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:''For the village in Victoria, Australia see Bonnie Doon, Victoria'' Bonnie Doon is a neighbourhood in south-central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The western part of Bonnie Doon was originally part of the City of Strathcona, and became a part of Edmonton when Strathcona and Edmonton merged in 1912. The rest of the land in the neighbourhood was incorporated by Edmonton the following year.〔Neighbourhood description in the (map utility ) on the City of Edmonton web site.〕 Bonnie Doon takes its name from the Scottish for “pleasant, rolling countryside,” and was named in 1912 in honour of Canadian-born Premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford of Scottish descent who owned a portion of the land east of Mill Creek.〔http://www.edmonton.ca/for_residents/2006_DEMOGRAPHIC_Bonnie_Doon.pdf〕 It is the heart of the Franco-Albertan community〔Fédération des communautés francophones et acadiennes du Canada, (Profil de la communauté francophone de l'Alberta ), Géographie, p. 1 : « Dans la ville d'Edmonton elle-même, le secteur de Bonnie Doon, site de nombreuses institutions francophones, revendique le titre de quartier français. »〕 and hosts the only francophone university west of Manitoba, the University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean, which is located just north of Whyte Avenue on Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury (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 Valley in the north to Whyte (82) Avenue in the south, and Mill Creek Ravine in the west to Connors Road in the north-east and 83 Street in the east. There are two schools in the neighbourhood: Rutherford Elementary School and École Maurice-Lavallée. Surrounding neighbourhoods include: Strathearn to the north, Idylwylde and Holyrood to the east, and King Edward Park 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. == Demographics == In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Bonnie Doon had a population of living in dwellings,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Municipal Census Results – Edmonton 2012 Census )〕 an 8.4% change from its 2009 population of .〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2009 Municipal Census Results )〕 With a land area of ,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Neighbourhoods (data plus kml file) )〕 it had a population density of people/km2 in 2012.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonnie Doon, Edmonton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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