Donalda

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Donalda

| official_name = Village of Donalda

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = Donalda Lamp.jpg

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| image_caption = The Donalda oil lamp roadside attraction

| pushpin_map = Canada Alberta

| pushpin_label_position = none

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Alberta

| pushpin_mapsize = 200

| 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 = 7

| subdivision_type4 = Municipal district

| subdivision_name4 = County of Stettler No. 6

| government_footnotes = {{AMOS}}

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Doug Booker

| leader_title1 = Governing body

| leader_name1 = Donalda Village Council

| established_title = Founded

| established_date =

| established_title1 = Incorporated{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/MunicipalProfiles/basicReport/VILG.PDF | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | title=Location and History Profile: Village of Donalda | page=239 | date=October 14, 2016 | access-date=October 17, 2016}}

| established_date1 =  

| established_title2 =  • Village

| established_date2 = December 30, 1912

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| area_footnotes =  (2021)

| area_land_km2 = 0.97

| population_as_of = 2021

| population_footnotes =

| population_note =

| population_total = 226

| population_density_km2 = 233.6

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| timezone = MST

| utc_offset = −7

| timezone_DST = MDT

| utc_offset_DST = −6

| coordinates = {{coord|52|34|58.2|N|112|34|18.2|W|region:CA-AB|display=inline,title}}

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 780

| elevation_ft =

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| blank_name = Highways

| blank_info = Highway 53

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Donalda is a village in central Alberta, Canada that is east of Ponoka. It was founded in 1911 and takes its name from Donalda Crossway, a niece of Sir Donald Mann, a Canadian Northern Railway official.{{cite web | url=http://www.unlockthepast.ca/Donalda | title=Donalda | publisher=Central Alberta Regional Museum Network | work=Unlock the Past with Central Alberta Regional Museum Network | access-date=2014-04-25}} It is home to the "World's Largest Oil Lamp", standing at {{convert|12.8|m|ft}} high, the structure is one of the Giants of the Prairies. The village was first named Eidswold by the Norwegian settlers who first founded the community."Mot Kanadas Nordvast: Pioneer Settlement by Scandinavians in Central Alberta" by William C. Wonders. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Vol. 65, No. 2 (1983), pp. 129-152. It was renamed Donalda in 1910, when the railroad came through.{{cite book|last=Donalda Jubilee Committee|title=Fifty years on the coulee rim: factual history of Donalda and district|year=1963|location=Donalda, Alberta|page=5|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=271409}}