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This article is about the metropolitan area surrounding and including the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. For other places called, see Calgary (disambiguation).

The Calgary Region is the metropolitan area based around Calgary, Alberta. The borders of this area are defined differently for each of the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) and the Calgary Region. The area is a major transportation hub for southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, eastern British Columbia, and parts of the northern United States. It is served by the Calgary International Airport, the third busiest airport in the country.

Unlike many major North American urbanized areas, yet similarly to other prairie centres in Canada, Calgary developed as a unicity as it incorporated most of its suburbs into the city proper. In the past, when the city limits reached the borders of neighbouring municipalities, such as Bowness, Montgomery and Midnapore, they were simply annexed into the population of Calgary. With Chestermere now a neighbour, and as Calgary's city limits continue to extend north of the airport towards Airdrie, it is highly unlikely that these populous centres will meet the same fate as did their predecessors. Still, the vast majority of the region's 1.26 million inhabitants reside within the City of Calgary proper whose civic population has itself well surpassed the 1,000,000 mark.[1]

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Calgary CMA

Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) is the definition Statistics Canada uses to determine the demographics of greater Calgary (as well as other large Canadian cities). The Calgary CMA includes the City of Calgary, Rocky View County, all urban municipalities enclosed within Rocky View County (the City of Airdrie, the Towns of Cochrane, Chestermere, Crossfield, and Irricana and the Village of Beiseker) and the Tsuu T'ina Nation. Rocky View also includes a number of unincorporated hamlets, the largest being Bragg Creek, and large country residential areas such as Bearspaw and Springbank.

According to Statistics Canada estimates dated July 1, 2009, the Calgary CMA recently surpassed the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA to become the 4th largest metropolitan area in the country with an estimated population of 1,230,248.[2] It is also the largest CMA in Alberta and has a land area of 5,083 square kilometres (1,962.6 sq mi).

Census Division No. 6

Statistics Canada also uses a greater area centered on Calgary, Census Division No. 6, for regionalized statistical purposes. It is larger than the CMA, extending further south to include the Municipal District (M.D.) of Foothills No. 31 and the municipalities that it encloses (most notably the towns of Okotoks and High River) and further north to include Mountain View County.

Calgary Regional Partnership

The Calgary Region (economic region) is essentially represented by the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP). The CRP is a cooperative of economically associated municipalities in the area. Since the CRP is an organization and not an area per se, not all of the municipalities within the sphere of what is effectively greater Calgary are members. Unlike the CMA, the Calgary Economic Region had an estimated population of 1,263,447 in 2009. The Calgary Regional Partnership includes the Rocky View County, the City of Airdrie, the towns of Okotoks, Cochrane, Chestermere and High River, and the M.D. of Foothills No. 31. It also includes the Town of Canmore, and the M.D. of Bighorn No. 8 to the west and the Town of Strathmore to the east. The towns of Crossfield and Banff are recent additions to the CRP. Many of the communities in the CRP are also part of the Calgary Health Region. The population of the CRP is predicted to reach 1.3 million by 2012.

The CRP and its member municipalities have drafted a regional plan that outlines the Partnership's vision for a sustainable region and its concept for development over the next 60 – 70 years. They have begun sharing the draft plan with the public at a series of open houses in March and April. According to an article in the March 4, 2009 issue of the Western Wheel newspaper in Okotoks, opposition to the plan is mounting.

List of Municipalities

Municipality CMA CRP Population.[1] Year
Cities
Airdrie * * 38,091 2009
Calgary * * 1,065,455 2009
Towns
Banff * 7,437[1] 2007
Black Diamond * 2,308 2009
Canmore * 12,226[2] 2009
Chestermere * * 13,760 2009
Cochrane * * 15,424 2009
Crossfield * * 2,648 2006
High River * 11,582 2009
Irricana * 1,243 2006
Okotoks * 21,690 2009
Strathmore * 11,838 2009
Turner Valley * 2,022 2008
Villages
Beiseker * 837 2008
Rural municipalities
M.D. of Bighorn No. 8 * 1,454 2006
M.D. of Foothills No. 31 * 19,736 2006
Rocky View County * * 34,171 2006
First Nations reserves
Tsuu T'ina Nation * * 1,373 2007
Total 1,263,295

Footnotes

  • ^ Does not include non-permanent population of 1,284.
  • ^ Does not include non-permanent population of 5,744.

See also


References

  1. ^ a b Alberta Municipal Affairs. "Alberta 2009 Official Population List". http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/LGS/2009pop.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-11. 
  2. ^ "Annual population estimates and demographic factors of growth by census metropolitan area, Canada, from July to June — Population estimates and factors of growth". Statistics Canada. July 1, 2009. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-214-x/2008000/t021-eng.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-10. 

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North America : Canada : Prairies : Alberta : Calgary Region

Calgary Region is the region surrounding the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Traditionally an agricultural area, it is a mix of suburban towns and semi-rural areas that are becoming bedroom communities to Calgary.

  • Calgary — home to many of Canada's oil companies, the Calgary Stampede, one-time Olympic host and the largest city in Alberta
  • Airdrie — suburb of Calgary
  • Black Diamond — small town southwest of Calgary
  • Cochrane - suburb NW of Calgary
  • High River
  • Longview - Home of the Bar U Ranch, a Canadian National Historic Site [1]
  • Okotoks - visit Big Rock, (also known as Okotoks Erratic), a glacial erratic situated between the towns of Okotoks and Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada (18 kilometres south of Calgary). The 15,000 tonne (16,500 short ton) quartzite boulder is the world's largest known glacial erratic.
  • Strathmore
  • Turner Valley
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