Alix is a village in
central Alberta
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Central Alberta is the most densely populated rural area in the province. Agriculture and energy are important to the area's economy.
Geography
Central Alberta is bordered ...
, Canada that is northeast of
Red Deer
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. Its village mascot is the Alix-Gator, who is featured prominently on many signs and businesses.
Originally, the settlement was called ''Toddsville'' after Joseph Todd. When the settlement was incorporated on June 3, 1907, it was named after Alexia Westhead, the first white woman settler of the community. (Alix was her nickname.) The first mayor of Alix was Robert F. Sanderson, who also owned and ran the general store.
Alix Westhead was friends with Irene Marryat and invited her to come for a visit in 1896. After meeting local farmer/Oxford graduate Walter Parlby, Irene became Mrs. Parlby and Alix became her new home.
Irene Parlby
Mary Irene Parlby ( Marryat; 9 January 186812 July 1965) was a Canadian women's farm leader, activist and politician. She served as Minister without portfolio in the Cabinet of Alberta from 1921 to 1935, working to implement social reforms th ...
was later one of the "Famous Five."
Irene Parlby's public life may be said to have begun in 1913 when she was chosen as secretary of the Alix Country Women's Club. Her public role greatly expanded when she was elected President of the
United Farmers of Alberta
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's (UFA) Women's Auxiliary. She was the local MLA from 1921 to 1935. Her political life reached its greatest point when she was appointed a cabinet minister when the UFA formed the government of Alberta in 1921, a position she held for 14 years.
She was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Alberta in 1935. In 2009, after their deaths Parlby and the other members of the Famous Five were appointed honorary senators.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada, the Village of Alix had a population of 774 living in 343 of its 385 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 734. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Alix recorded a population of 734 living in 343 of its 385 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 830. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
See also
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List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of Local government in Canada, local governments – urban municipalities (including List of cities in Alberta, cities, List of towns in Alberta, towns, List of villages in Alberta, vil ...
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List of villages in Alberta
References
External links
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1907 establishments in Alberta
Villages in Alberta