The Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133 is a
municipal district
A municipal district is an administrative entity comprising a clearly-defined territory and its population. It can refer to a city, a town, a village, a small grouping of them, or a rural area.
Brazil
In Brazil, municipal districts are, in genera ...
(MD) in
northwest
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Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
, Canada, north of
Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie is a city in northwest Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), a ...
. Located in the
Upper Peace Region, its
municipal office is located in the
Town of Spirit River. With an area of , it is the smallest municipal district in Alberta.
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History
The MD of Spirit River No. 133 was incorporated in 1916.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by the MD of Spirit River No. 133.
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Cities
*none
;
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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Spirit River
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Villages
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Rycroft
;
Summer villages
*none
The following
hamlets are located within the MD of Spirit River No. 133.
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; Hamlets
*none
The following localities are located within the MD of Spirit River No. 133.]
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 ...
, the MD of Spirit River No. 133 had a population of 649 living in 273 of its 315 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 700. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
*List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal district ...
*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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{{Alberta Regions Upper Peace
Spirit River
1916 establishments in Alberta