Mountain View County
| Mountain View County | ||
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| Coordinates: 51°39′57″N 114°07′52″W / 51.66583°N 114.13111°WCoordinates: 51°39′57″N 114°07′52″W / 51.66583°N 114.13111°W | ||
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 Canada
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 Alberta
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| Region | Central Alberta | |
| Census division | No. 6 | |
| Established | March 15, 1944 as M.D. of Mountain View No. 280 | |
| Incorporated | January 1, 1961 as County of Mountain View No. 17 | |
| Name changed | January 21, 1998 to Mountain View County | |
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| • Reeve | Bruce Beattie | |
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Mountain View County Council
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| • CAO | Tony Martens | |
| • Office location | north of Didsbury | |
| Area (2016) | ||
| • Land | 3,782.64 km2 (1,460.49 sq mi) | |
| Population (2016) | ||
| • Total | 13,074 | |
| • Density | 3.5/km2 (9/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | MST (UTC-7) | |
| Website | mountainviewcounty |
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Mountain View County is a municipal district in Division No. 6 in the central Alberta, Canada. Located between the cities of Calgary and Red Deer within the Calgary-Edmonton corridor, its municipal office is located north of the Town of Didsbury. Mountain View County is a member of the Central Alberta Economic Partnership, Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties, and the Municipal Area Partnership.
The first government surveys of the area between Calgary and Edmonton were not made until 1883, around the time when the Canadian Pacific Railway arrived from Eastern Canada in Calgary, then just a small settlement. Just to the east of where the busy Queen Elizabeth II highway runs today, people and goods travelled between Calgary and Fort Edmonton by wagon along the original Calgary and Edmonton Trail. In 1890, the Calgary and Edmonton Railway was chartered, and construction began, with the line reaching the area now comprising the county by the end of that year.
While a handful of squatters had arrived pre-1890, settlement in the area did not begin in earnest until the arrival of the C & E Railway. On July 27, 1891, the first through train made the trip from Calgary to Strathcona, marking the beginning of regular scheduled passenger train service for the next 60 years. The operation of Calgary & Edmonton Railway passed to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which continues to operate the line as its main Calgary-Edmonton connection.
After 1891, homesteaders began to arrive in the region from across Europe and North America, with settlements sprouting up around the fourth (Carstairs), fifth (Didsbury) and sixth (Olds) sidings.
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