List of former urban municipalities in Alberta

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill (documentation) and Citation bot (documentation). (June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

The Province of Alberta currently has 255 urban municipalities including 19 cities, 105 towns, 80 villages and 51 summer villages.[1] In addition, there are 102 communities that previously held some form of urban municipality status. These include 2 former cities, 18 former towns, 2 former new towns, 81 former villages, and 1 former summer village. These communities no longer exist as independent urban municipalities due to amalgamation, annexation or dissolution.

## List

[edit]

Former urban
municipality  | Former
status  | Original
name  | Dissolution
date

|
|
|

Albert Park | Village |  | August 1, 1935[2]
Alderson | Village | Carlstadt | January 31, 1936[3]
Bellevue | Village |  | January 1, 1979[4]
Bellis | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Beverly | Town |  | December 30, 1961[6]
Black Diamond | Town  |  | January 1, 2023[7]
Blackie | Village |  | August 31, 1997[8]
Blairmore | Town |  | January 1, 1979[4]
Botha | Village  |  | September 1, 2017[9]
Bow City | Village |  | April 17, 1918[10]
Bowness | Town |  | August 15, 1964[11]
Burdett | Village |  | January 1, 2003[12]
Cadogan | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Cayley | Village |  | June 1, 1996[13]
Cereal | Village |  | January 1, 2021[14]
Chinook | Village |  | April 1, 1977[15]
Clairmont | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Cluny | Village |  | September 15, 1995[16]
Coleman | Town |  | January 1, 1979[4]
Commerce | Village | Coalgate | May 13, 1926[17]
Compeer | Village |  | December 31, 1936[18]
Craigmyle | Village |  | January 1, 1972[19]
Crescent Heights | Village |  | January 1, 1911[20]
Cynthia | New town |  | May 1, 1959[21]
Derwent | Village |  | September 1, 2010[22]
Dewberry | Village |  | January 1, 2021[23]
Diamond City | Town |  | June 30, 1937[24]
Drinnan | Village |  | April 1, 1957[25]
Dunmore | Village |  | February 4, 1919[26]
Eaglesham | Village |  | December 31, 1996[27]
East Calgary | Village |  | July 17, 1919[28]
Enchant | Village |  | February 1, 1945[29]
Entwistle | Village |  | December 31, 2000[30]
Erskine | Village |  | May 10, 1946[31]
Evansburg | Village |  | June 30, 1998[32]
Evarts | Village |  | May 27, 1916[33]
Ferintosh | Village |  | January 1, 2020[34]
Forest Lawn | Town |  | December 30, 1961[35]
Fort Assiniboine | Village |  | December 31, 1991[36]
Fort McMurray | City | McMurray | April 1, 1995[37]
Frank | Village |  | January 1, 1979[4]
Gadsby | Village |  | February 1, 2020[38]
Galahad | Village |  | January 1, 2016[39]
