Division No. 3 is a

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, Canada. It is located in the southwest corner of

southern Alberta Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. In 2016, the region's population was approximately 291,112. The primary cities are Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. The region is known mostly for agricultural production, but o ...

and its largest urban community is the Town of

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 ...

Census subdivisions

The following

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(municipalities or municipal equivalents) are located within Alberta's Division No. 3. *Towns **

Cardston Cardston is a town in Alberta, Canada. It was first settled in 1887 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who travelled from Utah, via the Macleod-Benton Trail, to present-day Alberta in one of the century ...

Fort Macleod Fort Macleod ( ) is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It was originally named Macleod to distinguish it from the North-West Mounted Police barracks (Fort Macleod, built 1874) it had grown around. The fort was named in honour of the then List o ...

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** Magrath ** Nanton **

Pincher Creek Pincher Creek is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located immediately east of the Canadian Rockies, west of Lethbridge and south of Calgary. History For centuries before European settlers reached this area and inhabited it, Indig ...

** Stavely *Villages ** Cowley ** Glenwood **

Hill Spring Hill Spring is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located west of Cardston and southeast of Pincher Creek, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. History Hill Spring was founded in 1910 by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- ...

*Hamlets **

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Beaver Mines Beaver Mines is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9. It is located in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies on Highway 507, approximately west of Pincher Creek. History The community wa ...

Beazer Beazer was a family business for six generationsC.H.Beazer (Holdings) Prospectus, July 1973 before expanding in the 1980s into an international home construction, housebuilding, construction, and building materials group. After becoming overburd ...

Carway Carway () is a village situated to the north-west of the town of Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, in the Gwendraeth Valley. It is part of the community of Llangyndeyrn, and had a population of 1,403 in 2021.''Thomas Brinkhoff: ...

** Del Bonita **

** Kimball ** Leavitt ** Lundbreck ** Mountain View ** Orton ** Parkland ** Pincher Station ** Spring Coulee ** Twin Butte **

Waterton Park Waterton Park, commonly referred to as Waterton, is a hamlet in southwestern Alberta, Canada within Improvement District No. 4 Waterton (Waterton Lakes National Park). It is located at the southwestern terminus of Highway 5, approximately ...

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*Municipal districts **

Cardston County Cardston County is a municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 3 around the Town of Cardston. The municipal district was established on January 1, 1954, through the amalgamation of the ''Municipal Dist ...

** Pincher Creek No. 9, M.D. of ** Willow Creek No. 26, M.D. of *Improvement districts ** Improvement District No. 4 (Waterton Lakes National Park) *First Nation reserves **

Blood 148 Blood 148 is a First Nations reserve in Alberta, Canada. It is inhabited by the Blood (Kainai) First Nation and was established under the provisions of Treaty 7. This reserve is managed from the community of Stand Off on its northwest border a ...

** Blood 148A **

Piikani 147 Piikani 147, formerly Peigan 147, is an Indian reserve of the Piikani Nation in Alberta. It is located west of the City of Lethbridge. It has a land area of , making it the fourth-largest Indian reserve in Canada, and lies at an elevation of . T ...

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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, Division No. 3 had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

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Census subdivisions

Demographics

See also

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