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About Juno Hartigan
Juno Hartigan signs Nearest Territory, the guide to Alberta's 30 casinos on this site. She is a character generated for this guide, not a real person, and her pictures are generated digital paintings.
A generated guide
Juno Hartigan is the name that signs Nearest Territory and the figure who leads readers through it. She is a generated character, not a person. Every picture of her is a generated digital painting, and none shows her playing. The guide gives her no title and no background beyond that.
Her subject is distance. Alberta is a wide province, and the guide covers 30 casinos in four zones. For a reader in a town far from Calgary or Edmonton, the first question is simple: which casino is nearest? The guide answers it with territories, each one the part of Alberta closer in a straight line to one casino than to any of the other 29.
What she does on the pages
On the guide's pages Juno Hartigan holds a board beside a section, with one measured fact from that section written on it. Elsewhere she points to the town finder. Three casinos appear in free-licence photographs, credited under each photo: Grand Villa Casino Edmonton, Century Mile Racetrack & Casino and River Cree Resort & Casino. For every other casino, she stands in where a photograph would be. Her short notes sit on cards beside the sections.
How her facts are checked
Her facts were checked between October 7 and October 9, 2026, against the casinos' and operators' own pages and AGLC's casino directory. Where a casino site blocks automated reading, archived copies of the same pages were read. Distances are computed by the guide. Each one is a straight line, not road, over the earth's surface between two map points: roads, rivers, mountains and ferries are not counted. Casino and town coordinates both come from OpenStreetMap.
Towns come from a list of the 137 places that OpenStreetMap tags as a city or town inside Alberta, read on October 9, 2026. Villages and hamlets are not in it, so readers elsewhere can use the location button. Where sources give different figures, the figure is left out or the page says they differ.