Gleichen | Town |  | March 31, 1998[40]
Grande Cache | Town |  | January 1, 2019[41]
Grand Centre | Town |  | October 1, 1996
Granum | Town |  | February 1, 2020[42]
Grassy Lake | Village |  | July 1, 1996[43]
Grouard | Village |  | January 15, 1944[44]
Hairy Hill | Village |  | December 31, 1996[45]
Hythe | Village |  | July 1, 2021[46]
Irvine | Town |  | December 31, 1996[47]
Islay | Village |  | March 15, 1944[48]
Jasper Place | Town | West Jasper Place | August 17, 1964[6]
Jenner | Village |  | June 25, 1943[49]
Kinuso | Village |  | September 1, 2009[50]
Lac La Biche | Town |  | August 1, 2007[51]
Langdon | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Lavoy | Village |  | April 30, 1999[52]
Lille | Village |  | 1919[53]
Lodgepole | New town |  | March 1, 1970[54]
Lundbreck | Village |  | April 30, 1906[55]
Minburn | Village |  | July 1, 2015[56]
Mirror | Village |  | January 1, 2004[57]
Monarch | Village |  | December 31, 1938[58]
Monitor | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Montgomery | Town |  | August 15, 1963[59]
Mountain View | Village |  | September 9, 1915[60]
New Norway | Village |  | November 1, 2012[61]
New Sarepta | Village |  | September 1, 2010[62]
Newcastle | Village |  | May 21, 1931[63]
North Edmonton | Village |  | July 22, 1912[64]
North Red Deer | Village |  | December 31, 1947[65]
Ohaton | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Pincher City | Village |  | May 3, 1932[66]
Plamondon | Village |  | May 1, 2002[67]
Port Cornwall | Village |  | September 11, 1917[68]
Radway | Village |  | December 31, 1996[69]
Ranfurly | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Retlaw | Village |  | March 1, 1939[70]
Richdale | Village |  | June 2, 1931[71]
Riverside | Village |  |
Rosebud | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Rouleauville | Village |  |
Rumsey | Village |  | April 1, 1995[36]
Sangudo | Village |  | September 16, 2007[51]
Stafford | Village |  | January 1, 1913[72]
Strathcona | City | South Edmonton | February 1, 1912[6]
Strome | Village |  | January 1, 2016[73]
Suffield | Village |  | January 1, 1930[74]
Swalwell | Village |  | January 1, 1946[5]
Thorhild | Village |  | April 1, 2009[50]
Tilley | Village |  | August 31, 2013[75]
Tollerton | Village |  | January 26, 1918[citation needed]
Torrington | Village |  | December 31, 1997[76]
Turner Valley | Town  |  | January 1, 2023[7]
Wabamun | Village |  | January 1, 2021[77]
Walsh | Village |  | May 4, 1925[78]
Wanham | Village |  | December 31, 1999[52]
Warspite | Village |  | June 1, 2000[30]
West Edmonton | Village | Calder | April 5, 1917[79]
White Gull | Summer village |  | January 1, 2003[80]
Wildwood | Village |  | December 31, 1990[81]
Willingdon | Village |  | September 1, 2017[82]

