Rich Valley, Alberta

Hamlet in Alberta, Canada

53°50′54″N 114°21′00″W / 53.84833°N 114.35000°W / 53.84833; -114.35000CountryCanadaProvinceAlbertaRegionCentral AlbertaCensus division13Municipal district Lac Ste. Anne CountyGovernment

• TypeUnincorporated • Governing bodyLac Ste. Anne County CouncilPopulation

(2008)^[1]

• Total32Time zoneUTC−07:00 (MST) • Summer (DST)UTC−06:00 (MDT)Area code(s)780, 587, 825

Rich Valley is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Lac Ste. Anne County.^[2] It is located on Highway 33, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) northwest of Edmonton.

History

Rich Valley was originally called "Onion Prairie".^[3] The first post office was established in the home of the Carlin family in 1909.^[3]

Demographics

The population of Rich Valley, according to the 2008 municipal census conducted by Lac Ste. Anne County, is 32.^[1]

Infrastructure

Rich Valley Public Library^[4]
Rich Valley School^[5] - Northern Gateway Public Schools (K-7)
Rich Valley Community Church

Notable people

Georges Charles-Jules Bugnet, Canadian writer and horticulturalist, did much of his plant hybridization work at Rich Valley
William Purdy, former MLA of Stoney Plain (1971–1986) and first mayor of the Village of Wabuman

References

^ ^a ^b "Alberta Population Summary: Alberta's Hamlets Alphabetically, 2010" (PDF). Alberta Population. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
^ "Specialized and Rural Municipalities and Their Communities" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. January 12, 2022. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Lac Ste. Anne Historical Society. Archives Committee (1959). West of the Fifth: a history of Lac Ste. Anne Municipality. Edmonton, CA: The Institute of Applied Art Ltd. p. 229.
^ Rich Valley Public Library
^ Rich Valley School