Sherwood Park, Alberta
| Sherwood Park | |||
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| Location in Alberta | |||
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| State : |
 Canada
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| Province : | Alberta | ||
| Region - Municipal District: |
Edmonton Capital Region - Strathcona County |
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| Coordinates : | 53 ° 31 ′ N , 113 ° 18 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 68,782 (as of 2015) | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain Time ( UTC − 7 ) | ||
| Municipality number: | 0523 | ||
| Foundation : | 1955 | ||
Sherwood Park is a village in the western Canadian province of Alberta and has the semi-official status of an urban service area . It has 68,782 inhabitants and borders directly on the provincial capital Edmonton in the east . The village is the administrative seat of the administrative municipality ( English specialized municipality ) Strathcona County .
The municipality is crossed by several major traffic routes. In the north of the village runs, in addition to the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway , Alberta Highway 16 , which is also called the Yellowhead Highway and is the northern route of the Trans-Canada Highway . Highway 216 runs to the west of the village and Highway 21 to the east .
Sons of the place
- Tony Twist (* 1968), ice hockey player
- Ryan McGill (born 1969), ice hockey player and coach
- Scott Langkow (* 1975), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Ben Ondrus (* 1982), ice hockey player
- Cam Ward (* 1984), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Jay Blankenau (* 1989), volleyball player
- Cody Kunyk (* 1990), ice hockey player
- Daniel Carr (born 1991), ice hockey player
- Carter Hart (* 1998), ice hockey goalkeeper
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2014 Municipal Codes. (PDF, 348.21 KB) Alberta Municipal Affairs , accessed November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Census (2015) . www.strathcona.ca. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ↑ Capital Region Geography ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . capitalregionboard.ab.approx. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
