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Dead Man's Flats is a hamlet within the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. [3] Statistics Canada also recognizes it as a designated place under the name of Pigeon Mountain . [ 4 ] It is located within Alberta's Rockies at Highway 1 exit 98, approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) southeast of Canmore [ 5 ] and 78 kilometres (48 mi) west of Calgary .
The Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8 is a municipal district (MD) situated in Census Division No. 15 of Alberta, Canada.It is located between Calgary and Banff National Park, north of Kananaskis Improvement District.
Mount Lougheed is a conspicuous landmark that can be seen from Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway at Dead Man's Flats which is east of Canmore. History [ edit ]
Exshaw is the largest hamlet in the M.D. of Bighorn No. 8, which also includes the hamlets of Benchlands, Dead Man's Flats, Harvie Heights and Lac des Arcs, as well as rural ranchland west of Cochrane. The M.D. of Bighorn No. 8's municipal office is located in Exshaw.
There are several communities in the Bow Valley, including Banff, Canmore, Kananaskis, and the hamlets of Dead Man's Flats, Exshaw, Harvie Heights, Lac des Arcs, and Lake Louise. Local residents are culturally diverse, with growing immigration trends since the early 2000s.
Towns of Banff and Canmore; Municipality of Jasper (specialized municipality) Summer villages of Ghost Lake and Waiparous; Hamlets of Lake Louise, Harvie Heights, Exshaw, Dead Man's Flats and Lac des Arcs; Saskatchewan River Crossing (unincorporated community) Kananaskis Village (resort community)
Between 1964 and 1972, a completely new route from Calgary to Canmore was built. The route included new overpasses, bridges, the Canmore Bypass, and a 4-lane divided highway. In 1976, Parks Canada began twinning Highway 1 through Banff National Park, with the highway twinned to Banff by 1985 and to Castle Junction by 1997. [12]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Forty Mile No. 8 had a population of 3,600 living in 861 of its 994 total private dwellings, a change of 0.5% from its 2016 population of 3,581.