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A rest area with limited to no public facilities is a lay-by, parking area, scenic area, or scenic overlook. Along some highways and roads are services known as wayside parks, roadside parks, or picnic areas .
Many public agencies are also subject to more specific legislation and acts. There are five main categories of public agencies in Alberta: Regulatory/Adjudicative: Regulatory agencies license, make rules for, and oversee sectors of society and economy. Adjudicative agencies have quasi-judicial powers, such as ruling on appeals.
A westbound rest area on the shore of Lac des Arcs provides access to the water. From there the highway exits the mountains passing the interchange for Alberta Highway 1X, a 1 km (0.62 mi) connection to Highway 1A (also used to access Bow Valley Provincial Park).
A Husky truck stop in Calgary in Alberta, Canada. A truck stop (known as a service station in the United Kingdom, [1] a travel center by major chains in the United States and a roadhouse in rural Australia) is a commercial facility which provides refueling, rest (), and often ready-made food and other services to motorists and truck drivers.
Location of Alberta in Canada Distribution of Alberta's 6 specialized municipalities (red) and 73 rural municipalities, which include municipal districts (orange), improvement districts (dark green) and special areas (light green) Alberta is the fourth-most populous province in Canada with 4,262,635 residents as of 2021 Census of Population and ...
Baker Park is named after Dr. Albert Henry Baker (1883–1953), the director of a tuberculosis (TB) sanitorium located on the same site from 1920 to 1979 and demolished in 1989 by Alberta Public Works. [2] The federal government's Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment Department constructed the first buildings in 1918.
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]
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.