Elmworth is a
hamlet
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in
northern Alberta
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An informally defined cultural region, the boundaries of Northern Alberta are not fixed. Under some schemes, the region encompasses everything north of the cen ...
, Canada within the
County of Grande Prairie No. 1
The County of Grande Prairie No. 1 is a municipal district in northwestern Alberta, Canada in Census Division No. 19.
It is bounded on the south by the Wapiti River, on the east by the Smoky River and on the west by the province of British ...
. It is located on
Highway 722 north of the
Wapiti River
The Wapiti River is a river in eastern British Columbia and western Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Smoky River, located in the southern area of the Peace River Basin.
Wapiti is named after the Cree word for elk (''waapiti'').
...
and east of the
British Columbia
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border. It has an elevation of . The Elmworth
natural gas
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field stretches west and south of the hamlet.
The hamlet is located in
census division No. 19 and in the federal riding of
Peace River
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. The hamlet of Elmworth formed around Elmworth School District 3791, established in March 1919 and named after Elmworth, New Brunswick, home of settler Franklin Brewer.
Classes began in a borrowed log cabin until the school could be built on the SE quarter of section 16, township 70, range 11, west of the 6th meridian.
On 1 December 1920 a post office was opened in the Brewer home,
and in 1927, the Brewers decided to add a country store to their services. They built a new home, store and post office across from the school on the NW quarter of section 9. The store also contained the government telephone.
These two buildings formed the nucleus of the hamlet of Elmworth until the Elmworth Hall was added in 1947, a Community Church in 1948, and the Elmworth Cemetery soon after.
Climate
Demographics
Elmworth recorded a population of 8 in the
1981 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada.
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Amenities
The hamlet is served by a school, the Elmworth School, administered by the ''Peace Wapiti School Division''. The K-9 school has about 80 students.
A curling club was established in the community in 1963
See also
*List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of Local government in Canada, local governments – urban municipalities (including List of cities in Alberta, cities, List of towns in Alberta, towns, List of villages in Alberta, vil ...
* List of hamlets in Alberta
References
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County of Grande Prairie No. 1
Hamlets in Alberta