Wembley is a town in
northern Alberta
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, Canada. It is approximately west 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 ...
at the junction of
Highway 43 and
Highway 724.
History
Land around Wembley was surveyed for homesteads in 1909, settlers beginning to arrive in 1910. The railroad survey was completed from Grande Prairie to Pouce Coupe in 1916 and the townsite of Wembley was surveyed in 1923. The railway arrived in 1924.
The present town-site is four and a half miles south of the original hamlet of Lake Saskatoon and when the railway arrived in 1924 many buildings were hauled over the four and one half miles of snow-covered trails from Lake Saskatoon to their new foundations in Wembley.
The name Wembley was chosen by the Lake Saskatoon Board of Trade at the time of the British Empire Exposition at Wembley in England.
The post office opened in November 1924, the first postmaster being RB Sinclair.
Wembley reached village status January 3, 1928
and
town status August 1, 1980.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, the Town of Wembley had a population of 1,432 living in 550 of its 616 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,516. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Wembley recorded a population of 1,516 living in 565 of its 618 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 1,383. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
The Town of Wembley's 2012 municipal census counted a population of 1,410.
See also
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List of communities in Alberta
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List of towns in Alberta
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References
External links
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{{Alberta Regions Upper Peace
1928 establishments in Alberta
Towns in Alberta