Red Deer is a city in Alberta, Canada, located midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Red Deer serves central Alberta, and its key industries include health care, retail trade, construction, oil and gas, hospitality, manufacturing and education. It is surrounded by Red Deer County and borders on Lacombe County. The city is in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills, alongside the Red Deer River.
Wetaskiwin is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the provincial capital of Edmonton. The city name comes from the Cree word wītaskiwinihk, meaning "the hills where peace was made".
Ma-Me-O Beach, Alberta, is a summer village on the southeast shore of Pigeon Lake, in Alberta, Canada. It is located approximately 100 km (60 mi) southwest of Edmonton.
Wetaskiwin-Camrose was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first past the post method of voting from 1993 to 2019.
Division No. 11 is a census division in Alberta, Canada. Surrounding the City of Edmonton, the majority of the division comprises Alberta's Capital Region, while the western and southern portions of the division are located within central Alberta. The division also forms the northern segment of the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor.
Wetaskiwin Regional Division No. 11 or Wetaskiwin Regional Public Schools (WRPS) is the school board serving the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. WRPS is a public school board system obliged to accept anyone who meets age and location requirements.
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 13, commonly referred to as Highway 13, is an east–west highway through central Alberta. It runs from Alder Flats, 7 km (4 mi) west of Highway 22, to the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, where it becomes Saskatchewan Highway 14. Highway 13 is about 366 kilometres (227 mi) long. East of the City of Wetaskiwin, it generally parallels a Canadian Pacific rail line.
Pigeon Lake is a lake in central Alberta, Canada that straddles the boundary between Leduc County and the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. It is located close to Edmonton, Leduc and Wetaskiwin. Communities located along the lakeshore include Pigeon Lake Indian Reserve 138A, ten summer villages, and four unincorporated communities.
Maskwacis, renamed in 2014 from Hobbema, is an unincorporated community in central Alberta, Canada at intersection of Highway 2A and Highway 611, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the City of Edmonton. The community consists of two Cree First Nations communities – one on the Ermineskin 138 reserve to the north and the other on the Samson 137 reserve to the south. It also consists of an adjacent hamlet within Ponoka County. The community also serves three more nearby First Nations reserves including Samson 137A to the south, Louis Bull 138B to the northwest, and Montana 139 to the south.
Central Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Ermineskin 138 is an Indian reserve of the Ermineskin Cree Nation in Alberta, located between Ponoka County and the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. Part of the Maskwacis community, it is 13 kilometres south of Wetaskiwin.
Falun is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. It is located on Highway 13, approximately 31 kilometres (19 mi) west of Wetaskiwin.
Pipestone is an unincorporated community in central Alberta in the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. It is approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Highway 2 and 29 kilometres (18 mi) northwest of Wetaskiwin.
Westerose is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. It is located on Highway 13, approximately 44 kilometres (27 mi) west of Wetaskiwin.
Montana 139 is an Indian reserve of the Montana First Nation in Alberta, located within Ponoka County. Part of the Maskwacis community, it is 24 kilometers south of Wetaskiwin. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 630 living in 137 of its 143 total private dwellings.
Pigeon Lake 138A is an Indian reserve in Alberta. It is located 39 kilometres (24 mi) west of Wetaskiwin along Pigeon Lake. It is at an elevation of 860 metres (2,820 ft). It is shared between the Samson Cree Nation, the Montana Cree Nation, the Louis Bull Tribe, and the Ermineskin Cree Nation.
Drayton Valley-Devon is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system. Drayton Valley-Devon is currently represented by United Conservative Party MLA Andrew Boitchenko. Prior to 2023, the district was represented by Mark Smith who was first elected in 2015.
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta general election and is represented by Rick Wilson of the United Conservative Party of Alberta.
Pigeon Lake Regional School is a public grade 7–12 middle and high school in Falun, Alberta, and a part of Wetaskiwin Regional Division No. 11. It serves Falun, Pipestone, Westerose, the Pigeon Lake area, the reserve of Ma-Me-O Beach First Nations, the Maskwacis reserve, the Louis Bull Reserve, and the Pigeon Lake Reserve. As of 2018 it had about 300 students.
