Spedden | |
Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Spedden |
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: | 12 |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
Subdivision Name4: | Smoky Lake County |
Government Type: | Unincorporated |
Leader Title1: | Governing body |
Leader Name1: | Smoky Lake County Council |
Established Title: | Established |
Population As Of: | 1991 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 56 |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | −07:00 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −06:00 |
Coordinates: | 54.1386°N -111.7256°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | 780, 587, 825 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Spedden is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Smoky Lake County. It is located north of Highway 36, approximately southwest of Cold Lake.
Spedden was named after one of the original surveyors who died in the area in 1919. Previously it bore the name Cache Lake.[2]
Spedden received a Canadian National rail-line in 1919, and by the end of the year St. Paul residents pushed the line another 50 kilometres through Ashmont to their locality.[3]
Spedden recorded a population of 56 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.[1]