The County of Warner No. 5 is a municipal district in southern Alberta

Southern Alberta

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, Canada

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It is located in Census Division 2

Division No. 2, Alberta

Division No. 2 is a census division in Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south-central portion of southern Alberta and includes the City of Lethbridge.- Census subdivisions :...

, just north of the United States

United States

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 border. Warner was organised as a rural municipality

Rural municipality

A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a form of municipality in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, perhaps best comparable to counties or townships in the western United States...

 since 1912, and established in the actual borders since 1954. The seat of the municipality is located in Warner

Warner, Alberta

Warner is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located in County of Warner, approximately 65 km south of the city of Lethbridge. Warner is a farming community. Warner is situated at the intersection of Highway 4 and Highway 36, about 38 km north of the Montana border and...

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Demographics

In 2006, the County of Warner No. 5 had a population of 3,674 living in 887 dwellings

House

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, a 3.3% decrease from 2001. However, this population has since been revised by Statistics Canada to 3,776. Using the pre-revised Statistics Canada data, the County of Warner No. 5 had a land area of 4519.77 km² (1,745.1 sq mi) and a population density

Population density

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 of 0.8 /km2.

In 2001, the County of Warner No. 5 had a population of 3,798 in 880 dwellings, a 6.7% increase from 1996. On a surface of 4,516.09 km² it had a density of 0.8 inhabitants/km².

Tourism and attractions

• Stirling Agricultural Village
  Stirling Agricultural Village
  Stirling Agricultural Village is a National Historic Site of Canada, and was listed as one of only three communities in Canada designated as a National Historic Site because of the community’s well preserved settlement pattern that follows the Plat of Zion model...
  
  , National Historic Site of Canada
• Warner elevator row
  Warner elevator row
  Warner elevator row is a row of historic wood-cribbed grain elevators with six elevators all standing in a row from south to north, alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway, that travels from Great Falls, Montana to Lethbridge, Alberta, on the east entrance of the village of Warner, Alberta, Canada...
  
  , last surviving "Grain Elevator Row" in Alberta.
• Galt Historic Railway Park
  Galt Historic Railway Park
  The Galt Historic Railway Park, collects, preserves, restores, exhibits and interprets artifacts which represent the history and social impact of the "steam" era in southern Alberta and the coal era with emphasis on Galt Railway and the 1890 International Train Station Depot North West Territories...
  
  
• Michelsen Farmstead
  Michelsen Farmstead
  The Andreas Michelsen Farmstead, originally built in 1902 by Andreas himself as a two room house. In 1912 the house was added onto, to make 7 rooms in total, little has changed since...
  
  
• William T. Ogden House
  William T. Ogden House
  William T. Ogden House is a historic Neo-Classical Georgian style brick mansion located on in Stirling, Alberta, Canada. Construction of the house began in 1910 and was finished in 1919 by William T. Ogden. The house has been a rooming house, pool hall and a dance studio, and in 1934 it became a...
  
  
• Lost Frontier Mini-Railway
• Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
  Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
  Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located about 100 kilometres southeast of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada or 44 kilometres east of the community of Milk River, and straddles the Milk River itself. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a...
  
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• Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum
  Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum
  Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum, located in Warner, Alberta, Canada, is a key historic site in southern Alberta. In 1997, ten fossilized dinosaur eggs, believed to have come from a Hadrosaur, specifically a Hypacrosaurus were found at Devil's Coulee site...
  
  
• Centennial Park
• Stirling Elevator
  Stirling Elevator
  Stirling elevator is a large concrete grain terminal located three quarters of a mile north east of the town of Stirling, Alberta. The elevator stands 200 feet tall and is surrounded by grain fields that stretch out for hundreds of miles east, north and south.The large elevator was built between...
  
  
• Neils Hogenson House
  Neils Hogenson House
  The Neils Hogenson home is an original catalogue order house purchased through the T. Eaton’s Co. Catalogue and built by Mr. Neils Hogensen. Shipped from Winnipeg by train, the home came to Stirling in crates with instruction, including shingles, lumber, doors, moldings, windows, paint, nails,...
  
  
• Andrew Larson House
  Andrew Larson House
  The Andrew Larson House is a historic home located in Stirling. The house was built in 1906 by Andrew Larson, Sr. and has similarities to the Michelsen home. The house started as a two-room house, Larsen added on to the home in 1910 just before his mission to Denmark.-The Larson Family:Andrew...
  
  
• Temple Hill
  Temple Hill (Warner County, Alberta)
  Temple Hill is an isolated hill located three kilometres north of Raymond, Alberta, Canada in Warner County.Temple Hill was so-named by Mormon settlers of Southern Alberta because some thought that it would be an appropriate site for a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
  
  
• Raymond Golf Club
• Milk River Golf Club

Events

• Stirling Settler Days
  Stirling Settler Days
  Stirling Settler Days is a celebration held every year on July 24 in Stirling, Alberta, Canada.Stirling Settler Days is celebrated to mark the Mormon pioneers' arrival in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847...
  
