List of former urban municipalities in Alberta

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The Province of Alberta currently has 256 urban municipalities including 19 cities, 106 towns, 80 villages and 51 summer villages.[1] In addition, there are 100 communities that previously held some form of urban municipality status. These include 2 former cities, 14 former towns, 2 former new towns, 81 former villages, and 1 former summer village. These communities no longer exist as independent urban municipalities due to amalgamation, annexation or dissolution.

List[]

Former urban
municipality 		Former
status 		Original
name 		Dissolution
date
Albert Park Village   August 1, 1935[2]
Alderson Village Carlstadt January 31, 1936[3]
Bellevue Village   January 1, 1979[4]
Bellis Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Beverly Town   December 30, 1961[6]
Blackie Village   August 31, 1997[7]
Blairmore Town   January 1, 1979[4]
Bow City Village   April 17, 1918[8]
Bowness Town   August 15, 1964[9]
Burdett Village   January 1, 2003[10]
Cadogan Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Cayley Village   June 1, 1996[11]
Cereal Village   January 1, 2021[12]
Chinook Village   April 1, 1977[13]
Clairmont Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Cluny Village   September 15, 1995[14]
Coleman Town   January 1, 1979[4]
Commerce Village Coalgate May 13, 1926[15]
Compeer Village   December 31, 1936[16]
Craigmyle Village   January 1, 1972[17]
Crescent Heights Village   January 1, 1911[18]
Cynthia New town   May 1, 1959[19]
Derwent Village   September 1, 2010[20]
Dewberry Village   January 1, 2021[21]
Diamond City Town   June 30, 1937[22]
Drinnan Village   April 1, 1957[23]
Dunmore Village   February 4, 1919[24]
Eaglesham Village   December 31, 1996[25]
East Calgary Village   July 17, 1919[26]
Enchant Village   February 1, 1945[27]
Entwistle Village   December 31, 2000[28]
Erskine Village   May 10, 1946[29]
Evansburg Village   June 30, 1998[30]
Evarts Village   May 27, 1916[31]
Ferintosh Village   January 1, 2020[32]
Forest Lawn Town   December 30, 1961[33]
Fort Assiniboine Village   December 31, 1991[34]
Fort McMurray City McMurray April 1, 1995[35]
Frank Village   January 1, 1979[4]
Gadsby Village   February 1, 2020[36]
Galahad Village   January 1, 2016[37]
Gleichen Town   March 31, 1998[38]
Grande Cache Town   January 1, 2019[39]
Grand Centre Town   October 1, 1996
Granum Town   February 1, 2020[40]
Grassy Lake Village   July 1, 1996[41]
Grouard Village   January 15, 1944[42]
Hairy Hill Village   December 31, 1996[43]
Hythe Village   July 1, 2021[44]
Irvine Town   December 31, 1996[45]
Islay Village   March 15, 1944[46]
Jasper Place Town West Jasper Place August 17, 1964[6]
Jenner Village   June 25, 1943[47]
Kinuso Village   September 1, 2009[48]
Lac La Biche Town   August 1, 2007[49]
Langdon Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Lavoy Village   April 30, 1999[50]
Lille Village  
Lodgepole New town   March 1, 1970[51]
Lundbreck Village   April 30, 1906[52]
Minburn Village   July 1, 2015[53]
Mirror Village   January 1, 2004[54]
Monarch Village   December 31, 1938[55]
Monitor Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Montgomery Town   August 15, 1963[56]
Mountain View Village   September 9, 1915[57]
New Norway Village   November 1, 2012[58]
New Sarepta Village   September 1, 2010[59]
Newcastle Village   May 21, 1931[60]
North Edmonton Village   July 22, 1912[61]
North Red Deer Village   December 31, 1947[62]
Ohaton Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Pincher City Village   May 3, 1932[63]
Plamondon Village   May 1, 2002[64]
Port Cornwall Village   September 11, 1917[65]
Radway Village   December 31, 1996[66]
Ranfurly Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Retlaw Village   March 1, 1939[67]
Richdale Village   June 2, 1931[68]
Riverside Village  
Rosebud Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Rouleauville Village  
Rumsey Village   April 1, 1995[34]
Sangudo Village   September 16, 2007[49]
Stafford Village   January 1, 1913[69]
Strathcona City South Edmonton February 1, 1912[6]
Strome Village   January 1, 2016[70]
Suffield Village   January 1, 1930[71]
Swalwell Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Thorhild Village   April 1, 2009[48]
Tilley Village   August 31, 2013[72]
Tollerton Village   January 26, 1918[citation needed]
Torrington Village   December 31, 1997[73]
Wabamun Village   January 1, 2021[74]
Walsh Village   May 4, 1925[75]
Wanham Village   December 31, 1999[50]
Warspite Village   June 1, 2000[28]
West Edmonton Village Calder April 5, 1917[76]
White Gull Summer village   January 1, 2003[77]
Wildwood Village   December 31, 1990[78]
Willingdon Village   September 1, 2017[79]

See also[]

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