Dimsdale, Alberta

Hamlet in Alberta, Canada

55°08′38″N 118°59′24″W / 55.14389°N 118.99000°W / 55.14389; -118.99000CountryCanadaProvinceAlbertaRegionNorthern AlbertaCensus division19Municipal district County of Grande Prairie No. 1Government

• TypeUnincorporated • Governing bodyCounty of Grande Prairie No. 1 CouncilPopulation

(1981)^[1]

• Total25Time zoneUTC−07:00 (MST) • Summer (DST)UTC−06:00 (MDT)Area code(s)780, 587, 825

Dimsdale is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within the County of Grande Prairie No. 1.^[2] It was established on March 30 of 2001 and is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Highway 43, approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west of Grande Prairie.

The hamlet was named after Henry George Wadsworth Dimsdale, a construction engineer on the extension of the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway.^[3]^[4]

Demographics

Dimsdale recorded a population of 25 in the 1981 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "1981 Census of Canada: Place Name Reference List — Western Provinces and the Territories" (PDF). Statistics Canada. May 1983. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
^ "Specialized and Rural Municipalities and Their Communities" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. January 12, 2022. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
^ Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada. 1928. p. 43.
^ "Chapter 4: Dimsdale". Along the Wapiti. Wapiti River Historical Society. 1981. pp. 63–69. ISBN 092056402X.