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Walker, Edmonton

neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7962185 ↗
Source-derived summary

Walker is a new neighbourhood in south east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is bounded on the north by Ellerslie Road (9 Ave SW), on the west by 66 Street SW, and on the east by 50 Street SW. To the south is an undeveloped rural area of Edmonton. In the future, the southern boundary will be 25 Avenue SW.

Demographics

In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Walker had a population of 2,036 living in 832 dwellings. With a land area of 2.63 km2 (1.02 sq mi), it had a population density of 774.1 people/km2 in 2012.

Editorial summary

“Walker, Edmonton” enters the record as neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Walker, Edmonton and neighborhood can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Walker, Edmonton and neighborhood.
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“Walker, Edmonton” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Walker, Edmonton and neighborhood provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7962185. Authority coordinates are 53.416, -113.431. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Walker, Edmonton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.