## See also

[edit]

* 2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec
* 2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal
* Amalgamation of the Halifax Regional Municipality
* Amalgamation of Toronto
* Amalgamation of Winnipeg
* Edmonton annexations
* List of communities in Alberta
* List of municipal amalgamations in Alberta
* List of municipal amalgamations in New Brunswick
* List of municipalities in Alberta
* Manitoba municipal amalgamations, 2015

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "2024 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. June 3, 2024. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
2. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1935 (Volume 31) - Disorganization of the Village of Albert Park, Approved". Government of Alberta. August 17, 1935. pp. 970–971. Retrieved July 20, 2015.[permanent dead link]
3. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1935 (Volume 31) - Village of Alderson, Dissolved". Government of Alberta. January 31, 1936. p. 65. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
4. ^ a b c d "Crowsnest Pass Municipal Unification Act, Chapter C-39, Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1980" (PDF). Government of the Province of Alberta, Queen's Printer. 1980. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Alberta Gazette, 1946". Government of Alberta. January 15, 1946. pp. 39–44. Retrieved September 27, 2015.[permanent dead link]
6. ^ a b c "Census History". City of Edmonton. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
7. ^ a b "O.C. 156/2022". Alberta King's Printer. Retrieved January 1, 2023.O.C.+156/2022&rft_id=https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2022/2022_156.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
8. ^ "Order in Council 343/97" (PDF). Alberta Queen's Printer. August 13, 1997. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
9. ^ "O.C. 239/2017". kings-printer.alberta.ca. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
10. ^ "This village is being disorganized". Forgotten Alberta. September 20, 2010. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
11. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1964 (Volume 60) - Order No. 1429". Government of Alberta. August 31, 1964. pp. 1862–1864. Retrieved July 13, 2015.[permanent dead link]
12. ^ "Order in Council 507/2002" (PDF). Alberta Queen's Printer. November 5, 2003. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
13. ^ "Order in Council 173/96" (PDF). Alberta Queen's Printer. April 24, 1996. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
14. ^ "O.C. 384/2020". Government of Alberta. December 9, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2021.O.C.+384/2020&rft.pub=Government+of+Alberta&rft.date=2020-12-09&rft_id=https://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2020/2020_384.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
15. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1977 (Volume 73) - Order in Council 299/77, Village of Chinook Dissolved". Government of Alberta. March 22, 1977. p. 899. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
16. ^ "Order in Council 343614/95" (PDF). Alberta Queen's Printer. September 6, 1995. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
17. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1926 (Volume 22) - Disorganization of the Village of Commerce". Government of Alberta. May 13, 1926. p. 348. Retrieved October 11, 2015.[permanent dead link]
18. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1936 (Volume 32) - Change in the Status of the Village of Compeer to that of a Hamlet, and the Lands Added to the Municipal District of Neutral Hills, No. 331". Government of Alberta. December 1, 1936. pp. 1281–1282. Retrieved October 11, 2015.[permanent dead link]
19. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1971 (Volume 67) - Order in Council 1876/71: Village of Craigmyle Dissolved". Government of Alberta. November 3, 1971. p. 2896. Retrieved October 11, 2015.[permanent dead link]
20. ^ "Statutes of the Province of Alberta Passed in the Second Session of the Second Legislative Assembly - Chapter 28. An Act to Amend the Acts and Ordinances relating to the City of Calgary and to Validate a Certain By-law of the said City". Government of Alberta. 1910. pp. 174–176. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
21. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1959 (Volume 55) - Order in Council 760/59: Dissolution of the Town of Cynthia". Government of Alberta. May 19, 1959. p. 911. Retrieved October 11, 2015.[permanent dead link]
22. ^ "Order in Council 229/2010". Alberta Queen's Printer. July 14, 2010. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
23. ^ "O.C. 385/2020". Government of Alberta. December 9, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2021.O.C.+385/2020&rft.pub=Government+of+Alberta&rft.date=2020-12-09&rft_id=https://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2020/2020_385.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
24. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1937 (Volume 33) - The Town of Diamond City Reverted to the Status of a Villages and the Said Village, Dissolved and Reverted to the Status of a Hamlet". Government of Alberta. June 16, 1937. p. 678. Retrieved October 11, 2015.[permanent dead link]
25. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1957 (Volume 53) - Order in Council 494-57: New Town of Hinton Established". Government of Alberta. March 27, 1957. pp. 626–627. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
26. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1919 (Volume 15) - Notice". Government of Alberta. February 4, 1919. p. 75. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
27. ^ http://municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/RMUN/0502/Birch_Hills_County_OC_458_96_1996_No6.pdf [bare URL PDF]
28. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1919 (Volume 15) - Disorganization of Village Municipality". Government of Alberta. July 17, 1919. p. 487\. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
29. ^ http://ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3071037 [dead link]
30. ^ a b "2000 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. December 2000. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
31. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1946". Government of Alberta. May 31, 1946. p. 528. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
32. ^ http://municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/HMLT/0105/Evansburg_Gaz_OC_222_1998_No1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
33. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1916 (Volume 12) - Notice". Government of Alberta. June 15, 1916. p. 340. Retrieved October 26, 2015.[permanent dead link]
