660 miles
Dec 6 – Monarch is a hamlet of about 220 people living in 90 homes. This poignant picture of the former café-tavern-hotel inspired me to want to learn more about each town I (virtually) visit, to do justice to the lives of the people who really live there.
Dec 6 – Monarch is a hamlet of about 220 people living in 90 homes. This poignant picture of the former café-tavern-hotel inspired me to want to learn more about each town I (virtually) visit, to do justice to the lives of the people who really live there.
A hamlet, in the province of Alberta, is an unincorporated
community administered by a “rural municipality”. It consists of five or more dwellings, has a
generally accepted boundary and name, and contains parcels of land used for
non-residential purposes.
A hamlet can be incorporated as a village when its
population reaches 300. However, according
to Wikipedia, Alberta has not had a hamlet incorporate as a village in over 30
years. Since 1980, “it has been more
common for urban municipalities to dissolve from their current municipal status
to that of a hamlet under the jurisdiction of its surrounding specialized or
rural municipality.” More ghost towns
with hints of former glory.
info: Wikipedia.com
info: Wikipedia.com
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