Orion is a
hamlet
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in
Alberta
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, Canada within the
County of Forty Mile No. 8
The County of Forty Mile No. 8 is a municipal district in south eastern Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 1, southwest of Medicine Hat. Its municipal office is located in the Village of Foremost.
Geography Communities and ...
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The hamlet is located approximately south of
Medicine Hat
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along
Highway 61.
Demographics
Orion recorded a population of 11 in the
1991 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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Services
The hamlet has a grocery store
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, a post office
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, a gas station
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Gasolin ...
/hardware store
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, a newly built church
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* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
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and many remaining facades of past businesses. As of August 2020 there is no longer a gas station/hardware store.
See also
*List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal districts ...
*List of hamlets in Alberta
Hamlets in the province of Alberta, Canada, are unincorporated communities administered by, and within the boundaries of, specialized municipalities or rural municipalities ( municipal districts, improvement districts and special areas). The ...
* List of ghost towns in Alberta
References
County of Forty Mile No. 8
Ghost towns in Alberta
Hamlets in Alberta
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