Scapa is a hamlet located in
Special Area No. 2
Special Area No. 2 is a Special Areas Board, special area in Southern Alberta, southern Alberta, Canada. It is a rural municipality similar to a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district; however, the elected council is overseen ...
in
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
, Canada.
It had a population of 4 in 1975. The former
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...
line that travelled past the community was completed in 1934. In 2020 the community erected a memorial to the victims of a 1906 blizzard that hit Scapa. Scapa is home to St. Peter's Lutheran Church and at one point also had two grain elevators.
See also
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List of hamlets in Alberta
Hamlet (place), Hamlets in the Canadian province of Alberta are Unincorporated area, unincorporated communities administered by, and within the boundaries of, Specialized municipalities of Alberta, specialized municipalities or List of communit ...
References
Hamlets in Alberta
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