Carmangay
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Carmangay ( ) is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located north of Lethbridge and south of Calgary, along the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, east of Highway 23. It takes its name from C.W. Carman, who bought at $3.50 per acre to grow wheat in 1904, and his wife, Gertrude Gay.
Key facts
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- Carmangay
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- Village of Carmangay
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- Village
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- Alberta#Canada
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- Location of Carmangay in Alberta
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- Country
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- Canada
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- Province
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- Alberta
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- Region
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- Southern Alberta
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- Census division
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- 5
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- Municipal district
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- Vulcan County
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- Mayor
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- Stacy Hovde
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Alberta
- Population
- 269
- Area
- 1.86
- Elevation
- 935
- Body of water
- Little Bow River
- Shares border with
- Nanton
- Official website
- villageofcarmangay.ca
- Dialing code
- 825
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- T0L 0N0
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- Carmangay
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demographics
- Wind farm
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- References
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Carmangay ( ) is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located north of Lethbridge and south of Calgary, along the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, east of Highway 23. It takes its name from C.W. Carman, who bought at $3.50 per acre to grow wheat in 1904, and his wife, Gertrude Gay.
== History == Carmangay is the site of the Carmangay Tipi Rings, an archeological tipi ring site. The site does not have much archaeological material, though there has been enough to date it to 200–1700 AD.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carmangay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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