34. ^ "O.C. 190/2019". Government of Alberta. October 8, 2019. Retrieved October 13, 2019.O.C.+190/2019&rft.pub=Government+of+Alberta&rft.date=2019-10-08&rft_id=http://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2019/2019_190.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
35. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3120274 [dead link]
36. ^ a b "Interim List of Changes to Municipal Boundaries, Status and Names: January 2, 1991 to January 1, 1996" (PDF). Statistics Canada. February 1997. pp. 244, 261. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
37. ^ "Location and History Profile – Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo". Alberta Municipal Affairs. March 11, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
38. ^ "O.C. 16/2020". Government of Alberta. January 28, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2020.O.C.+16/2020&rft.pub=Government+of+Alberta&rft.date=2020-01-28&rft_id=http://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2020/2020_016.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
39. ^ "O.c. 259/2015".
40. ^ "Order in Council 61/98" (PDF). Province of Alberta. February 25, 1998. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
41. ^ "Order in Council (O.C.) 361/2018". Government of Alberta. November 27, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
42. ^ "O.C. 17/2020". Government of Alberta. January 28, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2020.O.C.+17/2020&rft.pub=Government+of+Alberta&rft.date=2020-01-28&rft_id=http://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2020/2020_017.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
43. ^ http://municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/HMLT/0136/Grassy_Lake_OC_194_1996_No1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
44. ^ "The Alberta Gazette, 1944 (Volume 40) - Dissolution of the Village of Grouard". Government of Alberta. January 18, 1944. pp. 95–96. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
45. ^ http://municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/HMLT/0139/Village_of_Hairy_Hill_OC_521_96_1996_No2.pdf [bare URL PDF]
46. ^ "O.C. 168/2021". Government of Alberta. June 9, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.O.C.+168/2021&rft.pub=Government+of+Alberta&rft.date=2021-06-09&rft_id=https://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2021/2021_168.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
47. ^ http://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/gazette/1996/pdf/1231_i.pdf Page 2648
48. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3063407 [dead link]
49. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3062470 [dead link]
50. ^ a b "2009 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. December 1, 2009. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
51. ^ a b "2007 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. November 21, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
52. ^ a b "1999 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. December 1999. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
53. ^ "Footnotes for Table 6: Alberta (Division No. 9)". 1961 Census of Canada. Series 1.1: Historical, 1901–1961. Vol. I: Population. Ottawa: Dominion Bureau of Statistics. March 8, 1963. p. 6.123. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
54. ^ http://municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/HMLT/0764/Lodgepole_Gaz_OC_325_70_1970_No1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
55. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3264338 [dead link]
56. ^ "2015 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. October 14, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
57. ^ "2004 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. January 2004. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
58. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3070674 [dead link]
59. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3123095 [dead link]
60. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3261707 [dead link]
61. ^ "2012 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. November 28, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
62. ^ "2010 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. December 20, 2010. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
63. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3092130 [dead link]
64. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3258230 [dead link]
65. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3075116 [dead link]
66. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3093543 [dead link]
67. ^ "2002 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. November 2002. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
68. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3279826 [dead link]
69. ^ http://municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/HMLT/0259/Radway_Gaz_OC_499-96_1996_No1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
70. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3057261 [dead link]
71. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3092129 [dead link]
72. ^ http://ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=2900313 [dead link]
73. ^ "O.c. 260/2015".
74. ^ http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3091077 [dead link]
75. ^ "2013 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. December 31, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
76. ^ http://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/gazette/1998/pdf/0115_i.pdf Page 3
77. ^ "O.C. 386/2020". Government of Alberta. December 9, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2021.O.C.+386/2020&rft.pub=Government+of+Alberta&rft.date=2020-12-09&rft_id=https://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Orders/Orders_in_Council/2020/2020_386.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+former+urban+municipalities+in+Alberta" class="Z3988">
78. ^ http://ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3280438 [dead link]
79. ^ "Statutes of the Province of Alberta Passed in the Fifth Session of the Third Legislative Assembly - Chapter 46. An Act to amend The Edmonton Charter and confirm Certain By-laws of the City of Edmonton". Government of Alberta. 1917. pp. 250, 258. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
80. ^ "2003 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. December 2003. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
81. ^ http://www.municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/RMUN/0482/Yelllowhead_County_Hamlet_of_Wildwood_MO_371_91_1991_No16.pdf [bare URL PDF]
82. ^ "O.C. 240/2017". Government of Alberta. June 12, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017.

*[O.C.]: Order in Council