  
• Victorian Prairie Christmas - Galt Railway Park
• Raymond Stampede
  Raymond Stampede
  The Raymond Stampede is an annual rodeo that is held in the town of Raymond, Alberta, Canada every 1 July. It is notable for being Alberta's oldest and Canada's second oldest rodeo event, having been instituted a full decade before the world-famous Calgary Stampede.The Stampede was first held in...
  
  

History

The County of Warner No. 5 comprises approximately 50 townships, and is bordered
on the south by the Canadian-United States border, It is composed of the former
Municipal District of Warner No. 36 and a portion of the former Municipal
District of Sugar City No. 37.

The following is the events that lead to the incorporation of the County of Warner No. 5:

• January, 1913 - Municipal District of Warner No. 36 incorporated
  Municipal corporation
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• January 23, 1923 - Municipal District of Sugar City No. 37 incorporated.

• 1942 - Sugar City Municipality enlarged to include Local Improvement District

No. 7 and portions of Local Improvement Districts 8, 38 and 67.

• January 6, 1950 - Warner Municipality enlarged to include Milk River
  Milk River, Alberta
  Milk River is a town in the province of Alberta, Canada, located on and named after the Milk River, which flows immediately to its south. It is south of Lethbridge, and from the Canada-U.S. border. It is primarily a service centre for the many farms and cattle ranches which surround...
  
  , Coutts
  Coutts, Alberta
  Coutts is a village in Alberta and the location of one of the busiest Canada – US border crossings in western Canada. It connects Highway 4 to Interstate 15, an important trade route between Alberta, American states along I-15, and Mexico.In 2004, a joint border facility opened in Coutts-Sweet...
  
   and Masinasin
  Masinasin, Alberta
  Masinasin is a former community in Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located off Highway 501 on Range Road 133, approximately east of the Town of Milk River and north of the United States-Canada border and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park...
  
   districts.

• December 31, 1953 - Sugar City dissolved and portion added to the Municipal District of Warner.

• January 1, 1954 - County of Warner No. 5 incorporated.

Communities

The following communities are located in this municipal district:

Towns

• Milk River
  Milk River, Alberta
  Milk River is a town in the province of Alberta, Canada, located on and named after the Milk River, which flows immediately to its south. It is south of Lethbridge, and from the Canada-U.S. border. It is primarily a service centre for the many farms and cattle ranches which surround...
  
  
• Raymond
  Raymond, Alberta
  Raymond is a town in Warner County, Alberta, Canada. It is located in southern Alberta south of Lethbridge on Highway 52. Raymond is known for its annual rodeo and its large Mormon population...
  
  

Villages

• Coutts
  Coutts, Alberta
  Coutts is a village in Alberta and the location of one of the busiest Canada – US border crossings in western Canada. It connects Highway 4 to Interstate 15, an important trade route between Alberta, American states along I-15, and Mexico.In 2004, a joint border facility opened in Coutts-Sweet...
  
  
• Stirling
  Stirling, Alberta
  Stirling is a village in the County of Warner No. 5, Alberta, Canada. The village is located on Highway 4, approximately southeast of Lethbridge and northwest of the United States-Canada border....
  
  
• Warner
  Warner, Alberta
  Warner is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located in County of Warner, approximately 65 km south of the city of Lethbridge. Warner is a farming community. Warner is situated at the intersection of Highway 4 and Highway 36, about 38 km north of the Montana border and...
  
  

Hamlets

• New Dayton
  New Dayton, Alberta
  New Dayton is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located on Highway 4 between the villages of Stirling and Warner, approximately southeast of Lethbridge.- Services and amenities :...
  
  
• Wrentham
  Wrentham, Alberta
  Wrentham is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located southeast of the intersection of the Veteran Memorial Highway and the historic Red Coat Trail , approximately east of the Village of Stirling, south of the Town of Taber and west of the Village of...
  
  

Other unincorporated communities

• Allerston
  Allerston, Alberta
  Allerston, formerly Allersville, is an unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located approximately east of the Town of Milk River and north of the United States-Canada border on Township Road 24, off Highway 501. All that remains of Allerston is a...
  
   (Doran)
• Conrad
• Clarinda
  Clarinda, Alberta
  Clarinda is a former unincorporated community in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located south of Highway 501, southeast of the Town of Milk River, and east of the Village of Coutts. It is approximately southeast of the City of Lethbridge.-Education:Clarinda...
  
  
• Craddock
  Craddock, Alberta
  Craddock is a former unincorporated community in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located between the villages of Stirling and Hamlet of New Dayton, approximately southeast of the City of Lethbridge on Highway 4.- History :...
  
  
• Judson
  Judson, Alberta
  Judson is a former unincorporated community in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located on Highway 61 between the villages of Stirling and Wrentham, approximately southeast of the City of Lethbridge.- Regional attractions :...
  
