Bridgeland Riverside Area Improvements

Bridgeland Riverside Area Improvements
For over a century, 1 Avenue N.E. has been the commercial corridor for the community of Bridgeland-Riverside. Sections of 4 Street N.E. and Edmonton Trail have been a crucial connection into downtown Calgary. Established below the escarpment on the north side of the Bow River, the area known as Bridgeland-Riverside is traditional territory of the Blackfoot people and is on Treaty 7 territory like all of Calgary. 4 Street N.E. was once part of the Old North Trail, an ancient north-south migration trail for first peoples which became known as Edmonton Trail after Fort Calgary was established in 1875. It was an important commercial route for the hay and fur trades, with stagecoach service after 1883.