Area codes 587, 825, and 368 are telephone

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s in the

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(NANP) for the entire Canadian province of

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. They form an overlay with

area code 403 Area code 403 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of Alberta. The numbering plan area encompasses the southern third of the province, which includes the Calgary area. This numbering plan a ...

of southern Alberta, and northern Alberta's

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. The province-wide overlay complex made

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mandatory throughout the province.

History

Prior to 1997, numbering plan area 403 comprised Alberta,

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and the

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, as well as a very small western portion of what is today

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(which split off from the Northwest Territories on 1 April 1999). In 1997, use of area code 403 was restricted to Alberta, with the territories receiving new

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. In January 1999, the province was divided into two numbering plan areas. The northern two thirds of Alberta, including

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, received area code 780, while leaving 403 to serve

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and southern Alberta. The projected

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s for area codes 403 and 780 were March and October 2009, respectively. In 1997, two area codes, 587 and 825, were reserved by

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for Alberta. The first of the new area codes, 587, entered service on September 19, 2008, as an overlay for the entire province. As a preliminary step, ten-digit dialling was introduced across the province on an optional basis on June 23. This became mandatory on September 12. On September 20,

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began allocating telephone numbers starting in area code 587 in the Calgary area. An overlay was chosen rather than a splitting 403 or 780, which would have resulted in subscribers in portions of Alberta to change their telephone numbers for the second time in a decade. A similar step had been taken a year earlier in

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, when

area code 778 Area codes 778, 236, 672, and 257 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of British Columbia. They form an overlay complex with area code 604, which serves only a small southwestern section, ...

was converted into an overlay complex for the entire province. On April 9, 2016, the province was overlaid with an additional area code, 825. As of January 21, 2022, the province is additionally overlaid with area code 368. Area code 568 is reserved as the sixth area code for the province since November 2022.

Service area and central office codes

* Airdrie (587)-236 254 360 600 602 651 775 852 * Banff (587)-222 653 720 883 907 *

Blackfalds Blackfalds is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located along Highway 2A 13.5 km north of Red Deer. The town's name, Waghorn (for Walter Waghorn, post master), changed in 1903 to Blackfalds, after Blackfalds, a Scottish hamlet. Dem ...

(587)-621 * Bonnyville (587)-201 398 721 792 *

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(587)-263 270 613 994 *

(587)-215 216 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 274 284 291 293 296 315 316 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 358 387 390 391 392 393 403 430 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 441 443 445 451 470 471 472 475 476 480 481 482 483 496 500 533 534 535 538 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 595 619 620 624 625 700 702 703 707 716 717 718 719 747 755 774 776 777 779 794 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 839 845 846 856 880 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 901 902 903 904 905 917 939 944 945 946 947 948 949 952 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968 969 970 971 972 973 975 976 977 978 997 998 999 (825)-207 210 252 253 256 408 417 509 580 710 712 800 910 980 994 999 * Canmore (587)-238 361 654 722 807 * Camrose (587)-322 386 614 753 769 *

Carstairs Carstairs (, Scottish Gaelic: ''Caisteal Tarrais'') is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Carstairs is located east of the county town of Lanark and the West Coast Main Line runs through the village. The village is served by Carstairs r ...

(587)-367 655 * Castor (587)-726 *

Claresholm Claresholm is a town located within southern Alberta, Canada. It is located on Highway 2, approximately northwest of the City of Lethbridge and south of the City of Calgary. History The location was originally a watering stop for steam engin ...

(587)-278 417 (825)-807 * Cochrane (587)-239 362 493 *

Coronation A coronation ceremony marks the formal investiture of a monarch with regal power using a crown. In addition to the crowning, this ceremony may include the presentation of other items of regalia, and other rituals such as the taking of special v ...

(587)-219 * Cowley (587)-221 592 *

Crowsnest Pass Crowsnest Pass (sometimes referred to as Crow's Nest Pass, ) is a low mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border. Geography The pass is located in southeast British Columbia an ...

