Mayor's plan for provincial park in southwest Edmonton backed by Enoch Cree Nation

Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson is lobbying for the creation of a new provincial park within city boundaries — one that would give residents access to a “phenomenal” natural area and create opportunity for cultural tourism.
The river valley park would protect the southwest Big Island-Woodbend area and could be co-managed with the Enoch Cree Nation, since it overlaps with reserve land the Cree nation was forced to give up in the early 1900s.
“It really is a phenomenal area,&rdqu