Alderson, Alberta

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title: "Alderson, Alberta" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["former-villages-in-alberta", "ghost-towns-in-alberta", "localities-in-cypress-county", "populated-places-established-in-1910"] topic_path: "general/former-villages-in-alberta" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderson,_Alberta" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Alderson
other_name	Carlstadt (1911–1916)
native_name
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motto	"Star of the Prairies"
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subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Alberta
subdivision_type2	Region
subdivision_name2	Southeast Alberta
subdivision_type3	Census division
subdivision_name3	1
subdivision_type4	Municipal district
subdivision_name4	Cypress County
leader_title1	Governing body
leader_name1	Cypress County Council
leader_title3
leader_title4
established_title	Founded
established_date	1909
unit_pref
timezone	MST
utc_offset	−7
timezone_DST	MDT
utc_offset_DST	−6
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m	760
blank_name	Railways
blank_info	Canadian Pacific Railway
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Alderson is a locality in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. Now a ghost town, it previously held village status until January 31, 1936, and was known as the Village of Carlstadt from 1911 to 1916. The name was changed during the First World War when many other settlements in Canada and Australia changed German place names.

Alderson is located approximately 15 km northwest of Suffield along the Canadian Pacific Railway main line. The City of Brooks is approximately 50 km to the northwest and the City of Medicine Hat is approximately 55 km to the southeast. It has an elevation of 760 m.

History

Settlers came to southeast Alberta during the great land rush of the early years of the 20th century. It was formerly a train whistle stop named Langevin and would go on to become the centre of one of Canada's worst agriculture disasters; victim of drought, fires, flies, grasshoppers and marauding rabbits.

Demographics

| title = Population history of Alderson | type = Canada | align = right | width = | shading = off | percentages = | state = | cols = | footnote = | source = Statistics Canada |1901| |1906| |1911|162 |1916| |1921|111 |1926| |1931|81

In the 1931 Census, Alderson had a population of 81.

References

References

2. (2010-03-05). "Standard Geographical Classification 2006: Economic Regions, 4801003 - Cypress County, geographical codes and localities, 2006". [[Statistics Canada]].
3. (1949). "Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1946". [[Statistics Canada.
4. "Ghost Towns of Alberta: Alderson". Susan Foster and Johnnie Bachusky.
5. (March 8, 1963). "1961 Census of Canada". [[Statistics Canada.

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