Cadotte Lake is an
unincorporated community
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in
Northern Sunrise County
Northern Sunrise County is a municipal district in northern Alberta, Canada. Located in Census Division 17, its municipal office is located east of the Town of Peace River at the intersection of Highway 2 and Highway 688.
History
On July ...
in
northern Alberta
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An informally defined cultural region, the boundaries of Northern Alberta are not fixed. Under some schemes, the region encompasses everything north of the ce ...
, Canada.
It is on the northern shore of the homonymous lake, along
Highway 986, east of
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 ...
and west of the
Bicentennial Highway (Highway 88).
It straddles the boundary between the
Woodland Cree First Nation Reserve 226 and Northern Sunrise County. The western part of the community, inside the reserve, is known as the Cadotte Lake Indian Settlement,
while the eastern part, in Northern Sunrise County, is designated a
hamlet
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.
[
]Cadotte Airport
Cadotte Airport was located adjacent to Cadotte Lake, Alberta
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is located east of the settlement.
The community is named for the nearby lake, as is the out-flowing Cadotte River
The Cadotte River is a tributary of the Peace River (Canada), Peace River in Northern Alberta, Canada.
The river gives the name to the Cadotte Member, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
Course
The Cadotte River for ...
, which lends its name to the Cadotte Member of the Peace River Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
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.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
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conducted by Statistics Canada
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, Cadotte Lake had a population of 23 living in 8 of its 13 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 61. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
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 designated places in Alberta
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*List of hamlets in Alberta
Hamlet (place), Hamlets in the Canadian province of Alberta are Unincorporated area, unincorporated communities administered by, and within the boundaries of, Specialized municipalities of Alberta, specialized municipalities or List of communit ...
References
*
The Boiling Point
' (Curtis Haugan. Record-Gazette. September 2, 2008)
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Hamlets in Alberta
Communities on Indian reserves in Alberta
Designated places in Alberta
Northern Sunrise County