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Scapa, Alberta

Hamlet in Alberta, Canada

Field	Value
name	Scapa
settlement_type	Hamlet
etymology	Scapa Flow, Scotland
pushpin_map	CAN AB Special Area 2 # Alberta
pushpin_label_position	none
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Scapa in Special Area No. 2
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Alberta
subdivision_type2	Region
subdivision_name2	Central Alberta
subdivision_type3	Census division
subdivision_name3	No. 4
subdivision_type4	Special Area
subdivision_name4	Special Area No. 2
government_type	Unincorporated
leader_title1	Governing body
leader_name1	Special Areas Board
elevation_m	791
timezone1	Mountain Time Zone
utc_offset1	-7
timezone1_DST	Mountain Time Zone
utc_offset1_DST	-6

Scapa is a hamlet located in Special Area No. 2 in Alberta, Canada. It had a population of 4 in 1975. The former Canadian National Railway line that travelled past the community was completed in 1934. In 2020 the community erected a memorial to the victims of a 1906 blizzard that hit Scapa. Scapa is home to St. Peter's Lutheran Church and at one point also had two grain elevators.

History

The CNR railway reached it's terminus of Scapa in 1925, which was surveyed into four lots and three grain elevator sites (only two were ever used). Scapa was named by J.B. Mackenzie, the first post office master, likely after Scapa Flow from his native Scotland. A hall was built in the hamlet and a school was opened in 1929, and other amenities were also constructed such as a store and a Lutheran church. St. Peter's Lutheran Church was originally built in 1911 in Wetaskiwin but was dismantled and moved to Craigmyle by train and then transported to Scapa by sleighs in the winter of 1920-1921 after the Wetaskiwin congregation disbanded. The school was closed in 1968, with children from the hamlet being bused to nearby Hanna. The store and post office were converted into private dwellings in the late seventies and the grain elevators in the hamlet were demolished in 1983. The church and the hall continue to operate to this day and Scapa celebrated a centennial in 2025.

References

{{AltaML
"Scapa, Alberta". [[University of Calgary]].
(14 April 1932). "Extension of Time on Rail Lines Sought".
(4 December 2020). "Scapa-area ranchers memorialize victims of 1906 blizzard".
"ST. PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH Scapa, Alberta".
"Scapa Centennial".
"Journey to Garden Plain".

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