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English: Automatically generated series of street maps depicting Alberta urban communities. Municipal boundaries: AltaLIS open data accessed May 25, 2019. Road network: Statistics Canada NRN 2018.
St. Albert is a city in Alberta, Canada, located on the Sturgeon River, northwest of the City of Edmonton, the provincial capital.It was originally settled as a Métis community, and is now the second-largest city in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.
This core includes the cities of Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan and St. Albert, the Sherwood Park portion of Strathcona County, and portions of Parkland County and Sturgeon County. [176] The Edmonton population centre, the fifth-largest in Canada, had a population of 960,015 in 2011, an 11.3 percent increase over its 2006 population of 862,544. [177]
It is located adjacent to the northwest corner of Edmonton and the southwest corner of St. Albert. Its primary inflow is the Sturgeon River . The lake sits on the sands and gravels of the Empress Formation , an aquifer 30 m (98 ft) below its surface that was laid down by retreating glacial meltwaters.
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 633, commonly referred to as Highway 633, is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada.It runs west–east from Highway 757 just north of Highway 16 to Highway 2 (St. Albert Trail) in St. Albert. [1]
St. Albert—Sturgeon River is a future federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada. [2] Geography. Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the ...
Albert Lacombe, a Catholic priest who arrived in 1852, [2] left Lac Ste. Anne in 1861 to build a new mission at St. Albert. [2] When he left the mission of Lac Ste. Anne it was almost deserted by pastors and followers of the church. All that was left were a few families, the church, the rectory and the Grey Nuns' residence.
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. [2] Located in Western Canada, the province has an area of 661,190 km 2 (255,290 sq mi) and is bounded to the south by the United States state of Montana along 49° north for 298 km (185 mi); to the east at 110° west by the province of Saskatchewan for 1,223 km (760 mi); and at 60° north the Northwest Territories for 644 km ...