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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 ...
[2] [3] The province's largest summer village by population is Norglenwold with 306, while Castle Island is Alberta's smallest summer village with a population of 15. [3] The province's largest and smallest summer villages by land area are Silver Sands and Castle Island with 2.51 km 2 (0.97 sq mi) and 0.05 km 2 (0.019 sq mi) respectively. [3]
As a result of Section 79 being repealed, [1] summer villages can no longer be formed in Alberta.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 ...
Alberta's census divisions consist of numerous census subdivisions. The types of census subdivisions within an Alberta census division may include: [1] [2] cities, towns, villages, and summer villages (urban municipalities); specialized municipalities; municipal districts, special areas, and improvement districts (rural municipalities); Indian ...
Alberta has 19 cities that had a cumulative population of 3,023,641 (not including the population in the Saskatchewan portion of Lloydminster) and an average population of 159,139 in the 2021 Census of Population. [2] Alberta's largest and smallest cities are Calgary and Wetaskiwin, with populations of 1,306,784 and 12,594, respectively. [2]
Memramcook is the largest village in New Brunswick with a population of 4,831 Casselman is the largest village in Ontario with a population of 3,626 [1]. A village is a type of incorporated municipality within the majority of the provinces and territories of Canada.
Cynthia and Drayton Valley were the first communities in Alberta to incorporate as new towns on June 1, 1956. [20] [21] Drayton Valley did so after only six months of incorporation as a village, [21] and was also the community that operated under new town status for the shortest period – eight months from June 1, 1956, to February 1, 1957. [22]
The table below lists the 100 largest census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census for census subdivisions. [1] This list includes only the population within a census subdivision's boundaries as defined at the time of the census.