Glenwood, Alberta

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Glenwood
Village of Glenwood
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Glenwood
Coordinates: 49°21′49″N113°30′38″W / 49.36361°N 113.51056°W / 49.36361; -113.51056
CountryCanada
Province Alberta
Region Southern Alberta
Census division 3
Municipal district Cardston County
Incorporated [1]  
   Village January 1, 1961
Government
[2]
  MayorAlbert Elias
  Governing bodyGlenwood Village Council
Area
 (2021) [3]
  Land1.37 km2 (0.53 sq mi)
Population
 (2021) [3]
  Total
272
  Density197.9/km2 (513/sq mi)
Time zone UTC−7 (MST)
  Summer (DST) UTC−6 (MDT)
Postal code span
Highways Highway 810
Highway 505
Waterways Belly River
Website Official website

Glenwood is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located north of the Town of Cardston, in Cardston County. The village was named for a man named Edward Glen Wood. The founder of the village was Edward J. Wood, successor to Latter Day Saint leader Charles Ora Card, the founder of Cardston. Both Glen and Edward Wood were from Salt Lake City, Utah, and are buried in Cardston. The old name for the village was Glenwoodville until 1979.

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History

Surveying for the community of originally named Glenwoodville was done by Seymour B. Smith. The townsite was designed in the Latter Day Saints Plat of Zion grid; Glenwood consisted of approximately 640 acres, divided into blocks of eight acres each,and building lots of one acre each with streets eight rods wide running at right angles through the town. Where the town blocks ended, ten-acre lots were surveyed so that the town residents could have a small pasture for livestock.

The original townsite of Glenwood consisted of one block set aside for church buildings, another for district school purposes, and another, larger than the other two, for town park purposes. In the centre of town, along the main street, business lots of fifty foot frontage were marked off.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Glenwood had a population of 272 living in 104 of its 124 total private dwellings, a change of

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Glenwood recorded a population of 316 living in 107 of its 119 total private dwellings, a

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References

  1. "Location and History Profile: Village of Glenwood" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. October 21, 2016. p. 330. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  2. "Municipal Officials Search". Alberta Municipal Affairs. May 9, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities)". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Archived from the original on March 7, 2023. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
  4. "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Alberta)". Statistics Canada. February 8, 2017. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2017.

49°21′49″N113°30′38″W / 49.36361°N 113.51056°W / 49.36361; -113.51056