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词条 Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
释义

  1. History

  2. Communities and localities

  3. Demographics

  4. Attractions

  5. Trivia

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. External links

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The Municipality of Crowsnest Pass is a specialized municipality located in the Crowsnest Pass of the Rocky Mountains in southwest Alberta, Canada. The municipality formed as a result of the amalgamation of five municipalities – the Village of Bellevue, the Town of Blairmore, Town of Coleman, the Village of Frank and Improvement District No. 5 (which included the Hamlet of Hillcrest) – on January 1, 1979. Today, Blairmore and Coleman remain the two largest communities while Frank is the smallest. Crowsnest, Passburg, and Sentinel (Sentry Siding[4]) are other former communities (abandoned, or much reduced) within the municipality's boundaries.

History

The municipality owes its existence to coal mining, the area's primary industry since the first mine opened in 1900. Its ethnic and cultural diversity comes from the many European and other immigrants attracted to the area by the mines. Through the years' coal mining suffered from fluctuating coal prices, bitter strikes, and underground accidents, and all the mines on the Alberta side closed throughout the 20th century as cheaper, safer open-pit mines opened on the British Columbia side of the pass. There is an operating coal mine just across the B.C. border in Sparwood which continues to provide significant employment for the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass.

Crowsnest Pass is known for tragedy. In 1903 the tip of Turtle Mountain broke loose and decimated part of the Village of Frank (the Frank Slide). In 1914, the Hillcrest mine disaster occurred in the Hillcrest Mine, killing 189 men. Serious spring floods occurred in 1923 and 1942. Periodic forest fires have swept the valley, including one in the summer of 2003 that threatened the entire municipality.

The area was a centre for "rum-running" during the prohibition of 1916 - 1923 when liquor was illegally brought across the provincial border from British Columbia. This legacy is celebrated at the restored Alberta Provincial Police Barracks, now an interpretive centre.

For more detailed area history, see the entries for Coleman, Blairmore, Frank, Hillcrest and Bellevue.

Communities and localities

The following communities are the former municipalities that comprise the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass:[5]

Former
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  • Blairmore
  • Coleman
Former
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  • Bellevue
  • Frank
Former
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  • Improvement District No. 5 (part)
  • Improvement District No. 6 (part)

The following localities are located within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass:[6]

Localities
  • Crowsnest
  • East Kootenay
  • Hazell
  • Hillcrest or Hillcrest Mines
  • Savanna
  • Sentinel

Demographics

{{Historical populations|footnote=[7][8][9][10][11][12][15][3]
|1976|7286
|1981|7306
|1986|6912
|1991|6679
|1996|6356
|2001|6262
|2006|5749
|2011|5565
|2016|5589
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In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass recorded a population of 5,589 living in 2,567 of its 3,225 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:5589-5565}}|5565|1}} from its 2011 population of 5,565. With a land area of {{convert|371.44|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|5589|371.44|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2016.[13]

In the 2011 Census, the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass had a population of 5,565 living in 2,586 of its 3,234 total dwellings, a change of -3.2% from its 2006 population of 5,749. With a land area of {{convert|373.07|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|5565|373.07|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2011.[14]

Attractions

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Within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, one can find the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre (Provincial Historic Site), an interpretive display at Leitch Collieries (Provincial Historic Site), underground tours of the Bellevue Mine (Provincial Historic Resource), interpretive signs at the Hillcrest Cemetery (Provincial Historic Resource) and both the Crowsnest Museum and Alberta Provincial Police Barracks interpretive centre within Coleman National Historic Site. Pamphlets for self-guided historical walking and driving tours are available trhoughout the municipality.

The area offers hiking, fishing and mountain-biking in the summer, and in winter snowmobiling, a downhill ski hill, and a groomed cross-country ski area, and is about {{convert|70|km|mi}} from major ski hills at both Fernie Alpine Resort and Castle Mountain Resort.

Trivia

  • Blairmore elected Canada's first Communist town council under mayor Bill Knight during the Great Depression.[15][16] (See Blairmore, Alberta for more information)
  • Crowsnest Pass was the site of a train robbery in 1920.
  • Alberta's first female mayor, Clemence Jepson (1914-2010), was elected in Bellevue in November 1963.
  • The gravy recipe for Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken was developed here.[17]
  • The frontier town in Disney's 1985 film The Journey of Natty Gann was shot here.

