Alberta Highway 550
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| Maintained by Alberta Transportation | ||||
| Length: | 39.5 km (24.5 mi) | |||
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| West end: |
 Hwy 1 (TCH) near Bassano
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 Hwy 36 near Duchess
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| East end: |
 Hwy 873 in Duchess
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| Specialized and rural municipalities: |
County of Newell | |||
| Villages: | Rosemary, Duchess | |||
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Provincial highways in Alberta
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Provincial highways in Alberta
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 550 is an east-west highway in southern Alberta, Canada. It is a two-lane undivided highway in the County of Newell runs from the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1), 5 km (3 mi) southeast of the Town of Bassano, through the Village of Rosemary, to Highway 873 in Village of Duchess. Township Road 212 functions as a western extension of Highway 550 and connects to Bassano.
Highway 550, along Highway 873 between Brooks and Duchess, was originally designated as part of Highway 2, which at the time was an east-west inter-provincial highway that ran through Calgary and Medicine Hat (the present-day Highway 2 was designated as Highway 1). In 1941, Highway 2 was renumbered to Highway 1 to allow for continual numbering through Western Canada along the future Trans-Canada Highway, which was commissioned in 1949. In the mid-1950s, the Trans-Canada Highway was realigned between Brooks and Bassano, resulting in the Duchess-Bassano section being decommissioned and reverting to the County of Newell. When the Secondary Highway system was established in the 1960s and 1970s, the route became Highway 550.
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