Stony Plain

Stony Plain is a town in the Edmonton Capital Region of Alberta, Canada inside Parkland County. It is found west of Edmonton contiguous the City of Spruce Grove. Stony Plain is known as "The Town with the Painted Past" because of the measure of painted wall paintings around the local area. The town was initially known as Dog Rump Creek.

The name of the town is accepted to have originated from one of two conceivable birthplaces. The first is that the Stoney individuals stayed outdoors in the region truly. The second probability is that Dr. James Hector, a geologist on the Palliser Expedition, saw rocks scattered over the region. The official name for the settlement was embraced in 1892. Alex McNabb and McPherson were the primary homesteaders in the region.

The Town of Stony Plain together possesses and works the TransAlta Tri Leisure Center games complex situated inside neighboring Spruce Grove. The town is likewise home to the Multicultural Heritage Center, the Pioneer Museum and has three noteworthy parks, a skate stop, a BMX stop and a green way framework going through town.