Hoselaw is an
unincorporated community
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in northeast
Alberta
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, Canada. The community was named for
Loch Hoselaw
''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch.
In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling ...
in
Roxburghshire
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,
Scotland
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.
Hoselaw is administered by the
Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87. Hoselaw is also the name of a lake in Alberta.
References
Localities in the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87
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