Amazing Facts About Grande Prairie, Alberta

Know the Facts About Grande Prairie, Alberta : Grande Prairie is a very beautiful city in northwest region of Alberta within southern part of an area which is known as Peace River Country.

Amazing Facts About Grande Prairie, Alberta make Grande Prairie a very amazing tourist destination in Alberta.

It is situated at an intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 40, nearly 456 km northwest region of Edmonton. Grande Prairie is surrounded by County of Grande Prairie No. 1 and in turn surrounds T & E Trailer Park.

Grande Prairie was 7th largest city in Alberta in year 2016 with around 63,166 population and was one of the fastest growing cities of Canada between 2001 – 2006.

This city adopted trumpeter swan as its official symbol due to proximity to the summer nesting and migration route
grounds the swan. For this reason, Grande Prairie is nicknamed as “Swan City”.

Amazing Facts About Grande Prairie, Alberta

1. Grand Prairie actually is situated in 3 different counties. It is suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas.

2. In 1863, Alexander McRae Dechman established Grand Prairie and then was named as Dechman in all of his honor.
Dechman traded half of its acreage and he named Grand Prairie as a township to T&P Railroad just to ensure that they put the tracks on his town.

3. Town of Grand Prairie was renamed to Grand Prairie from Dechman due to a huge confusion at Postal Service offices.
T&P Railroad owned half of its land in the town and have noted that it is located in Grand Prairie of Texas between Fort Worth and Dallas.

4. Selena Gomez was born and brought up in Grand Prairie. Selena is both an actress and a singer.

5. Billy Miller of Young and Restless is from the Grand Prairie. Billy Miller been a recipient of Daytime Emmy for all of his work on the show.

6. Kerry Woods, a very famous baseball player is from Grand Prairie. It is one of the Amazing Facts About Grande Prairie, Alberta

7. Grand Prairie ranks the 15th highly populated city in Grand Prairie.

8. Larry D. Alexander, an author is from the Grand Prairie. Larry Alexander is best known for his arts work.

9. Grand Prairie has amazing display of Christmas light which is more than 2 miles in length and has more than 3 million of lights in it.

10. Johnson Creek that passes through the Grand Prairie is for regular floods which besiege this entire city.

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