellington is located north of 132 Avenue to 137 Avenue and west of 127 Street to the McArthur Industrial neighbourhood. A landscaped buffer separates Wellington from the industrial area. Single detached houses account for over 90% of the neighbourhood structures and just under three-quarters of all dwelling units. The remaining dwelling units are in semidetached homes, row housing and low rise apartments. There is a significant row of multiunit housing located along 140 Street on the far west side of the neighbourhood. Other multifamily parcels are located on the arterial streets that ring the neighbourhood and single detached homes are primarily located in the interior of the neighbourhood.

Like other neighbourhoods of its period, Wellington’s design is based on a central school and park site that anchors the community. Interior streets are designed on a modified grid network to reduce shortcutting through the neighbourhood and provide residents with quiet local streets. In addition to the central school and park site, Wellington also contains a variety of smaller parks that provide most residents with access to open space near their homes.

Wellington was named after Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) who was the first Duke of Wellington and led the British victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellington Park, as the area was once known, has been the name for the neighbourhood since 1910.

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Hudson

The Hudson neighbourhood is located within the Palisades Area Structure Plan in north Edmonton. The Hudson Neighbourhood is bounded on the east by the commercial area fronting 127 Street, on the north by Cumberland Road and on the west by an existing industrial area/140th Street. The southern boundary of the neighbourhood is delineated by the commercial development fronting onto 137 Avenue. The northwest corner of the neighbourhood is defined its border with the Cumberland neighbourhood. Hudson Road provides the main collector road through the neighbourhood. The land uses surrounding Hudson include industrial to the west, commercial to the south and east, and residential uses to the north. The intent of the plan for Hudson was to integrate the residential lands with the Cumberland Neighbourhood to the north, while separating and buffering the commercial and business industrial lands to the south and west.

While a limited number of residential units were built in the 1990s, residential construction began in earnest in the early 2000s. The neighbourhood features low density single-detached homes and some low rise multi-unit buildings. As of the end of the 2000s Hudson was still under construction, with undeveloped residential parcels located primarily along the eastern boarder of the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood features good access to commercial and employment centres within close proximity to the residential areas. A stormwater management pond in the northeastern corner of the neighbourhood provides residents with access to open space, and pedestrian pathways encircle the water feature.

Following in the naming convention of the Palisades area, all neighbourhood names are derived from famous forts. Hudson is named after the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) post, Hudson House, located 40 kilometers west of present-day Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Hudson House was built by William Tomison in 1779. HBC was named after Henry Hudson who first entered the Hudson Bay area in 1610.

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Cumberland

Cumberland is located within the Palisades Plan Area in the northwest sector of the city. The neighbourhood is bound by 153rd Avenue to the north, 142nd Street to the west, Cumberland Road to the south and 127th Street to the east.

Development began in the neighbourhood in the 1990s, but most of the construction of residential units took place in the early 2000s. Prior to urban development the neighbourhood was in agricultural use. The neighbourhood is a predominantly low density residential community, with over 90% of residential units comprised of single-detached homes. A 5.66 hectare park is located in the northeast portion of the neighbourhood and pedestrian connections are provided through a series of pathways located along linear parks that run through Cumberland. A stormwater management facility, which functions as a small lake, is located in the centre of the neighbourhood and single-detached homes are designed around it. There is also a natural tree stand preserved within the neighbourhood south of 150th Avenue. These features provide residents with access to open space and recreational opportunities.

Cumberland’s name is based on the theme within the Palisades area of adopting names that refer to early forts and posts. Cumberland House was the first Hudson’s Bay Company inland trading post. The trading post was built by Samuel Hearne in 1774, on the Saskatchewan River, near the present-day Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. The post was named to honour the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Prince Rupert, Duke of Cumberland.

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Oxford

The Oxford neighbourhood is located in northwest Edmonton within the Palisades Area Structure Plan (ASP), and the land upon which the Palisades ASP sits was annexed to the City of Edmonton in 1982. Oxford forms the northwest corner of the Palisades and is bounded by 167th Avenue to the north, 133rd Street to the east, 153rd Avenue to the south and 127th Street to the west.

The interior roadways within the neighbourhood are built around a central collector road from which a series of smaller loops and cul-de-sacs are connected. The dominant residential form in Oxford is the single-detached house, which accounts for almost 90% of all units within the neighbourhood. In addition to residential land use the neighbourhood also features a large central park site with space reserved for the construction of a local school, as well as a small lake which provides the dual function of managing stormwater and providing outdoor amenity space within the community.

Development of the Oxford Neighbourhood began in the late 1980’s and progressed from the area immediately west of 127th Street and 158th Avenue to the west, south and north. By December 1999, nearly all of the land in the southern two thirds of the neighbourhood had been developed. As of the end of the 2000s, the remaining third of the neighbourhood, in the north, had not yet begun to develop. One of the key features in the northern, undeveloped, third of the neighbourhood is a drained wetland that is seasonally wet. The Province of Alberta claimed ownership for this wetland under the Public Lands Act and any future development within the area will need to conform to applicable Provincial regulations on wetland disturbance and wildlife protection. Prior to urban development, most of the land within Oxford was used for agricultural cultivation.

All neighbourhoods within the Palisades ASP are named after early fur trade forts and posts. Oxford takes its name from the “Oxford House,” which was a Hudson’s Bay Company post in what is now southwest Manitoba.

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Beaumaris

During the oil driven economic boom of the 1970s, Edmonton expanded its boundaries to accommodate a steady population growth. In 1971, the City of Edmonton annexed the entire Castle Downs and Lake District areas. Development of the neighbourhoods in the Castle Downs area began shortly after the land was subdivided and construction continued into the 1980s.

Beaumaris is located between 97th Street and Castle Downs Road, and between 153rd Avenue and 160th Avenue. Beaumaris Road, which runs down the centre of the neighbourhood, turns to become the boundary between Beaumaris and Lorelei in the northwest end of the neighbourhood.

Lake Beaumaris Mall, located in the southeast corner of the neighbourhood on Castle Downs Road, offers a good variety of commercial services to Beaumaris and surrounding areas. On the west end of the neighbourhood is a large park that provides excellent recreational opportunities to nearby residents.

Like adjacent neighbourhoods, Beaumaris was named by the developer of the Castle Downs area, Business and Construction Materials Inc., now known as Genstar. The intent was to name the subdivisions and neighbourhoods after famous castles. Beaumaris is a famous castle in Wales. The castle theme is echoed by the design of the neighbourhood. An illusion of a keep (fortress castle) and moat are created by the houses enclosed by Castle Keep and Beaumaris Lake.

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