Strathcona

Meaning

Proper Noun

• former city in central province, Alberta and neighbourhood of city, Edmonton ; the business district of which is now called "Old Strathcona".
• county province, Alberta formerly centred on the defunct city, now centred on Sherwood Park.

Origin

• 1897, srath + Coe, a variant of Glencoe, invented to avoid the negative associations with the Massacre of Glencoe (1692), created as an aristocratic title for Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal. Other uses derive from places name after Smith.