List of former urban municipalities in Alberta

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The Province of Alberta currently has 253 urban municipalities including 19 cities, 105 towns, 78 villages and 51 summer villages.[1] In addition, there are 106 communities that previously held some form of urban municipality status. These include 2 former cities, 16 former towns, 2 former new towns, 85 former villages, and 1 former summer village. These communities no longer exist as independent urban municipalities due to amalgamation, annexation or dissolution.

List

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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]
Black Diamond Town   January 1, 2023[7]
Blackie Village   August 31, 1997[8]
Blairmore Town   January 1, 1979[4]
Botha Village   September 1, 2017[9]
Bow City Village   April 17, 1918[10]
Bowness Town   August 15, 1964[11]
Burdett Village   January 1, 2003[12]
Cadogan Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Caroline Village   January 1, 2025[13]
Cayley Village   June 1, 1996[14]
Cereal Village   January 1, 2021[15]
Chinook Village   April 1, 1977[16]
Clairmont Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Cluny Village   September 15, 1995[17]
Coleman Town   January 1, 1979[4]
Commerce Village Coalgate May 13, 1926[18]
Compeer Village   December 31, 1936[19]
Craigmyle Village   January 1, 1972[20]
Crescent Heights Village   January 1, 1911[21]
Cynthia New town   May 1, 1959[22]
Derwent Village   September 1, 2010[23]
Dewberry Village   January 1, 2021[24]
Diamond City Town   June 30, 1937[25]
Drinnan Village   April 1, 1957[26]
Dunmore Village   February 4, 1919[27]
Eaglesham Village   December 31, 1996[28]
East Calgary Village   July 17, 1919[29]
Enchant Village   February 1, 1945[30]
Entwistle Village   December 31, 2000[31]
Erskine Village   May 10, 1946[32]
Evansburg Village   June 30, 1998[33]
Evarts Village   May 27, 1916[34]
Ferintosh Village   January 1, 2020[35]
Forest Lawn Town   December 30, 1961[36]
Fort Assiniboine Village   December 31, 1991[37]
Fort McMurray City McMurray April 1, 1995[38]
Frank Village   January 1, 1979[4]
Gadsby Village   February 1, 2020[39]
Galahad Village   January 1, 2016[40]
Gleichen Town   March 31, 1998[41]
Grande Cache Town   January 1, 2019[42]
Grand Centre Town   October 1, 1996
Granum Town   February 1, 2020[43]
Grassy Lake Village   July 1, 1996[44]
Grouard Village   January 15, 1944[45]
Hairy Hill Village   December 31, 1996[46]
Halkirk Village   January 1, 2025[47]
Hythe Village   July 1, 2021[48]
Irvine Town   December 31, 1996[49]
Islay Village   March 15, 1944[50]
Jasper Place Town West Jasper Place August 17, 1964[6]
Jenner Village   June 25, 1943[51]
Kinuso Village   September 1, 2009[52]
Lac La Biche Town   August 1, 2007[53]
Langdon Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Lavoy Village   April 30, 1999[54]
Lille Village   1919[55]
Lodgepole New town   March 1, 1970[56]
Lundbreck Village   April 30, 1906[57]
Minburn Village   July 1, 2015[58]
Mirror Village   January 1, 2004[59]
Monarch Village   December 31, 1938[60]
Monitor Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Montgomery Town   August 15, 1963[61]
Mountain View Village   September 9, 1915[62]
New Norway Village   November 1, 2012[63]
New Sarepta Village   September 1, 2010[64]
Newcastle Village   May 21, 1931[65]
North Edmonton Village   July 22, 1912[66]
North Red Deer Village   December 31, 1947[67]
Ohaton Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Pincher City Village   May 3, 1932[68]
Plamondon Village   May 1, 2002[69]
Port Cornwall Village   September 11, 1917[70]
Radway Village   December 31, 1996[71]
Ranfurly Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Retlaw Village   March 1, 1939[72]
Richdale Village   June 2, 1931[73]
Riverside Village  
Rosebud Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Rouleauville Village  
Rumsey Village   April 1, 1995[37]
Sangudo Village   September 16, 2007[53]
Stafford Village   January 1, 1913[74]
Strathcona City South Edmonton February 1, 1912[6]
Strome Village   January 1, 2016[75]
Suffield Village   January 1, 1930[76]
Swalwell Village   January 1, 1946[5]
Thorhild Village   April 1, 2009[52]
Tilley Village   August 31, 2013[77]
Tollerton Village   January 26, 1918[citation needed]
Torrington Village   December 31, 1997[78]
Turner Valley Town   January 1, 2023[7]
Wabamun Village   January 1, 2021[79]
Walsh Village   May 4, 1925[80]
Wanham Village   December 31, 1999[54]
Warspite Village   June 1, 2000[31]
West Edmonton Village Calder April 5, 1917[81]
White Gull Summer village   January 1, 2003[82]
Wildwood Village   December 31, 1990[83]
Willingdon Village   September 1, 2017[84]

See also

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References

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