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Towns with populations less than 1,000, whether their populations have declined below 1,000 or they were incorporated as towns prior to the minimum 1,000 population requirement, are permitted to retain town status. A total of 699 elected town officials (107 mayors and 592 councillors) [needs update] provide town governance throughout the ...
Some of Alberta's towns have never reached a population of 1,000 people, but were incorporated as towns before the current requirement to have a population of 1,000 or more. Alberta currently has a total of 107 towns, with a combined population totalling 466,470 as of 2019.
The Town of Strathcona incorporated as a city on March 15, 1907, and subsequently amalgamated with Edmonton on February 1, 1912. Fort McMurray was incorporated as a city on September 1, 1980, but reverted to its current urban service area form as a result of its amalgamation with Improvement District (I.D.)
[2] [3] These 19 cities include Lloydminster, of which a portion is located within the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan. [14] Alberta's largest city by population and land area is Calgary with 1,306,784 and 820.62 km 2 (316.84 sq mi), while Wetaskiwin is its smallest city by population with 12,594 and land area at 18.75 km 2 (7.24 sq mi). [3]
The City of Melville retains its city status despite dropping below 5,000 people in the 1990s. Kindersley has expressed an interest in applying for city status upon reaching the 5,000 milestone. [29] Saskatchewan's newest city is Warman, which changed from town to city status on October 24, 2012. [30] Saskatchewan has 16 cities.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Barrhead No. 11 had a population of 5,877 living in 2,199 of its 2,677 total private dwellings, a change of -6.5% from its 2016 population of 6,288.
Town 6,545 Y Edmonton: City 1,010,899 972,223 2019 Y Enoch Cree Nation 135: Indian reserve 1,825 N Fort Saskatchewan: City 27,088 26,942 2019 Y Gibbons: Town 3,218 N Golden Days: Summer village 248 N Itaska Beach: Summer village 30 N Kapasiwin: Summer village 24 N Lakeview: Summer village 29 N Leduc: City 34,094 33,032 2019 Y Leduc County ...
Population centres are not the same thing as urban municipalities. For example, the city of St. Albert is legally separate from Edmonton, but they are part of the same population centre. The term was introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area. [1]