Seba Beach is a

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located west of

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, Canada. The main employer to those within the village and surrounding area is the Sundance Generating Plant, a coal-fired power plant located on the south side of the lake, owned and operated by TransAlta Utilities. Ice Cream and Mini Golf in Seba Beach out of Season

Ice Cream and Mini Golf in Seba Beach out of Season

A large cabin-going community exists during the summer, although the village is populated year round. The village features a museum, marina, public beach, municipal building featuring a firehall and a library, thrift store, RV campground, golf resort, a

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course, a general store, and a farmers market which is open at certain dates during the summer. The village used to have a school, but lack of attending students forced it to close in 2019. Seba Beach is one of the few summer villages in Alberta that employs community peace officers. The duties of its two peace officers include traffic and liquor enforcement as well as emergency response. August long weekend is the annual Regatta at Seba Beach, which features a parade, dance, foot races, fireworks, beach volleyball tournament, and cribbage tournament, among other events. Fish within the lake include

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, whitefish,

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, and

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History

Seba Beach started as a couple of cabins in 1906, but during the 1920s when the railway passed by it became more accessible and the population grew. Seba Beach got its name from one of the sons of Cush in the

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. Early Seba Beach featured a hotel, bakery, post office, dance hall, a church (the building which the current museum is in), mink farm, and Twig's Inn, which served as both an inn and a gas station. Commercial ice fishing occurred during the winter months, and during the summer many different festivals and events were held which drew in large numbers from Edmonton.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, the Summer Village of Seba Beach had a population of 229 living in 128 of its 333 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 169. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Seba Beach had a population of 169 living in 82 of its 323 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 143. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

Edmonton Yacht Club

The Edmonton Yacht Club, founded in 1923, is the main sailing club of Seba Beach, located at 1 Avenue and 2 Street West. In 1989, Margaret Lemieux compiled ''Wind in the Sails: The Edmonton Yacht Club, 1923–1981'', which documented the history of the Edmonton Yacht Club and sailing in Alberta during this time period, published through the Seba Beach Heritage Society from records of the Edmonton Yacht Club from Cooking Lake and Seba Beach.

Notable residents

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, who competed at the

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in the Star class and at the

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in the Finn class

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