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'{{Location map|Canada Alberta|lat=50.852|long=-113.470|width=200|caption=Location of Carseland, [[Alberta]]|label=Carseland}} '''Carseland''' is a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] in [[Alberta]], [[Canada]] within [[Wheatland County, Alberta|Wheatland County]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/documents/msb/2010-ruralmun.pdf |title=Specialized and Rural Municipalities and Their Communities |author=Alberta Municipal Affairs |authorlink=Alberta Municipal Affairs |date=2010-04-01 |accessdate=2010-07-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229060335/http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/documents/msb/2010-ruralmun.pdf |archivedate=2012-02-29 |df= }}</ref> It is located on [[Alberta Highway 24|Highway 24]], approximately {{convert|23|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of [[Cheadle, Alberta]] and {{convert|26|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of [[Strathmore, Alberta|Strathmore]]. It is within [[Division No. 5, Alberta|Alberta Census Division No. 5]]. == History == {{Refimprove|date=July 2010}} The advent of the cattlemen in the late 1800s to the Bow River country west of the Blackfoot Indian Reserve brought men like: Major General Thomas Bland Strange (1881), Charlie Hawks, Colonel Arthur Goldfinch, Felix McHugh (1886) and Colonel Arthur Wyndham (1887) to the Carseland area. When the Military Colonization Company, which Strange had founded ceased to exist, the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] (CPR) permitted free grazing on their {{convert|3000000|acre|km2}} on the north side of the Bow and it attracted many new settlers to the area. The Addemans, Moffats and McGregors purchased the Horsetrack from the Goldfinchs and started the Horsetrack Cattle Company in 1901. Others such as Groves, Moorhouse, Brown, McHughes, McKinnon and Newbolts soon followed. When the [[open range]] came to an end most of the areas cattlemen became the first grain farmers of the district. In 1903, the CPR brought irrigation to its large land acquisitions in the Carseland area. As the land prospered and more product was being shipped by rail to market, the CPR began construction of the Gleichen/Shepard cut-off in 1913. These rails carried troops to the [[World War I|First World War]] in 1914. Due to its proximity to the river crossing and railway, Carseland grew rapidly into a prosperous community during the 1920s through 1940s. It boasted six grain elevators, a railway station, school, general store, barber shop and pool-room, post office, restaurant, garage and [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] car dealer, well house, lumber yard, hardware store, meat market, bank, stock yards, two churches, hotel and community centre. Only three original buildings still standing on Railway Avenue are the hotel, the post office was formerly the Carseland Meat Market owned by the Bonitz family (and is now in the one strip mall) and the former hardware store - all of which were built in 1916. == Demographics == As a designated place in the [[Canada 2016 Census|2016 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Carseland recorded a population of 525 living in 215 of its 228 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:525-568}}|568|1}} from its 2011 population of 568. With a land area of {{convert|0.57|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|525|0.57|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2016.<ref name=2016censusABdpls>{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=1301&SR=1&S=45&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48&CMA=0#tPopDwell | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and designated places, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Alberta) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 8, 2017 | accessdate=February 13, 2017}}</ref> As a designated place in the [[Canada 2011 Census|2011 Census]], Carseland had a population of 568 living in 208 of its 223 total dwellings, a -3.4% change from its 2006 population of 588. With a land area of {{convert|0.64|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|568|0.64|km2|sqmi}} in 2011.<ref name=statcan2011dpl>{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=1302&PR=48&S=51&O=A&RPP=25 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and designated places, 2011 and 2006 censuses (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=2012-02-08 | accessdate=2012-04-06}}</ref> == Economy == Carseland's main employers include [[Agrium]], [[Orica]] and Stella-Jones. == See also == *[[List of communities in Alberta]] *[[List of designated places in Alberta]] *[[List of hamlets in Alberta]] == References == {{Reflist}} {{Canadian City Geographic Location (8-way) | Northwest = [[Calgary, Alberta|Calgary]]<br>[[Langdon, Alberta|Langdon]] | North = [[Cheadle, Alberta|Cheadle]] | Northeast = [[Strathmore, Alberta|Strathmore]]<br>[[Namaka, Alberta|Namaka]] | West = [[Dalemead, Alberta|Dalemead]] | Centre = Carseland | East = [[Gleichen, Alberta|Gleichen]] | Southwest = [[Okotoks]] | South = [[Mossleigh, Alberta|Mossleigh]]<br>[[Vulcan, Alberta|Vulcan]] | Southeast = }} {{Alberta|hamlets=yes}} {{Coord|display=title|name=Carseland, Alberta|50.852|N|113.470|W|scale:30000_region:CA-AB}} [[Category:Hamlets in Alberta]] [[Category:Calgary Region]] [[Category:Wheatland County, Alberta]] [[Category:Designated places in Alberta]] {{CalgaryRegion-geo-stub}}'