Enchant | |
Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Enchant in Alberta |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
Subdivision Type2: | Census division |
Subdivision Name2: | No. 2 |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipal district |
Subdivision Name3: | Municipal District of Taber |
Government Type: | Unincorporated |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Municipal District of Taber Council |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | −7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −6 |
Coordinates: | 50.17°N -112.4225°W |
Elevation M: | 810 |
Enchant is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Taber. It is on Highway 526 and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, between Vauxhall and Lomond. It has an elevation of 810m (2,660feet).
The hamlet is located in census division No. 2 and in the federal riding of Medicine Hat.
Enchant was once incorporated as a village but was dissolved from village status on February 1, 1945.[1] The railroad arrived in 1914 and the first grain elevator was completed in 1915.[2] Enchant was the site of the 1917 founding of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada.[3]
The Municipal District of Taber's 2016 municipal census counted a population of 259 in Enchant,[4] a change from the hamlet's 2013 municipal census population of 289.[5]