  
• Knappen
• Lucky Strike
• Masinasin
  Masinasin, Alberta
  Masinasin is a former community in Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located off Highway 501 on Range Road 133, approximately east of the Town of Milk River and north of the United States-Canada border and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park...
  
  
• Maybutt
  Maybutt, Alberta
  Maybutt also known as “New Stirling” or "New Town" is a former locality in Warner County, Alberta, Canada. The unincorporated community is situated 1 km north of the old town of Stirling just off the CANAMEX Corridor between Lethbridge and the United States-Canada border...
  
  
• McNab
  McNab, Alberta
  McNab is a former unincorporated community in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located on Highway 506 between the Hamlet of New Dayton and the Village of Warner, approximately southeast of the City of Lethbridge....
  
  
• One-Seventeen
  One-Seventeen, Alberta
  One-Seventeen is a former unincorporated community in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located south of Highway 501, south of the Town of Milk River, and west of the Village of Coutts. It is approximately southeast of the City of Lethbridge.-Education:Bankview...
  
  
• St. Kilda
  St. Kilda, Alberta
  St. Kilda is a former unincorporated community in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located south of Highway 500 on township road 12-1A, southeast of the Town of Milk River, and east of the Village of Coutts. It is approximately southeast of the City of...
  
  
• Two-Fifteen

Education

Westwind School Division No. 74

Westwind School Division No. 74

Westwind School Division No. 74 is a public school board serving the counties of Warner and Cardston.-Schools:Cardston* Cardston Elementary School * Cardston Jr. High School * Cardston High School Glenwood* Glenwood School...

 and Horizon School Division No. 67 provide education within the boundaries of the County of Warner No. 5.

Early school districts

Listed below are the former school districts that once provided education within the County of Warner No. 5.

Name & SD No.	Image	Location Alberta Township System The Alberta Township System is a land surveying system used in the Canadian province of Alberta and other parts of western Canada.-History and background:...	Date Established	Date Closed/ Disbanded	Notes
Galt/Stirling No. 647		29 - 6 - 19 - W4	19 November 1901		Originally named Galt, the name was changed to Stirling in 1957.
Raymond No. 700		8 - 6 - 20 - W4	1 May 1902
Mammoth No. 1379		24 - 5 - 20 - W4	9 August 1905
Warner No. 1675		10 - 4 - 17 - W4	31 July 1907
Tyrells Lake No. 2007		20-5-17-W4	8 July 1909	1939	Demolished 1940s
Milk River Valley/Masinasin No. 2024		15 - 2 - 13 - W4	24 August 1909		Originally named Milk River Valley, the name was changed to Masinasin in 1941.
Milk River No. 2056		15 - 2 - 13 - W4	8 October 1909
Grain No. 2597		15-1-11-W4	25 November 1911
West Butte/St. Kilda No. 2747		11-1-12-W4	25 May 1912		Originally named West Butte, the name was changed to St. Kilda in 1920.
Indian Rock No. 2540		18-1-12 -W4 moved? to 11 - 1 - 12 - W4	25 August 1911
Locke No. 2730		31-1-13 -W4 Moved? to 28 - 2 - 13 - W4	10 May 1912
Clarinda No. 2459		8-1-13 -W4	10 June 1911
Verburg No. 2439		33-1-14 -W4	10 May 1911
Sexton Creek No. 2510		9-1-14 -W4 moved? to 33 - 1 - 14 - W4	24 July 1911
Lind No. 2170		34-1-16 -W4	25 April 1910
John Joes No. 2198		24-1-17-W4	26 May 1910		Also spelled John Jo
Two Fifteen No. 2153		20-2-15-W4	26 March 1910 March 26		Moved to Milk River for a class room when the district was joined with Milk River Consolidated District 12, December 1945
Sleepy Hollow No. 2634		24-2-15-W4	25 January 1912
Lucky Strike No. 2589		17-3-11-W4	9 November 1911
Prairie Round No. 2152		21-3-12-W4	26 March 1910 March 26
Patience No. 2156		23-6-17-W4	26 March 1910
Maybutt		32-6-19-W4	1912
Kippen No. 2080		34-2-12-W4	9 December 1909	1933	Kippenville Consolidated 7 created in 1915 by Kippen & Green Villa disorganized in 1933
Bankview No. 3042		16-1-17-W4	1913	1953
Craddock/Bluesky No. 3456		33 - 81 - 2 - W6	15 February 1917		Originally named Craddock, the name was changed to Bluesky in 1947.
Coutts No. 3560		4 - 1 - 15 - W4	30 October 1917
North Wrentham No. 3618		7 - 16 - W4	18 February 1918
Wrentham No. 3617		36 - 6 - 17 - W4	18 February 1918
Conrad No. 4077		11 - 61 - 12 - W4	3 November 1921

External links

• County of Warner No. 5