Rochfort Bridge is a

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, Canada within

Lac Ste. Anne County Lac Ste. Anne County is a municipal district in central Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 13, north west of Edmonton. Highway 43 stretches across this county. Its municipal office is located in the Hamlet of Sangudo. The c ...

. It is located approximately northwest of

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and east of

Mayerthorpe Mayerthorpe is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton at the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail). The town is surrounded by Lac Ste. Anne County and is in Alberta's Census Division ...

. Rochfort Bridge is named for Cooper (Cowper) Rochfort, who with his associate, Percy Michaelson, homesteaded on the Paddle River at the point where the old trail from Lac Ste. Anne to the MacLeod River crossed the Paddle River. One of

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’s longest wooden train trestles is located just east of the hamlet, which crosses over the

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valley and Highway 43. Rochfort Bridge Trestle was built in 1919 by

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History

A farm near Rochfort Bridge and Mayerthorpe was the site of the

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on March 3, 2005, in which four officers of the

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were shot and killed in a raid on a marijuana drug operation. On December 5, 2019, a fire broke out in a home inside the hamlet. In the early morning hours of December 6, fire crews announced a body had been discovered, and later on after a more extensive search, four more bodies had been discovered. Two adults, Marvin and Janet Gibbs, and their three grandchildren all were killed in the fire.

Demographics

The population of Rochfort Bridge according to the 2008 municipal census conducted by Lac Ste. Anne County is 71.

Notable people

* Peter Trynchy – Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MLA (1971-2001) and cabinet minister

References

Hamlets in Alberta Lac Ste. Anne County {{CentralAlberta-geo-stub

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