Milk River, Alberta

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Aerial view of Milk River on Alberta Highway 4

Milk River is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta on Alberta Highway 4 .

The Milk River , after which the place is named, flows nearby . The place is about 70 km south of Lethbridge , 44 km west of Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park and 16 km from the Canada-USA border.

In 1956 the place was officially declared a city. Statistics Canada determined the population of 827 in 2016.

Granary in Milk River

The area around the village is used for agriculture, so there are several granaries on the outskirts. There is a primary school founded in 1961 and a secondary school that opened in 1910.

The Catholic Church of St. Peter is in the place. St. Paul is the church of the United Church of Canada . Evangelicals are also represented.

There is a 9 hole golf course.

To the east of the site is a site for fossils of mammalian teeth. There emerges an outcrop of a geological, sandstone -shaped layer from the Santonium period in the sedimentary basin of western Canada .

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  8. ^ John Acorn: Deep Alberta - Fossil Facts and Dinosaur Digs. 2007, p. 93
  9. ^ David A. Eberth: Hadrosaurs, 2015, p. 137

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '  N , 112 ° 5'  W