SOUTHERN ALBERTA

'Southern Alberta' is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of the year 2004, the region's population was approximately 272,017^[1][2]. The primary cities are Lethbridge and Medicine Hat The region is known mostly for agricultural production, but other sectors, such as alternative energy, film production and tourism, are emerging.

Contents

Geography

Geographic features

Adjacent regions

Infrastructure

Major highways

Health regions

Economy

Politics

Municipalities

Cities

Towns

Villages

Rural districts

Notes

External links

Geography

The region has a total area of approximately 75,500 km² (29,151 sq mi).

Geographic features

★ Rocky Mountains

★ Waterton Lakes National Park

★ Oldman River

★ Bow River

★ Red Deer River

★ South Saskatchewan River

★ Cypress Hills

★ Alberta Badlands

Adjacent regions

★ Calgary Region - North

★ Central Alberta - North

★ Alberta's Rockies - North-West

★ Kootenays - West

Infrastructure

Major highways

★ Highway 1

★ Highway 2

★ Highway 3 (Crowsnest Highway)

★ Highway 4

★ Highway 5

★ Highway 36 (Veteran Memorial Highway)

★ Highway 41 (Buffalo Trail)

Health regions

★ Calgary Health Region

★ Chinook Health

★ Palliser Health Region

Economy

In 2007, Alberta Human Resources and Employment reported the fields of finance, insurance, real estate, professions, technicians and senior managers will lead the Lethbridge–Medicine Hat region's growth with an average 2.8 per cent real GDP growth each year until 2011. The industries of manufacturing, energy, mining and forestry would account for 2.6 per cent each. All ten of these fields would account for more than half of the region's domestic product.^[3]

Sector	Labour force	% of total
Agriculture		13%
Mining		5%
Manufacturing		9%
Construction		7%
Transportation and utilities		5%
Retail and wholesale		15%
Finance		3%
Business and community services		38%
Public administration		4%

Politics

On a provincial level, southern Alberta is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta by MLAs elected in the ridings of Airdrie-Chestermere, Cardston-Taber-Warner, Cypress-Medicine Hat, Highwood, Lethbridge East, Lethbridge West, Little Bow, Livingstone-Macleod, Medicine Hat and Strathmore-Brooks.

Municipalities

Cities

★ Brooks

★ Lethbridge

★ Medicine Hat

Towns

★ Bassano

★ Bow Island

★ Cardston

★ Claresholm

★ Coaldale

★ Coalhurst

★ Crowsnest Pass

★ Fort Macleod

★ Granum

★ Hanna

★ Magrath

★ Milk River

★ Nanton

★ Oyen

★ Picture Butte

★ Pincher Creek

★ Raymond

★ Redcliff

★ Stavely

★ Taber

★ Vauxhall

★ Vulcan

Villages

★ Arrowwood

★ Barnwell

★ Barons

★ Carmangay

★ Cereal

★ Champion

★ Coutts

★ Cowley

★ Duchess

★ Empress

★ Foremost

★ Glenwood

★ Hillspring

★ Lomond

★ Milo

★ Nobleford

★ Rosemary

★ Stirling

★ Tilley

★ Warner

★ Youngstown

Rural districts

★ Municipal district of:

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★ Acadia

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★ Cardston

★ County of:

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★ Cypress

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★ Forty Mile

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★ Lethbridge

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★ Newell

★ Municipal district of:

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★ Pincher Creek

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★ Ranchland

★ Special Areas 2 and 3

★ Municipal district of:

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★ Taber

★ County of:

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★ Vulcan

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★ Warner

★ Municipal district of:

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★ Willow Creek, Municipal District of

Notes

1. Southwest Regional. Marketplace Profile, AlbertaFirst.com. Accessed 22 December 2006.
2. Southeast Regional Marketplace Profile, AlbertaFirst.com. Accessed 22 December 2006.
3. People skills key to building success Dave Mabell

External links

★ Alberta South

★ Alberta SouthWest

★ South Grow

★ Economic Development Alliance of Southeast Alberta