Leduc, Alberta, Canada

    
 
 
 
 

 

 

 St. Benedict School

 

St. Benedict School is one of three Catholic public schools in Leduc. We have 296 students attending our school from kindergarten to grade five. There are two classes of each grade except grade five. There are 21 students in our grade four class.  

         

Leduc 100th Anniversary Quilt

 

Leduc is a small city of 23,293 people. It is a satellite community of Edmonton (31 kms.), the capital city of Alberta. Most people live in private, one family homes. Leduc has access to a major highway, railway, and the Edmonton International Airport.  

Aerial View of Leduc

 

Important buildings are the hospital; a Protective Services building that houses the Leduc RCMP Detachment, the Fire Department and the Ambulance Department; the new Leduc Recreation Center which consists of a hockey arena, fitness center, running track, 2 indoor swimming pools with a water slide and spray park, curling rink, 2 indoor soccer fields and a cultural core with meeting rooms.  

 Leduc City Hall

     

The city also has a variety of outdoor facilities: baseball diamonds, soccer, football, and rugby fields and even a biathlon range. Leduc has beautiful parks with a 25 km. system of cycling and foot paths that link the parks and all the city’s neighborhoods. Telford Lake is surrounded by nature and interpretive trails. The lake is very popular. In summer, people launch canoes on the lake. In winter, ice racing and cross country skiing are popular. Fred Johns Park is closest to our school. It has a large reservoir. Its a great place to go trout fishing and adjacent is the Leduc Golf and Country Club.   

     

St. Michael’s Church on Telford Lake

     

 Leduc is known as an oil city. The first oil well in Alberta was the Leduc No. 1 in 1947. Many jobs are related to the oil industry. Because the airport borders Leduc, many people also work at the International Airport.

     

Landscape 

    

The land in our city is flat with lots of trees planted in the many parks and along pathways. Within the city limits is a lake and several man-made lakes. We see an occasional rabbit hopping across the school field. We have lots of wildlife around the reservoir; e.g. muskrats, Canada geese, cormorants, red-winged blackbirds, etc. Deer are a problem in the airport fields and they are often hit by vehicles when they try to cross the highway. We even had skunks in some of our backyards last summer!LT  

    

 

Fred Johns Park near St. Benedict School

 

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