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Rochfort Bridge is a
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in
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, Canada within Lac Ste. Anne County. It is located approximately northwest of
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and east of
Mayerthorpe Mayerthorpe is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton at the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail). The town is surrounded by Lac Ste. Anne County and is in Alberta's Census Division No ...
. Rochfort Bridge is named for Cooper (Cowper) Rochfort, who with his associate, Percy Michaelson, homesteaded on the Paddle River at the point where the old trail from Lac Ste. Anne to the MacLeod River crossed the Paddle River. One of North America’s longest wooden train trestles is located just east of the hamlet, which crosses over the
Paddle River The Paddle River is a short river in northern Alberta, Canada. Known as Pimiskāw sīpiy (Paddle River) by the Cree, the river was named because of its slow speed. During the fur trade era, a canoe could be easily ''paddled'' up the river, in co ...
valley and Highway 43.


History

A farm near Rochfort Bridge and Mayerthorpe was the site of the Mayerthorpe tragedy on March 3, 2005, in which four officers of the
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were shot and killed in a raid on a marijuana drug operation. On December 5, 2019, a fire broke out in a home inside the hamlet. In the early morning hours of December 6, fire crews announced a body had been discovered, and later on after a more extensive search, four more bodies had been discovered. Two adults, Marvin and Janet Gibbs, and their three grandchildren all were killed in the fire.


Demographics

The population of Rochfort Bridge according to the 2008 municipal census conducted by Lac Ste. Anne County is 71.


Notable people

* Peter Trynchy – Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MLA (1971-2001) and cabinet minister


See also

*
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* List of hamlets in Alberta


References

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