List of former urban municipalities in Alberta

The Province of Alberta currently has 260 urban municipalities including 19 cities, 106 towns, 84 villages and 51 summer villages.[1] In addition, there are 96 communities that previously held some form of urban municipality status. These include 2 former cities, 14 former towns, 2 former new towns, 77 former villages, and 1 former summer village. These communities no longer exist as independent urban municipalities due to amalgamation, annexation or dissolution.

List
Former urban
municipality		 Former
status		 Original
name		 Dissolution
date
Albert ParkVillage August 1, 1935[2]
AldersonVillageCarlstadtJanuary 31, 1936[3]
BellevueVillage January 1, 1979[4]
BellisVillage January 1, 1946[5]
BeverlyTown December 30, 1961[6]
BlackieVillage August 31, 1997[7]
BlairmoreTown January 1, 1979[4]
Bow CityVillage April 17, 1918[8]
BownessTown August 15, 1964[9]
BurdettVillage January 1, 2003[10]
CadoganVillage January 1, 1946[5]
CayleyVillage June 1, 1996[11]
ChinookVillage April 1, 1977[12]
ClairmontVillage January 1, 1946[5]
ClunyVillage September 15, 1995[13]
ColemanTown January 1, 1979[4]
CommerceVillageCoalgateMay 13, 1926[14]
CompeerVillage December 31, 1936[15]
CraigmyleVillage January 1, 1972[16]
Crescent HeightsVillage January 1, 1911[17]
CynthiaNew town May 1, 1959[18]
DerwentVillage September 1, 2010[19]
Diamond CityTown June 30, 1937[20]
DrinnanVillage April 1, 1957[21]
DunmoreVillage February 4, 1919[22]
EagleshamVillage December 31, 1996[23]
East CalgaryVillage July 17, 1919[24]
EnchantVillage February 1, 1945[25]
EntwistleVillage December 31, 2000[26]
ErskineVillage May 10, 1946[27]
EvansburgVillage June 30, 1998[28]
EvartsVillage May 27, 1916[29]
FerintoshVillage January 1, 2020[30]
Forest LawnTown December 30, 1961[31]
Fort AssiniboineVillage December 31, 1991[32]
Fort McMurrayCityMcMurrayApril 1, 1995[33]
FrankVillage January 1, 1979[4]
GadsbyVillage February 1, 2020[34]
GalahadVillage January 1, 2016[35]
GleichenTown March 31, 1998[36]
Grande CacheTown January 1, 2019[37]
Grand CentreTown October 1, 1996
GranumTown February 1, 2020[38]
Grassy LakeVillage July 1, 1996[39]
GrouardVillage January 15, 1944[40]
Hairy HillVillage December 31, 1996[41]
IrvineTown December 31, 1996[42]
IslayVillage March 15, 1944[43]
Jasper PlaceTownWest Jasper PlaceAugust 17, 1964[6]
JennerVillage June 25, 1943[44]
KinusoVillage September 1, 2009[45]
Lac La BicheTown August 1, 2007[46]
LangdonVillage January 1, 1946[5]
LavoyVillage April 30, 1999[47]
LilleVillage 
LodgepoleNew town March 1, 1970[48]
LundbreckVillage April 30, 1906[49]
MinburnVillage July 1, 2015[50]
MirrorVillage January 1, 2004[51]
MonarchVillage December 31, 1938[52]
MonitorVillage January 1, 1946[5]
MontgomeryTown August 15, 1963[53]
Mountain ViewVillage September 9, 1915[54]
New NorwayVillage November 1, 2012[55]
New SareptaVillage September 1, 2010[56]
NewcastleVillage May 21, 1931[57]
North EdmontonVillage July 22, 1912[58]
North Red DeerVillage December 31, 1947[59]
OhatonVillage January 1, 1946[5]
Pincher CityVillage May 3, 1932[60]
PlamondonVillage May 1, 2002[61]
Port CornwallVillage September 11, 1917[62]
RadwayVillage December 31, 1996[63]
RanfurlyVillage January 1, 1946[5]
RetlawVillage March 1, 1939[64]
RichdaleVillage June 2, 1931[65]
RiversideVillage 
RosebudVillage January 1, 1946[5]
RouleauvilleVillage 
RumseyVillage April 1, 1995[32]
SangudoVillage September 16, 2007[46]
StaffordVillage January 1, 1913[66]
StrathconaCitySouth EdmontonFebruary 1, 1912[6]
StromeVillage January 1, 2016[67]
SuffieldVillage January 1, 1930[68]
SwalwellVillage January 1, 1946[5]
ThorhildVillage April 1, 2009[45]
TilleyVillage August 31, 2013[69]
TollertonVillage January 26, 1918
TorringtonVillage December 31, 1997[70]
WalshVillage May 4, 1925[71]
WanhamVillage December 31, 1999[47]
WarspiteVillage June 1, 2000[26]
West EdmontonVillage April 5, 1917[72]
White GullSummer village January 1, 2003[73]
WildwoodVillage December 31, 1990[74]
WillingdonVillage September 1, 2017[75]

See also

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