Clairmont is a

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. Previously an incorporated municipality, Clairmont dissolved from village status on January 1, 1946 to become part of the Municipal District of Bear Lake No. 740. Clairmont is located in the

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, along Highway 2, approximately north of

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and south of Sexsmith. Clairmont lies at an elevation of , on the western shore of ''Clairmont Lake''. Initially the area was commonly known as Twin Lakes. The first use of the name "Clairmont" was in 1907 by the earliest surveyor of the township boundaries, JB Saint Cyr.

History

Development of the townsite really got started once it was surveyed and after the arrival of the Edmonton, Dunvegan & British Columbia Railway in 1916. By the end of 1916, the townsite had a railway station, two or three grain elevators, an agent's house, the Buffalo Lakes Lumber Yard, Clairmont Hotel, a Union Bank, a butcher shop, several stores, a Baptist church, and a handful of residences. On September 10, 1915 the Clairmont Lake School District was opened. A post office was established in 1916. In 1922, a large fire consumed many Clairmont businesses, while a train station was built in 1923. Clairmont was incorporated as a village in 1917, but renounced the village status in 1946 after a downturn in economy caused by the

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. It eventually became the location of the County of Grande Prairie No. 1's municipal office. A new school was built with municipal funding in 2007 and opened in 2008.

Demographics

The Hamlet of Clairmont had a population of 5,135 in the

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