Kirriemuir is

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in east-

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, Canada within

Special Area No. 4 Special Area No. 4 is a Special Areas Board, special area in Central Alberta, central Alberta, Canada. It is a rural municipality similar to a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district; however, the elected council is overseen b ...

. It is located on

Highway 12 A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...

, approximately west of

Altario Altario is a hamlet (place), hamlet in east-central Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 4. It is located on Alberta Highway 899, Highway 899 just north of Alberta Highway 12, Highway 12, approximately east of Kirriemuir, Alberta, Kirriemuir ...

. It has an elevation of . Kirriemuir has a hall, a small general store with a post office and gas station, a playground, and two ball diamonds. The hamlet draws children from the greater area to participate on its softball teams during the summer months. One of the more popular events each year is the annual discing

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, which is held at the Kirriemuir Hall. An older

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remains standing at the edge of the community and it is still in use, but by private owners as the railroad tracks have long since been removed. The hamlet was named after

Kirriemuir Kirriemuir ( , ; ), sometimes called Kirrie or the ''Wee Red Toon'', is a burgh in Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom. The playwright J. M. Barrie was born and buried here and a statue of Peter Pan is in the town square. History Some of th ...

in Scotland.

Demographics

Kirriemuir recorded a population of 28 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by

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Hamlets in Alberta Special Area No. 4 {{CentralAlberta-geo-stub

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