Bluesky is a
hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
in
Alberta
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, Canada within the
Municipal District of Fairview No. 136
The Municipal District of Fairview No. 136 is a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district (MD) in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It is located in Division No. 19, Alberta, Census Division 19.
The district stretches along the ...
. It is located along
Highway 2, east of
Fairview in
northern Alberta
Northern Alberta is a geographic region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.
An informally defined cultural region, the boundaries of Northern Alberta are not fixed. Under some schemes, the region encompasses everything north of the cen ...
.
Heavy oil was discovered in a well east of the hamlet in 1952, in a
geological formation
A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics ( lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exp ...
named after the community,
Bluesky Formation
The Bluesky Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Lower Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the hamlet of Bluesky, and was first described in Shell's ''Bluesky No. 1'' well by Badgley in 1952.
Lithology ...
.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada, Bluesky had a population of 113 living in 53 of its 62 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 127. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
As a designated place in the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Bluesky had a population of 127 living in 60 of its 65 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 164. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Events
*Bluefest
Notable residents
*
Hubert Brooks
Hubert Brooks MC (December 29, 1921 – February 1, 1984) was a Canadian RCAF officer and ice hockey player who won a gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. He joined the RCAF in 1940 and served during World War II, being sho ...
, RCAF officer and Olympic gold medalist
See also
*
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 ...
*
List of designated places in Alberta
A designated place is a type of geographic unit used by Statistics Canada to disseminate census data. It is usually "a small community that does not meet the criteria used to define incorporated municipalities or Statistics Canada population ce ...
*
List of hamlets in Alberta
References
Municipal District of Fairview No. 136
Hamlets in Alberta
Designated places in Alberta
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