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Alberta's 1 to 216 series of provincial highways are Alberta's main highways. They are numbered from 1 to 100, with the exception of the ring roads around Calgary and Edmonton, which are numbered 201 and 216 respectively. The numbers applied to these highways are derived from compounding the assigned numbers of the core north–south and east ...
By 1928, the year a gravel road stretched from Edmonton to the United States border, Alberta's provincial highway network comprised 2,310 km (1,440 mi). [9] Prior to 1973, the expanding highway system comprised one-digit and two-digit highways, with some numbers having letter suffixes (e.g., Highway 1X, Highway 26A). [10]
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.
All provincial highways in Alberta are 'Primary Highways'. They are divided into two series, and sub-series. 1-216 Series — core highway network Hwy 1-100 — intercity (Hwy 100 is unmarked, ex:Hwy 2) Hwy 201, 216 — orbital routes (ex:Hwy 216) 500-986 Series — local highways Hwy 500-699 — west-east routes (ex:Hwy 501)
Combined, Alberta has 73 rural municipalities comprising 63 municipal districts, 7 improvement districts and 3 special areas. [2] The 73 rural municipalities have a total population of 481,120, a total land area of 468,246.83 km 2 (180,791.11 sq mi). [3][f] These totals represent 11% of Alberta's population yet 73.8% of its land area.
Alberta has 105 towns that had a cumulative population of 455,053 and an average population of 4,293 in the 2016 Canadian Census. [2] Alberta's largest and smallest towns are Okotoks and Stavely with populations of 28,881 and 541 respectively. [2]
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 reserves; and. Indian settlements.
Originally numbered as Highway 1, Highway 2 is the oldest major highway in Alberta and the first to stretch north into the Peace Country. It was historically known as the Calgary and Edmonton Trail, Sunshine Trail, and the Blue Trail. Major changes include the construction of a divided expressway between Calgary and Edmonton in the 1960s ...