| Tangent | |
| Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta#Canada |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Tangent |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Northern Alberta |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name3: | 19 |
| Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
| Subdivision Name4: | Birch Hills County |
| Government Type: | Unincorporated |
| Leader Title1: | Governing body |
| Leader Name1: | Birch Hills County Council |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Population As Of: | 1991 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 39 |
| Timezone: | MST |
| Utc Offset: | −07:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | MDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −06:00 |
| Coordinates: | 55.7986°N -117.6789°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | 780, 587, 825 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Tangent is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Birch Hills County, located along Alberta Highway 740, approximately northeast of Grande Prairie. It was named by surveyors due to the formation of a tangent (straight-section) in the rail track that ran from Edmonton to Dawson Creek.
On June 18, 1928, John Yaremko chose to settle at the current location of the hamlet, later joined by Albert Purcha and his family. The spring of 1929 brought a large group of settlers under the recruitment of Father Josephat Hamelin. In May, a general store was built, and a post office erected in the winter of that same year. Natural gas was discovered in the 1950s, opening up a new industry alongside agriculture and animal husbandry.
Today, Tangent is an agricultural community made up of mostly Franco-Albertans descended from the settlers that followed Father Hamelin, Eastern European Canadians, and Anglo-Canadians.
Tangent recorded a population of 39 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.[1]