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Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
Provincial Geospatial Centre
7804277374
14th Floor, Oxbridge Place
9820 - 106 Street NW
Edmonton
Alberta
T5K 2J6
CA
PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca
08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday
20250207
ArcGIS Metadata
1.0
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3.0
File Geodatabase
3.0
FGDB
ZIP
Altalis Ltd.
4037163490
4037163494
Suite 1550, 635 - 8 Avenue SW
Calgary
Alberta
T2P 3M3
CA
support@altalis.com
08:00 to 16:30 Monday to Friday
The layer is a part of the Base Features product which can be accessed and downloaded via the Open Data option from Altalis: https://www.altalis.com/
https://geospatial.alberta.ca/titan/rest/services/boundaries/municipal_communities_public/MapServer
REST
boundaries/municipal_communities_public (Map Server)
Map image REST service containing populated places in Alberta
https://geospatial.alberta.ca/portal/home/item.html?id=24c8aa099c5b470c8da41afcb72bfac4
HTTPS
Communities
Map image service portal page with linkage to Esri feature service and open web map service (WMS)
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SHP
ZIP
Village
2025-02-07T00:00:00
2001-06-01T00:00:00
2025-02-03T00:00:00
Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
Provincial Geospatial Centre
7804277374
14th Floor, Oxbridge Place
9820 - 106 Street NW
Edmonton
Alberta
T5K 2J6
CA
PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca
08:15 to 16:30, Monday to Friday
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Village dataset is comprised of all the polygons that represent Villages in Alberta. Village is a municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act. The formation of a Village can occur when a majority of the buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1850 square meters and there is a population of 300 or more.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
The Village dataset provides users with GIS ready polygonal representation of all Villages in the province of Alberta, and is suitable for indexing or analysis purposes.
Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
Provincial Geospatial Centre
7804277374
9820 - 106 Street NW
14th Floor, Oxbridge Place
Edmonton
Alberta
T5K 2J6
CA
PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca
08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday
Alberta, Canada
Municipality
Urban municipality
Villages
Alberta
Canada
Municipality
Urban Municipality
Villages
To access the data you must agree to the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence
Your use of this information will be governed by the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, in force as of the date you accessed the information, found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence
Distribution Liability: Under the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, the Information is licensed as is, and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information, and will not under any circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage caused by its use or otherwise arising in connection with this licence or the Information, even if specifically advised of the possibility of such loss, injury or damage.
Public/Unrestricted
Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification
https://imtpolicy.sp.alberta.ca/standards/Pages/Data-and-Information-Security-Classification.aspx
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Villages in Alberta are defined by Orders-in-Council. Besides name, each Village has a numeric identifier (i.e. 0150 for Hines Creek) designated by Alberta Municipal Affairs documented in the Municipal Codes. The Municipal Codes document also contains the number of Alberta municipalities by type (i.e. City, Improvement District, etc.).
Village.shp
Altalis Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta
Altalis Ltd.
Village.shp is part of a zip file delivered to Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta monthly that contains shapefiles of all municipality types maintained by Altalis.
Altalis Ltd. is the designated agent of Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP) who provides the monthly update of the Village shape file to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, if there are changes commencing Nov. 2005.
Base Features initial compilation.
2001-06-01T00:00:00
Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
Provincial Geospatial Centre
AEP.GDAMetadata@gov.ab.ca
Source data was ADP Municipal Boundary Village shape file. Amisk had an intersection issue which did not get loaded. As there were no boundary update differences since last Base Features Village version, and as a quick workaround, Amisk was taken out from the previous departmental Alberta Data Partnerships Village layer and loaded into Village shape layer. As Amisk was compiled to the Base Features standard, and thus had slight geometric variation from the most recent boundary representation in the ADP Village shipment. Names were populated according to Base Features Geoadministrative Areas specification standard.
2005-11-01T00:00:00
The latest MS Excel spreadsheet of the Municipal Codes is downloaded from the Alberta Municipal Affairs website and converted to dBase III format. The Village table (VILL_NAME and VILL_CODE) of the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification, is updated according to the Altalis Ltd. Municipal Boundary Change Tracking spreadsheet, and converted from MS Word to dBase III format. The original source Village Shape file received from Altalis is processed, using a Informatics AML, to obtain a formatted Shape file preserved with the same original spatial accuracy. A 2nd AML is run to obtain polygons attributed according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Village table standard (i.e. VILL_NAME and VILL_CODE). The formatted shape polygon attribute values are validated against the Municipal Codes with the VILL_NAME normalized with upper/lower case according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Village table.
2005-11-01T00:00:00
Barnwell: Label change (O.C. 3/2008). Cremona: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 46/2008).
2008-06-01T00:00:00
Marwayne: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 470/2008). Tilley: Annexation of land from county (O.C. 462/2008).
