Rolling Hills, Alberta
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Rolling Hills is a hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in southern Alberta
Alberta
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, Canada
Canada
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 within the County of Newell. Rolling Hills was founded in 1939 by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) with settlers from dried out regions of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

 and Alberta.

Industry

Rolling Hills’ primary industry is agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

. Specialty crops grown in the area include dry edible beans, sugar beets, potatoes, seed canola and seed alfalfa. Cattle have always been a major part of the agricultural landscape in the Rolling Hills area.

Education

One school, serving Kindergarten through Grade 9, is located in Rolling Hills. After Grade 9, students attend high school in Brooks
Brooks, Alberta
Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada surrounded by the County of Newell. It is located on Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an elevation of .- History :The area that is now Brooks was originally...

, which is approximately 50 km northwest of Rolling Hills.

Services and businesses

Rolling Hills has a bank, a savings credit union, a post office, a service garage, a welding shop, a trailer manufacturer and three churches.

Amenities

Rolling Hills has a nine-hole golf course, a community hall with an attached curling rink, an ice hockey rink, an exercise establishment and a park with camping facilities.
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