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Alberta's largest and smallest cities are Calgary and Wetaskiwin, with populations of 1,306,784 and 12,594, respectively. [2] Beaumont became Alberta's 19th city on January 1, 2019. [3] 157 elected city officials (19 mayors and 138 councillors) provide city governance throughout the province. [4]
Contents. List of municipalities in Alberta. Alberta is the fourth-most populous province in Canada with 4,262,635 residents as of 2021 Census of Population and is the fourth-largest in land area at 634,658 km 2 (245,043 sq mi). [ 1 ] Alberta's 344 municipalities cover 99.7% of the province's land mass and are home to 99% of its population. [ 2 ...
The authority to incorporate a community as a new town came from The New Towns Act, which was chapter 39 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1956. At least 12 communities incorporated as a new town between 1956 and 1967. Cynthia and Drayton Valley were the first communities in Alberta to incorporate as new towns on June 1, 1956.
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta borders British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south. It is one of the only two landlocked provinces ...
Red Deer Lake. Website. Official website. Bashaw / ˈbæʃɔː / is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is at the junction of Highway 21 and Highway 53. The community has the name of Eugene Bashaw, an original owner of the town site. [5] Post office dates from 1910.
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc.), are predominantly rural areas that may include either farmland, Crown land or a combination of both depending on their geographic location.
Red Deer is a city in Alberta, Canada, located midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Red Deer serves central Alberta, [10] and its key industries include health care, retail trade, construction, oil and gas, hospitality, manufacturing and education. [11] It is surrounded by Red Deer County and borders on Lacombe County.
Wainwright, Alberta. Wainwright is a town in east-central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately 206 kilometres (128 mi) southeast of Edmonton. Located west of the Alberta – Saskatchewan border, Wainwright is 61 kilometres (38 mi) south of Vermilion in the Battle River valley. Highway 41, called the Buffalo Trail, and Highway 14 go through the ...