Kavanagh is a

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, Canada within

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. It is located on Highway 2A between

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and Leduc, approximately south of

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. The hamlet was settled by workers of the Kavanagh block of the

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and was named for Charles Edmund Kavanagh, railway superintendent. The grain elevators have since closed and been relocated. Kavanagh was declared a hamlet on January 5, 1980 by Marvin E. Moore, Minister of

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Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Kavanagh had a population of 39 living in 19 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 47. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kavanagh had a population of 47 living in 20 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 52. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

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Designated places in Alberta Hamlets in Alberta Leduc County {{Edmonton-geo-stub

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