Английская Википедия:Donalda
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.[1] It is home to the "World's Largest Oil Lamp", standing at Шаблон:Convert 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.[2] It was renamed Donalda in 1910, when the railroad came through.[3]
Demographics
In the 2021 census conducted by Statistics Canada, the village of Donalda had a population of 226 living in 109 of its 123 total private dwellings, a change of Шаблон:Percentage from its 2016 population of 219. With a land area of Шаблон:Cvt, it had a population density of Шаблон:Pop density in 2021.[4]
In the 2016 census conducted by Statistics Canada, the village of Donalda recorded a population of 219 living in 115 of its 131 total private dwellings, a Шаблон:Percentage change from its 2011 population of 259. With a land area of Шаблон:Convert, it had a population density of Шаблон:Pop density in 2016.[5]
Education
Donalda School has about 80 students from pre-kindergarten to grade 9.[6]
Notable people
- Cody Cassidy, steer wrestler
- Robert E. Collin, electrical engineering professor
- Tricia Helfer, actor and model, best known for playing Number Six in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series[7]
See also
References
External links
Шаблон:Geographic location Шаблон:Subdivisions of Alberta
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- ↑ "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.
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- ↑ Profile, tvguide.com; accessed April 12, 2014.