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Madden Alberta Information

Madden is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada, under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County. _x000D_ Madden is located approximately 46 kilometres (29 mi) north of Downtown Calgary on Highway 574, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of the Town of Crossfield on Highway 2A and 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Highway 2 (the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor). _x000D_ The hamlet was named after Bernard Madden, an early pioneer and a prominent rancher who arrived in the area in 1876. The post office was opened on May 1, 1931. _x000D_ Madden has a community hall and curling rink, meat processor, campground, fire station and an 18-hole golf course. Madden has also been host to a few film crews, including the 2008 production Mayerthorpe (seen on CTV), which was shot at various locations near the hamlet. _x000D_ Madden was once located on a Canadian Pacific Railway spur from Collicutt to Cremona and had two elevators. The rail grade can still be seen as it goes behind the Madden Ice Cream Store (the old Dodd’s General Store) west from the hamlet through the Ag Society grounds and east towards Nier Lakes. _x000D_ In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Madden had a population of 10 living in 6 of its 10 total private dwellings, a change of -64.3% from its 2016 population of 28. With a land area of 0.07 km2 (0.027 sq mi), it had a population density of 142.9/km2 (370.0/sq mi) in 2021. _x000D_ population of Madden according to the 2018 municipal census conducted by Rocky View County is 26, an increase from its 2013 municipal census population count of 21. _x000D_ Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1992). Place Names of Alberta – Volume II, Southern Alberta, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta. _x000D_ Read, Tracey (1983). Acres and Empires – A History of the Municipal District of Rocky View, Calgary, Alberta. _x000D_ _x000D_ This Calgary Metropolitan Region location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it._x000D_ _x000D_ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden,_Alberta