Carmangay ( ) is a village in
southern Alberta
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and south of
Calgary
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, along the
Canadian Pacific Railway
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, east of
Highway 23. It takes its name from C.W. Carman, who bought at $3.50 per acre to grow wheat in 1904, and his wife, Gertrude Gay.
History
Carmangay is the site of the Carmangay Tipi Rings, an archeological
tipi ring
Tipi rings are circular patterns of stones left from an encampment of Post-Archaic, protohistoric and historic Native Americans.Cassells, Steve. (1997). ''The Archaeology of Colorado.'' Boulder: Johnson Books. pp. 224-227. . They are found primar ...
site. The site does not have much archaeological material, though there has been enough to date it to 200–1700 AD.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, the Village of Carmangay had a population of 269 living in 127 of its 147 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 242. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
The population of the Village Carmangay of according to its
2017 municipal census is 250,
a change of from its
2013 municipal census population of 262.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Carmangay recorded a population of 242 living in 121 of its 135 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 367. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Wind farm
In 2013,
Enbridge
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and
EDF EDF may refer to:
Organisations
* Eclaireurs de France, a French Scouting association
* Education for Development Foundation, a Thai charity
* Électricité de France, a French energy company
** EDF Energy, their British subsidiary
** EDF Luminus, ...
began construction on a 300 MW wind farm east of the Village of Carmangay. 166 wind turbines were constructed at the site, with over 300 workers on the project. The
Blackspring Ridge Wind Project was completed in May 2014.
See also
*
List of communities in Alberta
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List of villages in Alberta
A village is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta villages are created when communities with populations of at least 300 people, where a majority of their buildings are on parcels of land smaller ...
References
External links
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{{Subdivisions of Alberta, villages=yes
1910 establishments in Alberta
Villages in Alberta
Vulcan County
Populated places established in 1936