Fitzsimmons, Alberta
{{short description|Locality in Alberta, Canada}}
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{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
Fitzsimmons is an unincorporated locality in northwest Alberta, Canada within the County of Grande Prairie No. 1. It is approximately {{convert|30|km|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of Grande Prairie.
The locality of Fitzsimmons formed around the Fitzsimmons School District No. 4500 which was approved July 7, 1930, for the area north of Bezanson and west of the Smoky River.{{cite book|last1=Nutting|first1=Mary|title=A Grande Education|date=April 2010|publisher=South Peace Regional Archives|location=Grande Prairie, Alberta|isbn=978-0-9735665-0-5|pages=55–56|ref=A Grande Education}} It was named after a homesteader in the district, Scotty Fitzsimmons.{{cite web|title=Post Offices and Post Masters|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/post-offices-postmasters/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=21979&|website=Library and Archives Canada|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=30 November 2015|ref=Post Offices and Post Masters}} Two years later, a post office was established in the home of C. Milnar on the NW quarter of Township 73, Range 3, West of the 6th Meridian.{{cite book|last1=Aubrey|first1=Merrily|title=Place Names of Alberta Volume 4|date=1996|publisher=University of Calgary Press|location=Calgary, Alberta|isbn=1-895176-59-X|page=72|ref=Place Names of Alberta Volume 4}} The one-room school closed in 1956 and the students were bussed to the school at Bezanson. In 1951, the post office also closed and there are no public buildings remaining to mark the locality of Fitzsimmons.{{cite book|last1=Aubrey|first1=Merrily|title=Place Names of Alberta Volume 4|date=1996|publisher=University of Calgary Press|location=Calgary, Alberta|isbn=1-895176-59-X|page=72|ref=Place Names of Alberta Volume 4}} Information on this community and the people who lived there can be found in Smoky River to Grande Prairie. (4){{cite book|title=Wagon Trails Grown Over|url=https://archive.org/details/wagontrailsgrown0000unse|url-access=registration|date=1980|publisher=Sexsmith to the Smoky Historical Society|location=Sexsmith, Alberta|isbn=0-88925-101-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wagontrailsgrown0000unse/page/79 79-139]|ref=Wagon Trails Grown Over}}