Dickinsfield, Edmonton

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This article is about Dickinsfield and the neighbourhoods of Evansdale and Northmount in Edmonton. For other uses of Evansdale, see Evansdale. For other uses of Northmount, see Northmount.

Dickinsfield is bounded on the south by 137 Avenue, on the north by 157 Avenue, on the east by 82 Street, and on the west by 97 Street. It is split roughly in half by 144 Avenue with the south half containing the neighbourhood of Northmount and the north half making up the neighbourhood of Evansdale. 97 Street provides access to both the downtown core and CFB Edmonton.

The Dickinsfield area, the Dickinsfield Elementary School, and the Dickinsfield Extended Care Centre are all named after aviator Clennell Haggerston "Punch" Dickins. Dickens was the first pilot inducted into the Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame.^[1]

The neighbourhood of Evansdale is named after Harry Marshall Erskine Evans, Edmonton's mayor from 1918 to 1919 and president of the Edmonton Board of Trade (now the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce) in 1916.

Both neighbourhoods are residential neighbourhoods with schools, churches, shopping, and medical services.

1 Housing
2 Schools
- 2.1 Schools in Evansdale
- 2.2 Schools in Northmount
3 Shopping
4 Health Care Services
5 Surrounding Neighbourhoods
6 Notes

[edit] Housing

Housing in both neighbourhoods is predominantly single family dwellings with just over half (54%) of the homes in Evansdale and seven out of ten (69%) of the homes in Northmount being of this type. Evansdale has a significant portion of residences (24%) in walk up apartment buildings, while approximately one in five residences (20%) in both neighbourhoods are row houses.

Housing Type	Evansdale^[2]	Northmount^[3]	Dickinsfield^[4]
Apartments With Five Or More Stories^[5]	0%	0%	0%
Apartments With Fewer Than Five Stories	24%	2%	16%
Duplexes^[6]	3%	0%	2%
Rooming Houses^[7]	0%	7%	3%
Row Houses	19%	21%	20%
Single Family Dwelling	54%	69%	60%
Total	100%	100%	100%

[edit] Schools

There are six schools operated by the Edmonton Public School system and the Edmonton Cathlolic School System in Dickinsfield, three in Evansdale and three in Northmount. Two are junior high schools and four are elementary schools. In addition, there are two other educational facilities located in the area's Dickinsfield Mall.

[edit] Schools in Evansdale

Edmonton Public School System
- Evansdale Elementary School

Edmonton Catholic School System
- Cardinal Leger Catholic Junior High School
- St. Philip Catholic Elementary School

[edit] Schools in Northmount

Edmonton Public School System
- Dickinsfield Junior High School
- Northmount Elementary School

Edmonton Catholic School System
- St. Anne Catholic Elementary School

[edit] Shopping

There are two shopping malls in Dickinsfield. One is the Dickinsfield Mall. The other is North Town Mall, located at the southwest corner of Northmount. Immediately across 137 Avenue from the North Town Mall is Northgate Centre. The Edmonton Transit System's Northgate Transit Centre is located next to North Town Mall on the north side of 137 Street.