Improvement District No. 12 (Jasper National Park), or Improvement District No. 12, is an improvement district in

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, Canada. Coextensive with

Jasper National Park Jasper National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada. It is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains spanning . It was established as a national park in 1930 and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. Its locatio ...

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, the improvement district is the municipality that provides local government for the portion of the park outside the Municipality of

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History

Improvement District (I.D.) No. 12 was originally formed as I.D. No. 80 on April 1, 1945, through the amalgamation of I.D. Nos. 379, 438, 439, 469, 499, 500, and 530, as well as portions of I.D. Nos. 348, 378, 436, 437, 466, 468, 498, 528, 529, and 558. I.D. No. 80 was renumbered to I.D. No. 12 on January 1, 1969. A second improvement district, Jasper Improvement District, was separated from I.D. No. 12 on August 31, 1995. Jasper Improvement District subsequently became a specialized municipality named the Municipality of

on July 20, 2001.

Geography

Communities and localities

There are no

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located within Improvement District No. 12. The following localities are located within Improvement District No. 12. ;Localities *Athabasca Falls *Devona *East Gate Trailers *Lake Edith *Miette *

Miette Hot Springs Miette Hot Springs are commercially developed hot springs located in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, near Jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases,Kostov, R. ...

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*Shale Banks *Snaring *Sunwapta

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Improvement District No. 12 had a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 53. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Improvement District No. 12 had a population of 53 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 34. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

Government

Improvement District No. 12 is administered by

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