When you search a city on Google, most times you get a beautiful skyline behind a river, ocean, or lake, but in Edmonton's case ... well, there's a power plant.

Google’s Edmonton Knowledge Graphs includes a photo of the historic Rossdale Power Plant.

 

“Think it looks like smog and ugly, which isn’t what the city represents anymore,” Lee Church told CTV News.

A local Reddit user noticed the unflattering display and went on the website to rally the troops, asking, “Can we tell Google to update our city’s image?”

The Rossdale Power Plant – Edmonton’s first power station – was given historical designation in 2001. But the Google image is outdated, because the grey EPCOR building with the three smoke stacks was demolished in 2011.

The city has changed over the years, and younger Edmontonians would prefer something fresher to represent their city online.

“We want people to come, so when you Google Edmonton, you actually want to see something enticing, you know, like our river or our mall, or downtown – not an old factory that no longer is there,” Conor Fraser said.

With files from Jeremy Thompson