(587)-562 563 *

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(587) 255 * Drayton Valley (587)-277 464 673 *

Drumheller Drumheller is a town on the Red Deer River in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Calgary and south of Stettler. The Drumheller portion of the Red Deer River valley, often referred to as Dinosaur Vall ...

(587)-419 795 (825)-798 *

(587)-334 335 336 337 338 340 341 346 357 372 384 385 400 401 402 404 405 407 408 409 410 412 413 414 415 416 442 446 454 455 458 459 460 462 463 469 473 487 488 489 490 501 520 521 523 524 525 526 532 545 557 588 589 590 591 592 594 596 597 598 599 635 686 687 688 689 701 708 709 710 712 754 756 758 759 760 773 778 781 782 783 784 785 786 855 873 879 881 882 920 921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 936 937 938 982 983 984 985 986 987 988 989 990 991 (825)-461 512 976 *

Fort McMurray Fort McMurray ( ) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significa ...

(587)-241 258 275 276 450 452 477 536 537 539 543 601 604 644 645 646 674 690 723 826 884 919 941 960 *

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) ...

(587)-202 243 259 297 298 299 343 348 495 726 752 771 803 * Hay Lakes (587)-593 *

High River High River is a town within the Calgary Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. It is approximately south of Calgary, at the junction of Alberta Highways 2 and 23. High River had a population of 14,324 in 2021. History The community takes ...

(587)-208 244 363 656 *

Jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to ...

(587)- 347 870 * Lacombe (825)-640 * Leduc (587)-245 264 274 453 671 828 954 979 *

Lethbridge Lethbridge ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. With a population of 106,550 in the 2023 Alberta municipal censuses, 2023 municipal census, Lethbridge became the fourth Alberta city to surpass 100,000 people. The nearby Canadian ...

(587)-220 257 370 388 394 425 486 691 787 800 813 822 961 * Lake Louise (587)-838 *West

Lloydminster Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administra ...

(587)-217 389 399 492 692 789 *

Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, R ...

(587)-245 253 289 366 750 770 801 814 824 *

Okotoks Okotoks ( , originally ) is a town in the Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary Region of Alberta, Canada. It is on the Sheep River, approximately south of Downtown Calgary. Okotoks has emerged as a bedroom community of Calgary. According to t ...

(587)-757 * Olds (587)-540 796 872 *

Peace River The Peace River () is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. The Peace River joins the Athabasca River in the Peace-Athabasca Delta to form the ...

(587)-261 479 748 996 * Ponoka (587)-729 850 * Provost (587)-767 878 *

Red Deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or Hart (deer), hart, and a female is called a doe or hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Ir ...

(587)-273 377 378 447 457 679 680 693 731 797 802 815 823 854 876 877 951 (825)-221 250 469 601 602 819 *

Sherwood Park Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area. It is adjacent to the City of Edmonton's eastern boundary. While long confined to generally south of Highway 16 ( Ye ...

(587)-235 269 456 745 827 860 957 *

Slave Lake Slave Lake is a town in northern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton. It is located on the southeast shore of Lesser Slave Lake at the junction ...

(587)-266 516 618 749 *

Spruce Grove Spruce Grove is a city that is west of Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. The city is adjacent to the Stony Plain, Alberta, Town of Stony Plain and is surrounded by Parkland County. With a 2021 population of 37,645, Spruce Grove is the List of cit ...

(587)-249 286 461 763 853 918 * Stavely (587)-662 728 * Strathmore (587)-251 365 658 727 848 * Stony Plain (587)-250 268 980 * Sundre (587)-444 * St. Albert (587)-234 751 764 804 805 * St. Paul (587)-614 645 * Stettler (587)-282 736 799 854 *

Vegreville Vegreville () is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is on Highway 16A approximately east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, and that year also saw the founding of the ''Vegreville Observer'', a week ...

(587)-262 280 616 790 804 981 *

Veteran A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in an job, occupation or Craft, field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in the military, armed forces. A topic o ...

(587)-725 857 *

Viking Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9� ...

(587)-256 * Vulcan (587)-652 678 793 858 * Wainwright (587)-281 724 791

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CRTC about Area code 825

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History

Service area and central office codes

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