Clyde is a village in northern
Alberta
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, Canada. It is located north of
Edmonton
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and east of
Westlock
Westlock is a town in central Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1913, the town is primarily an agricultural, business, and government administration centre serving communities and rural areas within surrounding Westlock County.
Geography
Westlock i ...
, near the junction of
Highway 18 and
Highway 2.
It was incorporated in 1914 and named after George D. Clyde, a local entrepreneur and the community's first postmaster.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, the Village of Clyde had a population of 415 living in 178 of its 197 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 430. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Clyde recorded a population of 430 living in 179 of its 198 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 503. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Education
The village is within the
Pembina Hills Public Schools
The Pembina Hills School Division, (formerly known as Pembina Hills Regional Division No. 7 and Pembina Hills Public Schools) is a school division headquartered in Barrhead, Alberta.
The division, with 16 schools having a total of about 3,700 st ...
, which formed in 1995 as a merger of three school districts.
See also
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List of communities in Alberta
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List of villages in Alberta
A village is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta villages are created when communities with populations of at least 300 people, where a majority of their buildings are on parcels of land smaller ...
References
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1914 establishments in Alberta
Villages in Alberta
Westlock County