Glenwood is a village in

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, Canada. It is located north of the Town of Cardston, in

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. The village was named for a man named Edward Glen Wood. The founder of the village was Edward J. Wood, successor to Latter Day Saint leader

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, the founder of Cardston. Both Glen and Edward Wood were from

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, and are buried in Cardston. The old name for the village was Glenwoodville until 1979.

History

Surveying for the community of originally named Glenwoodville was done by Seymour B. Smith. The townsite was designed in the

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Plat of Zion grid; Glenwood consisted of approximately 640 acres, divided into blocks of eight acres each,and building lots of one acre each with streets eight rods wide running at right angles through the town. Where the town blocks ended, ten-acre lots were surveyed so that the town residents could have a small pasture for livestock. The original townsite of Glenwood consisted of one block set aside for church buildings, another for district school purposes, and another, larger than the other two, for town park purposes. In the centre of town, along the main street, business lots of fifty foot frontage were marked off.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, the Village of Glenwood had a population of 272 living in 104 of its 124 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 316. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Glenwood recorded a population of 316 living in 107 of its 119 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 287. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

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