See also

  • List of communities in Alberta
  • Specialized municipalities of Alberta

References

1. ^{{AMOS}}
2. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/MunicipalProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=BasicReport&MunicipalityType=SMUN&stakeholder=361&profileType=HIST&profileType=CONT&profileType=STAT&profileType=FINA&profileType=GRAN&profileType=TAXR&profileType=ASSE |author=Alberta Municipal Affairs |authorlink=Alberta Municipal Affairs |title=Municipal Profile – Municipality of Crowsnest Pass |date=2010-09-17 |accessdate=2010-10-02}}
3. ^
4. ^{{cite book|last=Crowsnest Pass Historical Society|title=Crowsnest and its people|year=1979|publisher=Crowsnest Pass Historical Society|location=Coleman|isbn=0-88925-046-4|page=241|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=3559659}}
5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/msb/2011_pop.pdf | title=2011 Municipal Affairs Population List | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | date=2012-10-05 | accessdate=2012-08-18 | isbn=978-0-7785-9738-4}}
6. ^{{cite web | url=http://stds.statcan.gc.ca/sgc-cgt/2006/ersl-rerl-fin-eng.asp?criteria=4815007 | title=Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2006, Economic Regions: 4815007 - Crowsnest Pass, geographical codes and localities, 2006 | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=2010-03-05 | accessdate=2012-08-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525211536/http://stds.statcan.gc.ca/sgc-cgt/2006/ersl-rerl-fin-eng.asp?criteria=4815007 | archive-date=2013-05-25 | dead-url=yes | df= }}
7. ^{{cite book | title=1981 Census of Canada | volume=Volume II: Provincial series, Population, Geographic distributions (Alberta) | year=1982 | publisher=Statistics Canada | location=Ottawa | page=4.1–4.10| chapter=Table 4: Population and Total Occupied Dwellings, for Census Divisions and Subdivisions, 1976 and 1981 | isbn=0-660-51095-2}}
8. ^{{cite book | title=Census Canada 1986 | volume=Population and Dwelling Counts – Provinces and Territories (Alberta) | year=1987 | publisher=Statistics Canada | location=Ottawa | page=2.1–2.10 | chapter=Table 2: Census Divisions and Subdivisions – Population and Occupied Private Dwellings, 1981 and 1986 | isbn=0-660-53463-0}}
9. ^{{cite book | title=91 Census | volume=Population and Dwelling Counts – Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions | year=1992 | publisher=Statistics Canada | location=Ottawa | pages=100–108 | chapter=Table 2: Population and Dwelling Counts, for Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 1986 and 1991 – 100% Data | isbn=0-660-57115-3}}
10. ^{{cite book | title=96 Census | volume=A National Overview – Population and Dwelling Counts | year=1997 | publisher=Statistics Canada | location=Ottawa | pages=136–146 | chapter=Table 10: Population and Dwelling Counts, for Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions (Municipalities) and Designated Places, 1991 and 1996 Censuses – 100% Data | isbn=0-660-59283-5}}
11. ^{{cite web | title=Population and Dwelling Counts, for Canada, Provinces and Territories, and Census Divisions, 2001 and 1996 Censuses - 100% Data (Alberta) | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census01/products/standard/popdwell/Table-CSD-D.cfm?PR=48 | publisher=Statistics Canada | accessdate=2013-02-16}}
12. ^{{cite web | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2006 and 2001 censuses - 100% data (Alberta) | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/hlt/97-550/Index.cfm?TPL=P1C&Page=RETR&LANG=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=1&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48&CMA=0 | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=2010-01-06 | accessdate=2013-02-16}}
13. ^{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=86&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 8, 2017 | accessdate=February 8, 2017}}
14. ^{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=51&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48&CMA=0 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=2012-02-08 | accessdate=2012-02-08}}
15. ^CBC article - Blairmore elections
16. ^Blairmore the Red{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - Crowsnest Pass Promoter, Nov. 9 2007
17. ^Crowsnest And Its People, Crowsnest Pass Historical Society, 1979

External links

{{Commons category}}
  • {{official website|http://www.crowsnestpass.com}}
{{Geographic location
| Centre = Crowsnest Pass
| North = Longview
| Northeast = Claresholm
| East = Cowley
| Southeast = Pincher Creek
| South = Waterton Lakes National Park
| Southwest = Fernie
| West = Cranbrook
| Northwest = Elkford
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