The Ellerslie Member is a stratigraphic unit of Early Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin .
7-618: It takes the name from Ellerslie , a community in southern Edmonton , and was first described in Imperial Oil 's Whitemud No. 3 well by C. Warren Hunt in 1950. The Ellerslie Member is composed of fine grained sand with sandy shale and shaley sand lenses in the upper part, and medium grained quartz sand , siltstone and coal in the lower part. Oil is produced from the Ellerslie Member in southern Alberta and central Alberta . The Ellerslie Member Lateral reaches
14-622: A thickness of 40 m (130 ft) (Upper Ellerslie) and 30 m (100 ft) (Lower Ellerslie). It occurs in the sub-surface in central and southern Alberta and south-western Saskatchewan. The Ellerslie Member represents the lower part of the Mannville Group in southern and central Alberta. It is conformably overlain by the Ostracod Beds of the Manville Group and rests unconformably on Paleozoic strata such as
21-510: Is recognized as a locality by Statistics Canada . Wernerville got its name from the large clan of Werner families that settled in the area starting in the 1890s. The Ellerslie neighbourhood is bounded on the south by Ellerslie Road, on the north by the Anthony Henday Drive corridor, on the east by 66 Street, and on the west by 91 Street. Wernerville comprises the easternmost portion of the neighbourhood. Immediately north of
28-700: The Anthony Henday Drive is the Mill Woods area of Edmonton and the neighbourhoods of Satoo and Menisa . The most common type of residence in the neighbourhood is the single family dwelling . According to the 2005 municipal census, two out of every three residences (66%) were single-family dwellings. Row houses make up another one in five (20%) of residences followed by apartment style condominiums which make up 12% of all residences. The remaining 2% or residences were duplexes . Substantially all residences in Ellerslie are owner occupied. The community
35-669: The Banff Formation or Pekisko Formation , often separated by a Detrital Zone . It is correlated to the McMurray Formation in the Athabasca Oil Sands of north-eastern Alberta and the Dina Member in east-central Alberta and west-central Saskatchewan . Ellerslie, Edmonton Ellerslie is a residential neighbourhood in southeast Edmonton , Alberta , Canada . The name was adopted by
42-514: The McLaggan brothers, formerly of Scotland, who moved there in early 1890s, although there are several different theories why that name was adopted. A school district of that name was established by 1895, and a post office of that name was established in 1896. It was a rural area many kilometers south of the boundaries of the Town of Edmonton , incorporated in 1892. Even after 1899 incorporation of
49-727: The Town of Strathcona on the southside of the river, Ellerslie still maintained its relative isolation as a rural area. Its location along the Calgary-Edmotnon Trail and the Calgary & Edmonton Railway gave it some significance. The Ellerslie neighbourhood includes the Wernerville country residential area, which is designated a special study area within the Ellerslie Area Structure Plan and
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