Elmworth

Elmworth
Hamlet
Elmworth School
Elmworth School
Elmworth is located in Alberta
Elmworth
Elmworth
Location of Elmworth in Alberta
Coordinates: 55°03′14″N 119°36′57″W / 55.0539°N 119.6158°W / 55.0539; -119.6158
CountryCanada
ProvinceAlberta
Census divisionNo. 19
Municipal districtCounty of Grande Prairie No. 1
Government
 • TypeUnincorporated
 • ReeveLeanne Beaupre
 • Governing body
  • Leanne Beaupre
  • Corey Beck
  • Daryl Beeston
  • Harold Bulford
  • Peter Harris
  • Bob Marshall
  • Karen Rosvold
  • Ross Sutherland
  • Linda Dianne Waddy
Elevation
715 m (2,346 ft)
Population
 (1981)[1]
 • Total8
Time zoneUTC−7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−6 (MDT)

Elmworth is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within the County of Grande Prairie No. 1.[2] It is located on Highway 722 north of the Wapiti River and east of the British Columbia border. It has an elevation of 715 metres (2,346 ft). The Elmworth natural gas field stretches west and south of the hamlet.

The hamlet is located in census division No. 19 and in the federal riding of Peace River. The hamlet of Elmworth formed around Elmworth School District 3791, established in March 1919 and named after Elmworth, New Brunswick, home of settler Franklin Brewer.[3] Classes began in a borrowed log cabin until the school could be built on the SE quarter of section 16, township 70, range 11, west of the 6th meridian.[4] On 1 December 1920 a post office was opened in the Brewer home,[5] and in 1927, the Brewers decided to add a country store to their services. They built a new home, store and post office across from the school on the NW quarter of section 9. The store also contained the government telephone.[6] These two buildings formed the nucleus of the hamlet of Elmworth until the Elmworth Hall was added in 1947, a Community Church in 1948, and the Elmworth Cemetery soon after.[7][8]

  1. ^ "1981 Census of Canada: Place Name Reference List – Western Provinces and the Territories" (PDF). Statistics Canada. May 1983. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Specialized and Rural Municipalities and Their Communities" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  3. ^ Aubrey, Merrily K. (1996). Place Names of Alberta Volume IV (1st ed.). Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press. p. 65. ISBN 1-895176-59-X.
  4. ^ Nutting, Mary B (2010). A Grande Education (1st ed.). Grande Prairie, Alberta: South Peace Regional Archives. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-0-9735665-0-5.
  5. ^ "Post Offices and Post Masters". Library and Archives Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  6. ^ Stacey, Earl C. (1974). Beaverlodge to the Rockies (1st ed.). Beaverlodge, Alberta: Beaverlodge and District Historical Association. pp. 255–258. ISBN 0-919212-52-2.
  7. ^ "Herald Tribune, August 26, 1948". Our Future Our Past. Alberta Heritage Digitization Project. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  8. ^ "Herald Tribune, December 9, 1948". Our Future Our Past. Alberta Heritage Digitization Project. Retrieved 4 January 2016.