Bon Accord, Alberta: Difference between revisions

|subdivision_name = Canada

|subdivision_name1 = [[Alberta]]

|subdivision_type2 = [[List of regions of Alberta|Region]]

|subdivision_name2 = [[Edmonton Metropolitan Region]]

|government_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/mc_municipal_officials_search.cfm |title=Municipal Officials Search |publisher=Government of Alberta |access-date=2017-04-30}}</ref>

|leader_title = Supreme Chancellor

|leader_name = Joe Mooney

|leader_title2 = [[Members of the Canadian House of Commons|MP]]

|leader_name2 = Joe Mooney

|established_title = Founded

|established_title1 = Incorporated<ref name=AMATownProfiles>{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/MunicipalProfiles/basicReport/TOWN.PDF | publisher=[[Alberta Municipal Affairs]] | title=Location and History Profile: Town of Bon Accord | page=71 | date=October 7, 2016 | access-date=October 13, 2016}}</ref>

|established_date1 = &nbsp;

|established_title2 = &nbsp;•&nbsp;[[List of villages in Alberta|Village]]

|established_date2 = January 1, 1964

|established_title3 = &nbsp;•&nbsp;[[List of towns in Alberta|Town]]

|established_date3 = November 20, 1979

| area_footnotes = &nbsp;(2021)<ref name=2021census/>

| area_land_km2 = 3.99

| area_urban_km2 =

| population_as_of = 2021

| population_footnotes = <ref name=2021census/><ref name=2021censusPC>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810001101 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=February 13, 2022}}</ref>

| population_note =

| population_total = 1461 <!-- 2021 StatCan census population only per [[WP:CANPOP]]; do not replace with latest municipal census population count; this municipal census population count can go in the population_blank1_title and population_blank1 parameters further below and can be noted in the article body (so long as it doesn't replace the 2021 StatCan census population in the body). -->

| population_density_km2 = 366.4

| population_urban =

| population_density_urban_km2 =

|utc_offset = −7

|timezone_DST = MDT

|utc_offset_DST = −6

|coordinates = {{coord|53|49|58|N|113|25|08|W|region:CA-AB|display=inline}}

|elevation_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.safetycodes.ab.ca/Public/Documents/PSSSOP_Handbook_Version_12_Online_Feb_21_2012b.pdf | title=Alberta Private Sewage Systems 2009 Standard of Practice Handbook: Appendix A.3 Alberta Design Data (A.3.A. Alberta Climate Design Data by Town) | publisher=Safety Codes Council | type=PDF | pages=212–215 (PDF pages 226–229) | date=January 2012 | access-date=October 8, 2013 | archive-date=October 16, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016085027/http://www.safetycodes.ab.ca/Public/Documents/PSSSOP_Handbook_Version_12_Online_Feb_21_2012b.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

'''Bon Accord''' is a [[town]] in [[central Alberta]], Canada. It is located {{convert|40|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of downtown [[Edmonton]] on [[Alberta Highway 28|Highway28]]. The name is derived from the French phrase "Bon Accord", the ancient motto of [[Aberdeen]], Scotland, the ancestral home of a first settler, Sandy Florence.<ref>{{cite book|title=Place-names of Alberta|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070267029;view=1up;seq=26|year=1928|publisher=Geographic Board of Canada|location=Ottawa|page=22}}</ref>

The [[International Dark-Sky Association]] designated Bon Accord an International Dark Sky Community in August 2015 in recognition of the town's implementation of initiatives to preserve and enhance dark night skies over the community.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://darksky.org/alberta-town-named-first-international-dark-sky-community-in-canada/ | title=Alberta Town Named First International Dark Sky Community In Canada | publisher=[[International Dark-Sky Association]] | date=August 12, 2015 | access-date=August 15, 2015}}</ref> It was the first community in Canada and eleventh in the world to earn this designation.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/bon-accord-earns-international-dark-sky-designation | title=Bon Accord earns international dark sky designation | newspaper=[[Edmonton Journal]] | publisher=[[Postmedia Network]] | date=August 14, 2015 | access-date=August 15, 2015}}</ref>

In the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], the Town of Bon Accord had a population of 1,461 living in 555 of its 590 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:1461-1529}}|1529|1}} from its 2016 population of 1,529. With a land area of {{cvt|3.99|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|1461|3.99|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000248 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=February 9, 2022}}</ref>

Inthe [[Canada 2016 Census|2016 Census of Population]] conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Bon Accord recorded a population of 1,529 living in 560 of its 578 total private dwellings, a {{percentage|{{#expr:1529-1488}}|1488|1}} change from its 2011 population of 1,488. With a land area of {{convert|2.13|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|1529|2.13|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2016.<ref name=2016censusABmunis>{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=86&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Alberta) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 8, 2017 | access-date=February 8, 2017}}</ref>

*[[List of francophone communities in Alberta]]

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[[Category:1964 establishments in Alberta]]

[[Category:Edmonton Metropolitan Region]]