15 Amazing Facts About St. Albert

Facts About St. Albert: St. Albert is an amazing and a very beautiful city in Alberta, Canada. It is situated on Sturgeon River northwest of City of Edmonton. Albert was settled as a Metis community. Albert is now 2nd largest city in Edmonton Capital Region.

St. Albert received the very first its town status in year 1904 and it was reached by Canadian Northern Railway in year 1906.

Separated from Edmonton by number of miles of farmland, in 1980 expansion of Edmonton’s city limits up St. Albert exactly adjacent to larger city on south of St. Albert and its east sides.

15 Amazing Facts About St. Albert

1. St Albert is the very oldest non fortified community of Alberta.

2. It was founded in year 1861, St. Albert became a very beautiful town in mid of 1950s and officially got city status in year 1977.

3. St. Albert is 6th largest city in Alberta.

4. As per 2016 municipal census population of Albert is 64,645.

5. As per city’s recent community satisfaction survey, around 99% of the respondents gave positive rating on quality of life.

6. MoneySense Magazine voted St. Albert as #1 best small city to live in Canada in year 2016.

7. MoneySense Magazine also voted St. Albert as #1 best place to live in Canada in year 2014.

8. Average household income of Albert in 2010 was over $136,000; it is the 3rd highest for a municipality of Alberta.

9. Regional trading area of St. Albert exceed by 1 million people.

10. There are more than 2,400 businesses in St. Albert.

11. Currently St. Albert Transit operates around 55 buses and carries more than 1.1 million riders yearly.

12. Servus Credit Union Place, a multi-purpose leisure facility of St. Albert receives more than 1 million visitors yearly.

13. Servus Credit Union Place had 96% of customer satisfaction in 2014.

14. There are more than 50 recreational and sports organizations in St. Albert.

15. There are more than 80,000 trees in St. Albert.