Campsie | |
Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Campsie |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Central Alberta |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 13 |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
Subdivision Name4: | County of Barrhead No. 11 |
Government Type: | Unincorporated |
Leader Title1: | Governing body |
Leader Name1: | County of Barrhead No. 11 Council |
Established Title: | Established |
Population As Of: | 1991 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 65 |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | −07:00 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −06:00 |
Coordinates: | 54.1278°N -114.6467°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | 780, 587, 825 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Campsie is a hamlet in central Alberta within the County of Barrhead No. 11, located approximately west of Barrhead then north of Highway 18, roughly northwest of Edmonton. It has an elevation of 660m (2,170feet).[2]
The hamlet took its name, in 1909, from Campsie, in Scotland, the ancestral home of an early postmaster.[3] The post office operated until 1969.[4] The community was a block settlement established by Black Canadian homesteaders from Oklahoma and Texas, within four to five years of Alberta becoming a province in 1905.[5]
Campsie recorded a population of 65 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.[1]