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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 ...
First Nations in Alberta are a group of people who live in the Canadian province of Alberta. The First Nations are peoples (or nations) recognized as Indigenous peoples or Plains Indians in Canada excluding the Inuit and the Métis. According to the 2011 Census, a population of 116,670 Albertans self-identified as First Nations.
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal districts (often named as counties), improvement districts, and special areas), Métis settlements, and Indian ...
Of Alberta's 341 municipalities, 253 of them are urban municipalities (19 cities, 105 towns, 78 villages and 51 summer villages), 6 are specialized municipalities, 73 are rural municipalities (63 municipal districts, 7 improvement districts and 3 special areas) and 8 are Metis settlements. [2]
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]
INAC lists the reserve in Alberta and the band headquartered in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories: Kapawe'no First Nation 150B [72] Kapawe'no: Woods Cree: Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council: 8: 29.6 73.1: 154: 115: 33.9%: Kapawe'no First Nation 150C [73] Kapawe'no: Woods Cree: Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council: 8: 21.0 51.9 ...
[3] Jacques Cartier was first to use the word "Canada" to refer not only to the village of Stadacona, but also to the neighbouring region and to the Saint-Lawrence River. In other Iroquoian languages, the words for "town" or "village" are similar: the Mohawk use kaná:ta', [4] [5] the Seneca iennekanandaa, and the Onondaga use ganataje. [6]
List of municipal amalgamations in Alberta; List of municipal districts in Alberta; List of former urban municipalities in Alberta; List of municipalities in Alberta; List of specialized municipalities in Alberta