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Improvement District No. 4, or Improvement District No. 04 (Waterton), [4] is an improvement district in Alberta, Canada. Coextensive with Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta , the improvement district provides local governance for lands within the park that are not within an Indian reserve .
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.
In Alberta, a municipal district, typically branded as a county, is a type of rural municipality. [32] The MGA, enacted in 2000, stipulates that an area may incorporate as a municipal district if it has a population of 1,000 people or more and the majority of its buildings are on parcels of land larger than 1,850 m 2 (19,900 sq ft).
Alberta began the year of 2024 with 342 municipalities. Of these, 24 notified Alberta Municipal Affairs of their intentions to conduct a municipal census in 2024, [ 3 ] including at least five cities , nine towns , one village , two specialized municipalities , and two municipal districts .
Alberta has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses between April 1 and June 30 inclusive. [1] [2] Municipalities choose to conduct their own censuses for multiple reasons such as to better inform municipal service planning and provision, to capitalize on per capita based grant funding from higher levels of government, or to simply update their ...
Alberta began the year of 2023 with 342 municipalities due to the amalgamation of the towns of Black Diamond and Turner Valley to form Diamond Valley. [3] Seven municipalities conducted a municipal census in 2023: Municipal District (MD) of Willow Creek No. 26 and the cities of Airdrie , Fort Saskatchewan , Lacombe , Leduc , Lethbridge , and ...
By municipal status, it recognized those conducted by 13 of Alberta's 17 cities, 18 of 108 towns, 3 of 93 villages, 1 of 51 summer villages and 2 of 64 municipal districts. [ 5 ] [ b ] In addition to those recognized by Municipal Affairs, censuses were conducted by the Town of Drayton Valley and the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No ...
Division No. 4 is a census division in Alberta, Canada. It is located in the northeast corner of southern Alberta and its largest urban community is the Town of Hanna. The census division contains all of Alberta's Special Areas as well as the Municipal District of Acadia. Division No. 4 is the smallest census division in Alberta according to ...