Alberta Provincial Highway No. 779 is a highway in the province of
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
,
Canada
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. It runs south-north from
Highway 627 (Garden Valley Road) in
Parkland County
Parkland County is a municipal district in central Alberta, Canada. Located west of Edmonton in Census Division No. 11, its municipal office, Parkland County Centre, is located north of the Town of Stony Plain on Highway 779.
History
;20 ...
through the
Town of Stony Plain to
Highway 37 west of
Calahoo in
Sturgeon County
Sturgeon County is a municipal district the Edmonton Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. It is north of Edmonton and west of the North Saskatchewan River. Sturgeon County is located in Division No. 11 and was named for the Sturgeon River.
...
. It runs along the
Fifth Meridian for its entire length, which was surveyed as
114° Longitude in the
Dominion Land Survey
The Dominion Land Survey (DLS; french: links=no, arpentage des terres fédérales, ATF) is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile (2.6 km2) sections for agricultural and other purposes. It is based on the layout ...
, and used by the
Alberta Township System The Alberta Township System (ATS) is a land surveying system used in the Canadian province of Alberta and other parts of western Canada.
History and background
In principle there is a mathematical basis for the Alberta Township System (ATS) variant ...
. The highway is also known as Range Road 10 in the two counties and 48 Street within Stony Plain.
Major intersections
Starting from the south end of Highway 779:
References
779
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Year 779 ( DCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 779 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Eur ...
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