Calmar is a town in central

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, Canada. It is located in

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, on Highway 39, southwest from

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. It was named in 1900 for

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, Sweden, the home town of its first postmaster, C. J. Blomquist.

Geography

Climate

Calmar experiences a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

(Köppen Dfb).

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, the Town of Calmar had a population of 2,183 living in 893 of its 937 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,228. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Calmar recorded a population of 2,228 living in 842 of its 861 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 1,970. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. The population of the Town of Calmar according to its 2014 municipal census is 2,101, a change from its 2009 municipal census population of 2,033.

Economy

The Town of Calmar is a member of the

Leduc-Nisku Economic Development Association The Leduc-Nisku Economic Development Association (EDA) was an economic development partnership founded in 1984 that marketed Alberta's International Region. It dissolved at the end of 2019. The partnership included the founding members of Leduc ...

, an economic development partnership that markets Alberta's International Region in proximity to the

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