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Distribution of Alberta's 80 villages. A village is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta villages are created when communities with populations of at least 300 people, where a majority of their buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1,850 m 2, apply to Alberta Municipal Affairs for village status under the authority of the Municipal ...
A village is a type of incorporated municipality within the majority of the provinces and territories of Canada. As of January 1, 2012, there were 550 villages among the provinces of Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , New Brunswick , the Northwest Territories , Ontario , Quebec , Saskatchewan and Yukon .
As a result of Section 79 being repealed, [1] summer villages can no longer be formed in Alberta. [5] Essentially, summer villages were once formed from urban communities with populations of less than 300 people and significant non-permanent populations. When a summer village's population exceeds 300 people, its council may apply to change its ...
Villages in Alberta, Canada. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates)
Canada's cities span the continent of North America from east to west, but many of them are located relatively close to the border with the United States.Cities are home to the majority of Canada's approximately 35.75 million inhabitants (as of 2015)—just over 80 percent of Canadians lived in urban areas in 2006.
The province of Alberta, Canada, has a history and prehistory stretching back thousands of years.The ancestors of today's First Nations in Alberta arrived in the area by at least 10,000 BC according to the Bering land bridge theory.
Ryley is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is surrounded by Beaver County, along Highway 14 between the City of Edmonton and the Town of Viking. The City of Camrose is approximately 58 km (36 mi) south of Ryley. The village was named in 1908 after George Urquhart Ryley, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Land Commissioner at the time. [5]
Vilna is a village in central Alberta, Canada. Vilna is located in Smoky Lake County , on Highway 28 , 150 km (93.2 mi) northeast of the city of Edmonton . Bonnie Lake Provincial Recreation Area is located 6 km (3.7 mi) north of the community, on the shores of Bonnie Lake .