Newcastle, Alberta
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
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|subdivision_type2 = Census division
|subdivision_name2 = No. 5
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|subdivision_name3 = Town of Drumheller
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|established_title = Incorporated (village)
|established_date = March 16, 1923
|established_title2 = Dissolved
|established_date2 = May 21, 1931
|established_title3 = Annexed
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Newcastle is a community within the Town of Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. It held village status for eight years between 1923 and 1931, and was recognized as a hamlet prior to annexation by Drumheller in 1967. The community is located within the Red Deer River valley on South Dinosaur Trail (Highway 838),{{Cite web | url=http://www.dinosaurvalley.com/files/drumheller/Town_of_Drumheller.pdf | title=Town of Drumheller maps | publisher=Town of Drumheller | type=PDF | page=2 | date=January 2006 | accessdate=October 10, 2013}} approximately {{convert|2|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Drumheller's main townsite. The former hamlet of Midlandvale is located across the river to the north.
History
Newcastle was incorporated as a village on March 16, 1923.{{cite web |url=http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/TOWN/0532/Drumheller_Gaz_Erected_into_Village_of_Newscastle_1923_9.pdf |author=Province of Alberta |title=Organization of Village Municipality – Village of Newcastle |date=1923-03-22 |accessdate=2010-03-10}} It subsequently dissolved from village status on May 21, 1931.{{cite web |url=http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/TOWN/0532/Drumheller_Gaz_OC%20575_31_1931_Village_of_Newscatle_Dissolved_No7.pdf |author=Province of Alberta |title=Order in Council (O.C.) 575-31 |date=1931-06-02 |accessdate=2010-03-10}} Newcastle was eventually annexed by the former City of Drumheller from the former Municipal District of Badlands No. 7 (then Improvement District No. 7) in 1967.{{cite web | url=https://drumheller.civicweb.net/Documents/DocumentDisplay.aspx?Id=13207 | title=Town of Drumheller Municipal Development Plan: Volume 1 Background Study | publisher=Town of Drumheller and Palliser Regional Municipal Services | type=PDF | page=7 | date=April 21, 2008 | accessdate=October 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420042307/https://drumheller.civicweb.net/Documents/DocumentDisplay.aspx?Id=13207 | archive-date=April 20, 2014 | url-status=dead }}
Demographics
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Newcastle (1926-1961)
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| source = Statistics Canada{{cite book | title=Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1936 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | volume=I: Population and Agriculture | page=835 | location=Ottawa | year=1938}}{{cite book | url=https://ia801601.us.archive.org/24/items/1951981951M71954engfra/1951981951M71954engfra.pdf | title=Ninth Census of Canada, 1951 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | volume=SP-7 (Population: Unincorporated villages and hamlets) | pages=55–57 | date=March 31, 1954 | accessdate=October 24, 2021}}{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/download/195692506A1957engfra/195692506A1957engfra.pdf | title=Census of Canada, 1956 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | volume=Population of unincorporated villages and settlements | pages=56–59 | date=October 25, 1957 | accessdate=October 24, 2021}}{{cite book | url=https://ia802805.us.archive.org/16/items/1961925281963engfra/1961925281963engfra.pdf | title=1961 Census of Canada: Population | series=Series SP: Unincorporated Villages | volume=Bulletin SP—4 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | location=Ottawa | pages=63–67 | chapter=Population of unincorporated places of 50 persons and over, Alberta, 1961 and 1956 | date=April 18, 1963 | accessdate=October 24, 2021}}
|1926|281
|1931|304
|1936|1,278
|1941|1,000
|1951|1,317
|1956|1,132
|1961|949
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Newcastle (1961-1966
including Bankview)
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| source = Statistics Canada{{cite book | url=https://ia600307.us.archive.org/10/items/1966926331968engfra/1966926331968engfra.pdf | title=Census of Canada 1966: Population | series=Special Bulletin: Unincorporated Places | volume=Bulletin S–3 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | location=Ottawa | pages=184–187 | chapter=Population of unincorporated places of 50 persons and over, 1966 and 1961 (Alberta) | date=August 1968 | accessdate=October 24, 2021}}
|1961|1,276
|1966|960
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Over the course of its incorporation, Newcastle had a population of 281 and 304 in 1926 and 1931 respectively. Despite its dissolution in 1931, the former village grew to a population of 1,278 in 1936 and peaked at a population of 1,317 in 1951. It then declined to a population of 949 in 1961.