2008-10-01T00:00:00
Hussar: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 531/2008). Loughead: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 544/2008).
2008-12-01T00:00:00
Source data was March 2009 ADP Municipal Boundary Town shape file. Thorsby: boundary correction.
2009-03-01T00:00:00
Source data was May 2009 ADP Municipal Boundary Town shape file. Boyle: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 52/2009).
2009-05-01T00:00:00
Kinuso: Dissolved (O.C. 407/2009). Thorhild: Dissolved (O.C. 131/2009).
2009-10-01T00:00:00
Milo: Boundary modification due to annexation (O.C. 565/2009).
2010-02-01T00:00:00
for Foremost: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 58/2010).
2010-03-11T00:00:00
for Chipman: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 68/2010). Currency date
2010-03-25T00:00:00
Currency date
2010-05-01T00:00:00
Boyle: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 275/2010 Currency 20100910). Derwent: Dissolved (O.C. 229/2010 Currency 20100714). New Sarepta: Dissolved (O.C. 230/2010 Currency 20100714) .
2010-11-01T00:00:00
Forestburg: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 342/2010, currency
2010-12-01T00:00:00
Nobelford: Correction changing boundary to include plan 7301HG.
2011-01-01T00:00:00
Nobelford: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 403/2010). Warburg: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 476/2010).
2011-02-01T00:00:00
Foremost: Annexation (O.C. 125/2011)
2011-06-01T00:00:00
Tilley - annexation (O.C. 462/2008 Oct. 1, 2008)
2012-04-01T00:00:00
Galahad - Annexation (O.C. 248/2012, July 24 2012); New Norway - Dissolution (O.C. 328/2012, October 17 2012)
2012-12-01T00:00:00
Tilley - Dissolved (O.C. 250/2013)
2013-09-01T00:00:00
Barnwell - Land separation (O.C. 3/2008)
2014-05-01T00:00:00
Village of Minburn - Dissolved into hamlet (O.C. 152/2015 June 24, 2015)
2015-09-01T00:00:00
Village of Galahad - Dissolved into hamlet (O.C. 259/2015 Nov. 17, 2015). Village of Strome - Dissolved into hamlet (O.C. 260/2015 January 1, 2016).
2016-01-01T00:00:00
Irma - Annexation (O.C. 298/2015 Dec. 18, 2015). Ryley - Annexation (O.C. 297/2015 Dec. 18, 2015).
2016-02-01T00:00:00
Chipman - Description changed but did not affect the boundary limits (O.C. 53/2016 March 8, 2016). Only the metadata changed but not the data.
2016-05-01T00:00:00
Thorsby - Dissolve. Name change from village to town (O.C. 344/2016 Dec. 13, 2016).
2017-03-01T00:00:00
Willingdon - Dissolve to Hamlet (O.C. 240/2017 July 12, 2017; Code = 0352). Botha - dissolve to Hamlet (O.C. 239/2017 July 12, 2017; Code = 0038)
2017-09-01T00:00:00
Nobleford - Change to Town (O.C. 28/2018 Feb. 21, 2018)
2018-04-01T00:00:00
Status Change The Village of Ferintosh (O.C. 190/2019 Oct 08, 2019). The Village of Ferintosh dissolves and becomes a hamlet in Camrose County. Annexation The Village of Forestburg (O.C. 277/2019 Dec 03, 2019) Updated Boundary for Village of Forestburg
2020-01-06T00:00:00
Update - Village of Gadsby - Dissolve Village of Gadsby into County of Stettler (O.C. 16/2020. Feb 1. 2020)
2020-04-08T00:00:00
Update - Village of Cereal(O.C. 384/2020), Dewberry(O.C. 385/2020), and Wabamun(O.C. 386/2020) dissolved and become Hamlets
2021-01-11T00:00:00
Update - Village of Hythe(O.C. 168/2021) dissolved and become hamlets
2021-07-05T00:00:00
Update - Boundary for the Village of Hussar (O.C. 406/2022; Dec. 14, 2022)
2024-10-04T00:00:00
Update - the village of Caroline became a hamlet by amalgamating with Clearwater County (O.C. 358/2024); the village of Halkirk became a hamlet by dissolving into the County of Paintearth No. 18. (O.C. 362/2024)
2025-02-03T00:00:00
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Alberta Cabinet (Orders-in-Council) and Alberta Municipal Affairs (Municipal Codes)
Feature Class
80
OBJECTID
OBJECTID
OID
4
10
0
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
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Village name
Alberta Municipal Affairs and Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification
Municipal Codes
Alberta Municipal Affairs
VILL_NAME
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VILL_CODE
Village code number
Alberta Municipal Affairs and Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification
Municipal Codes
Alberta Municipal Affairs
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SHAPE
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0
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Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
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SHAPE.STLength()
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0
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