McLennan is a town in

northern Alberta Northern Alberta is a geographic region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. 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. It is approximately north of

High Prairie High Prairie is a town in northern Alberta, Canada within Big Lakes County. It is located at the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 749, approximately northeast of Valleyview and west of Slave Lake. History Describes the nature of the ...

on Highway 2. Named after John K. McLennan, vice president of the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway on what used to be a community known as Round Lake, the town lies on the southern shore of Kimiwan Lake (the

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word for rain), and northwest of Winagami Lake. The large concentration of

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and

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and McLennan's informal nickname as the 'Bird Capital of Canada' is due to the nearby lakes creating an attraction for

migratory birds Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds. Many species of bird migrate. Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting b ...

. Winagami Lake Provincial Park is located southeast of McLennan. Its Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, dedicated to

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, and built in 1947 is the archiepiscopal see of the Metropolitan

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Grouard–McLennan The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Grouard–McLennan ( la, Archidioecesis Gruardensis–McLennanpolitana) is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada and the metropolitan see of an ecclesiastical province for the Roman Catholic ...

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

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, the Town of McLennan had a population of 695 living in 255 of its 322 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 701. 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 McLennan recorded a population of 701 living in 256 of its 296 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 809. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. The population of the Town of McLennan according to its 2017 municipal census is 791.

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* {{Alberta Regions Upper Peace 1944 establishments in Alberta Towns in Alberta

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