Rossdale, Edmonton
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EPCOR's Rossdale Power Plant viewed from the High Level Bridge
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 Rossdale
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| Coordinates: 53°31′55″N 113°29′46″W / 53.532°N 113.496°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Alberta
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| City | Edmonton |
| Quadrant | NW |
| Ward | 6 |
| Sector | Mature area |
| Area | Central core |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Don Iveson |
| • Administrative body | Edmonton City Council |
| • Councillor | Scott McKeen |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.91 km2 (0.35 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 630 m (2,070 ft) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 819 |
| • Density | 900/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
| • Change (2009–12) |
 -4.7% |
| • Dwellings | 504 |
Rossdale is a river valley neighbourhood in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, located immediately south of the downtown core. It is a popular residential neighbourhood with easy access to downtown, the University of Alberta, the Edmonton river valley park system, and other amenities.
Edmonton Ballpark, home to the Edmonton Prospects baseball team of the Western Major Baseball League since 2012, is located in this neighbourhood. The Edmonton Trappers also called Edmonton Ballpark, then Telus Field, home up to the end of the 2004 season, when the franchise was moved to another city.
A short distance to the west of the neighbourhood, along River Valley Road, are the Royal Glenora Club, the Golf Course, and the Skating Oval in Victoria Park.
The site of the Rossdale powerplant was a First Nations campsite from the time that people first moved into the Edmonton area after the retreat of the glaciers around 8,000 years ago. In the early 1800s it was used as the site for the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Edmonton and the North West Company's Fort Augustus, although this was only a theory until 2012 when a trench thought to be part of stockade wall was unearthed.
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Rossdale had a population of 819 living in 504 dwellings, a -4.7% change from its 2009 population of 859. With a land area of 0.91 km2 (0.35 sq mi), it had a population density of 900 people/km2 in 2012.
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