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Strathcona County is a specialized municipality in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region within Alberta, Canada between Edmonton and Elk Island National Park. It forms part of Census Division No. 11 . Strathcona County is both urban and rural in nature.
Alberta has six specialized municipalities that had a cumulative population of 178,598 and an average population of 35,720 in the 2011 Census. [4] Alberta's largest and smallest specialized municipalities are the Strathcona County and the Municipality of Jasper with populations of 92,490 and 4,051 respectively. [4]
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.
Strathcona County South Cooking Lake is a hamlet in Alberta , Canada within Strathcona County . [ 2 ] It is located on Highway 14 , approximately 19 km (12 mi) southeast of Sherwood Park .
Strathcona was a city in Alberta, Canada on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. Originally founded in 1891 as a railway centre, it became a town in 1899 ...
Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area. [6] It is located on traditional Treaty 6 territory, and adjacent to the City of Edmonton's eastern boundary. [7]
Collingwood Cove is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County. [2] It is located at the terminus of Highway 629, approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Sherwood Park. Commonly referred to as The Cove, Collingwood Cove started growing in the early 1950s as a popular summer lakeside resort.
Alberta's first specialized municipality was the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which formed on April 1, 1995. [26] Strathcona County and the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo are home to the unincorporated hamlets of Sherwood Park and Fort McMurray respectively. [27]