Bridgeland-Riverside is an inner-city community located on the north side of the Bow River just northeast of downtown Calgary, Alberta. The community boundaries are defined by a commercial development along Edmonton Trail NE on its western edge, a 20 meter escarpment to the north, Tom Campbell's Hill to the east and the Bow River and Memorial Drive NE to the south.

Mission Statement
Bridgeland Riverside Community Association will encourage involvement, through voice and action, to create the inner city community we envision.

Vision Statement
Bridgeland Riverside: play, work, worship, shop and create in a small island of people close to the heart of the city: a delight for the senses; a place to walk on a warm summer night.

The development of The Bridges has been a major catalyst in revitalization of the whole community. With the turnover of the lands, in which the former General Hospital was situated, a whole new complex of "people space" was envisioned and is becoming a reality. A new central park space, including the new Community Centre, has begun to provide a common gathering place for both old and new residents and families in the neighbourhood.

The community has a long and colourful history.

A "working man's" district, the community was the first home in Canada for a predominantly immigrant population intent upon establishing a new life in an often challenging land. Although withinsight of Calgary's downtown core, the region remained quite separate from the bustling new city during the three decades before the annexation of Bridgeland in 1907 and Riverside in 1910.

In the century's first decade, Calgary's population skyrocketed from 4,000 to 40,000 people. During this population influx Italian and Ukrainian immigrants seeking inexpensive places to live began flocking to the terrace above Riverside, where Bridgeland is now.

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