Enchant, Alberta

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Enchant is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Taber.{{AltaML}} It is on Highway 526 and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, between Vauxhall and Lomond. It has an elevation of {{convert|810|m|ft}}.

The hamlet is located in census division No. 2 and in the federal riding of Medicine Hat.

Enchant was once incorporated as a village but was dissolved from village status on February 1, 1945.{{cite book | title=Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1946 | volume=I: Population | year=1949 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | location=Ottawa | page=416 | chapter=Table 6a: Population by census divisions and subdivisions showing reorganization of rural areas, 1931-1946}} The railroad arrived in 1914 and the first grain elevator was completed in 1915.{{cite book|last=Book Committees of Sundial, Enchant, and Retlaw|title=Drybelt Pioneers of Sundial, Enchant, Retlaw|year=1967|location=Sundial, Alberta|page=112|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=1076577|access-date=2013-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924062642/http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=1076577|archive-date=2015-09-24|url-status=dead}} Enchant was the site of the 1917 founding of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada. George A. Rawlyk, Mark A. Noll, Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Canada, 1994, p. 326

Demographics

The Municipal District of Taber's 2016 municipal census counted a population of 259 in Enchant,{{cite web | url=http://www.mdtaber.ab.ca/149/About-Us | title=About Us: Population & Statistics | publisher=Municipal District of Taber | access-date=October 8, 2016 | archive-date=October 12, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012192713/http://mdtaber.ab.ca/149/About-Us | url-status=dead }} a {{percentage|{{#expr:259-289}}|289|1}} change from the hamlet's 2013 municipal census population of 289.{{cite web | url=http://www.mdtaber.ab.ca/sites/default/files/webfile/NEWSLETTER%20SUMMER%202013.pdf | title=MD Connection (newsletter): Fountain of Youth? | publisher=Municipal District of Taber | page=7 | type=PDF | date=Summer 2013 | access-date=August 29, 2013 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

See also

References

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Category:Hamlets in Alberta

Category:Former villages in Alberta

Category:Municipal District of Taber

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