Donalda
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Donalda is a village in central Alberta, Canada that is east of Ponoka. It was founded in 1911 and takes its name from Donalda Crossway, a niece of Sir Donald Mann, a Canadian Northern Railway official. It is home to the "World's Largest Oil Lamp", standing at high, the structure is one of the Giants of the Prairies. The village was first named Eidswold by the Norwegian settlers who first founded the community. It was renamed Donalda in 1910, when the railroad came through.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Donalda is referenced by 129 other articles, and connects out to list of communities in Alberta, time zone and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in AB, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1912 establishments in Alberta and Villages in Alberta.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Donalda
- Settlement.official_name
- Village of Donalda
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Donalda Lamp.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The Donalda oil lamp roadside attraction
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Alberta
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- none
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Alberta
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Alberta
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Alberta
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Census division
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- 7
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Municipal district
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Alberta
- Population
- 226
- Area
- 0.99
- Elevation
- 780
- Shares border with
- County of Stettler No. 6
- Official website
- village.donalda.ab.ca
- Image
- Donalda Lamp.jpg
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- Donalda
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Demographics
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- See also
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Donalda is a village in central Alberta, Canada that is east of Ponoka. It was founded in 1911 and takes its name from Donalda Crossway, a niece of Sir Donald Mann, a Canadian Northern Railway official. It is home to the "World's Largest Oil Lamp", standing at high, the structure is one of the Giants of the Prairies. The village was first named Eidswold by the Norwegian settlers who first founded the community. It was renamed Donalda in 1910, when the railroad came through.
== Demographics == In the 2021 census conducted by Statistics Canada, the village of Donalda had a population of 226 living in 109 of its 123 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 219. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Donalda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations