Lac Ste. Anne County is a
municipal district in central
Alberta, Canada.
It is located in
Census Division 13, north west of
Edmonton.
Highway 43 stretches across this county. Its
municipal office is located in the
Hamlet of Sangudo.
The county was named after
Lac Ste. Anne, which in turn was named for
Saint Anne
According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come o ...
.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by Lac Ste. Anne County.
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Cities
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Towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
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Mayerthorpe
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Onoway
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Villages
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Alberta Beach
Alberta Beach is a village in central Alberta, Canada, west of Edmonton. It is located on the southeast shore of Lac Ste. Anne, approximately west of Highway 43 and north of Highway 633.
Alberta Beach's economy it is centred on tourism and r ...
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Summer villages
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Birch Cove
Birch Cove is a summer village in Alberta, Canada. It is located between Highway 33 and Lac la Nonne, northwest of Edmonton.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Birch Cove had ...
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Castle Island
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Nakamun Park
Nakamun Park is a summer village in Alberta, Canada. It is located on the southern shore of Nakamun Lake, west of Highway 33 and north of Onoway.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Villa ...
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Ross Haven
Ross Haven is a summer village in Alberta, Canada. It is located on the northern shore of Lac Ste. Anne, south of Highway 43.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Ross Haven had ...
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Silver Sands
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South View
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Sunrise Beach
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Sunset Point
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Val Quentin
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West Cove
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Yellowstone
The following
hamlets are located within Lac Ste. Anne County.
[
* Hamlets
** Cherhill
**]Glenevis
Glenevis is a hamlet (place), hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Lac Ste. Anne County. It is located on Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43, approximately northwest of Edmonton.
The community takes its name from Glennevis, in Nova Scotia.
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**Green Court
Greencourt is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Lac Ste. Anne County. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 18, approximately northwest of Edmonton.
The community takes its name from Greencourt, England.
His ...
**Gunn Gunn may refer to:
Places
* Gunn City, Missouri, a village
* Gunn, Northern Territory, outer suburb of Darwin
* Gunn, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
* Gunn Valley, a mountain valley in British Columbia, Canada
* Gun Lake (British Columbia), a Canadi ...
** Rich Valley
** Rochfort Bridge
**Sangudo
Sangudo is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Lac Ste. Anne County. It is located on Highway 43 and the Pembina River, approximately northwest of Edmonton.
Sangudo was formerly incorporated as a village on April 12, 1937, but dissolved and rev ...
(location of municipal office)
The following localities are located within Lac Ste. Anne County.
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
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, Lac Ste. Anne County had a population of 10,832 living in 4,373 of its 5,566 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 10,899. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac Ste. Anne County had a population of 10,899 living in 4,346 of its 5,385 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 10,260. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Attractions
The municipality of Lac Ste. Anne maintains the Lessard Lake Campground, the Lessard Lake Outdoor Ed Centre, the Riverside Campground, and the Paddle River Dam Campground.
Many summer villages are established, especially on lake shores (such as
Lac Ste. Anne,
Lac la Nonne
Lac la Nonne is a lake in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located between Lac Ste. Anne County and the County of Barrhead No. 11, 85 km north-west from Edmonton, east of the Grizzly Trail.
The lake is located within the Athabasca River ba ...
, Nakamun Lake, and Lake Isle).
Protected and recreational areas in the county include ''Lily Lake Provincial Natural Area'', ''Pembina River Provincial Natural Area'', ''Majeau Lake Provincial Natural Area'' (with two campgrounds), ''Paddle River Dam'' Picnic Site, ''Park Court Provincial Natural Area'', ''Lily Lake Provincial Natural Area'' and ''Prefontaine and Brock Lake Provincial Natural Area''.
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Lac Ste. Anne Mission
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Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage
See also
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List of communities in Alberta
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List of municipal districts in Alberta
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc. ...
References
External links
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Municipal districts in Alberta