Madden is a
hamlet
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in southern
Alberta
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, Canada, under the jurisdiction of
Rocky View County
Rocky View County is a municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada that is named for its views of the nearby Rocky Mountains to the west. It surrounds most of Calgary, forming the city's northern boundary and most of the city's western and e ...
.
Madden is located approximately north of
Downtown Calgary on
Highway 574, west of the Town of
Crossfield on
Highway 2A and west of
Highway 2 (the
Calgary-Edmonton Corridor).
The hamlet was named after Bernard Madden, an early pioneer and a prominent rancher who arrived in the area in 1876. The post office was opened on May 1, 1931.
Madden has a community hall and
curling
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rink, meat processor, campground, fire station and an 18-hole golf course. Madden has also been host to a few film crews, including the 2008 production ''Mayerthorpe'' (seen on
CTV), which was shot at various locations near the hamlet.
Madden was once located on a
Canadian Pacific Railway spur from Collicutt to
Cremona and had two elevators. The rail grade can still be seen as it goes west from the hamlet through the Ag Society grounds and east towards Nier Lakes.
Climate
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada, Madden had a population of 10 living in 6 of its 10 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 28. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
population of Madden according to the
2018 municipal census conducted by Rocky View County is 26,
an increase from its 2013 municipal census population count of 21.
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
Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1992). ''Place Names of Alberta – Volume II, Southern Alberta'', University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta.
Read, Tracey (1983).
Acres and Empires – A History of the Municipal District of Rocky View', Calgary, Alberta.
Calgary Region
Designated places in Alberta
Hamlets in Alberta
Rocky View County
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