General information about our area, the M.D. of Acadia #34

• We are an area in South Eastern Alberta some 12.5 townships in size.
• We are a dryland farming area with some 276,000 acres of arable agricultural land.
• 177,000 acres are under dryland cultivation and about 1200 acres are under irrigation.
• 93,000 acres are native grasslands and about 4800 acres are improved pasture / hayland.
• The population of the municipality is some 545 people.
• Of the 545, about 135 people live in the Hamlet of Acadia Valley.
• We also have the Acadia Hutterian Brethern Colony, with about 110 residents.
• We have some 670 kilometers of improved roadways, 280 kilometers of bladed trails, 60 kilometers of Municipal Highways, 48 kilometers of Paved Secondary Highway and 48 kilometers of Primary Highway.
• Our southern border, some 48 kilometers in length, is the Red Deer River as it flows east to Saskatchewan.
• We are bordered by the Special Areas of Alberta on the north, south & west and the Province of Saskatchewan on the east.
• The primary highway that runs through our area, north to south, is the 41, (also known as the Buffalo Trail).
• We are one of the few Municipalities in the area (incorporated when Alberta was first opened up to homesteads) which survived the 30's and the great depression in "the black". This is reinforced when one realizes that this is the reason we are bordered by the Special Areas. The governance of those lands was taken over in the 30's by the Provincial Government; drastic steps to assist people in unfortunate circumstances.

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