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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR2592 | | TITLE: | Lacombe County fonds | | CREATOR: | Lacombe County | | DATE RANGE: | 1902-1950 | | EXTENT: | 12.00 m of textual records. - 10 maps | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | In 1883, the Northwest Territorial Council passed the Municipal Ordinance, allowing for the establishment of local governments. In response to this ordinance, many townships, typically comprised of 36 sections of land, organized to form herd districts (1883), fire districts (1886), and statute districts (1887). The amalgamation of all three formed local improvement districts with the passing of the 1897 Local Improvement Ordinance.
Local improvement districts maintained public works such as road building, management of fires, noxious fumes, and animals. A 1903 amendment of the Local Improvement Ordinance allowed local improvement districts to include between 3 and 6 townships.
In 1912 with the passing of the Rural Municipality Act, the Province of Alberta created the Department of Municipal Affairs, and new charters and separate statues were created for municipal districts. The Act allowed 9 townships to apply for incorporation as a rural municipality, as long as the land contained 1 person/square mile. Under this provision some local improvement districts organized as municipalities while others chose to continue as local improvement districts. In 1918, the Government of Alberta forced the organization of all local improvement districts into municipalities with the Municipal Districts Act.
Lacombe County’s municipal history began in 1943 when the Municipal Districts of Lamerton No. 398, Crown No. 399 and Lorne No. 400 amalgamated to form the Municipal District of Lacombe No. 398. In 1945, the Municipal District of Lacombe No. 398 was renumbered as the Municipal District of Lacombe No. 64. In 1960, the Municipal District of Lacombe No. 64 organized into the County of Lacombe No. 14. The name of the County of Lacombe No. 14 changed to Lacombe County in 1995.
| | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of minutes, cashbooks, receipts, debentures, bylaws assessments from Municipal District of Lamberton #398, Local Improvement District 20-T-4, Local Improvement District 21-W-4, Local Improvement District #399, Municipal District of Crown #399, Local Improvement District 20-A-5, Local Improvement District #400, Municipal District of Lorne #400, and Municipal District of Lacombe #398.
In addition, the fonds contains maps illustrating the land ownership, section numbering, legal subdivisions, roads, railways, towns, school and hospital districts, and municipal boundaries for the County of Lacombe.
The fonds also includes tax assessments, school registers, and minute books from the following School Districts:
- Lacombe #243: 12-57-3-w5, 1906- ?
- Blackfalds #255 (Formerly Blindman until 1907): 27-39-27-W4 ?
- Lakeside #348: S4-40-26-W4, 1895 - 1955.
- Milton #404: 16-41-25-W4, 1896- ?
- Mirror #492: 28-40-22-W4, 1899 - 1961
- Westling #556: 17-41-24-W4, 1900 - ?
- Chapel #588: 13-40-28-W4, 1911- 1949
- Eclipse #600: SW 12-40-25-W4, 1901 - 1953
- Spring Valley #640: SW 8-40-25-W4, 1901 - ?
- Stephenson #540: SE 24-40-2-W5, 1901- 1948
- Oxford #687: 17-40-1-W5, 1902 - ?
- Birch Lake #707: 20-41-25-W4, 1902 - 1956
- Aspelund #758: 28-39-28-W4, 1902 - ?
- Lincoln 3826: NE 23-41-28-W4, 1903 - 1953
- Eckville #1459: 21-39-3-W5, 1906- ?
- Rutherford #1590: NE 32- 41-23-W4, 1906 - 1952
- Woody Nook #2454: 13-40-28-W4, 1911 - 1949
- Central #519: SW 26-40-26-W4, 1899 - ?
- Outlet #599: 16-41-1-W5, 1901 - 1949
- Carritt#930: 21-39-1-W5, 1903 - 1952
- Bluebell#1186: 33-38-3-W5, 1905 - 1955
- Sarina#1434:
- Benjamin #1586: NE 20-41-3-W5, 1906 - 1954
- Andrews#2652: 31-4-3-W5, 1912 - 1953
- Sunset Hill #2908: NE 21-40-2-W5, 1913 - ?
- Boyle #2910 (Formerly Warren): 3-65-19-W4, 1915 - ?
- Hickling #4147: NW 17-47-2-W4, 1922 - 1944
| | RELATED RECORDS: | For more material on school districts in Alberta, please see other school district, school division, and county fonds descriptions at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history sourced from:
William Peter Baergen, Pioneering with a Piece of Chalk: The One-Room Country Schools of Alberta 1885-1982, Toronto, 2005.
Municipal Profiles: http://www.municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/mc_municipal_profiles.cfm (Accessed October 3, 2014).
Eric J. Hanson, Local Government in Alberta, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1956.
Bert Wolfe, Understanding Western Canada's Land Survey System, Saskatchewan UP, 1978.
Land described according to the Alberta Township System (ATS). |
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