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Alberta Highway 779

highway in Alberta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4711735 ↗
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Alberta Provincial Highway No. 779 is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. It runs south–north from Highway 627 (Garden Valley Road) in Parkland County through the Town of Stony Plain to Highway 37 west of Calahoo in Sturgeon County. It runs along the Fifth Meridian for its entire length, which was surveyed as 114° Longitude in the Dominion Land Survey, and used by the Alberta Township System. The highway is also known as Range Road 10 in the two counties and 48 Street within Stony Plain.

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The public source identifies “Alberta Highway 779” as highway in Alberta. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alberta, Highway and highway.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 88-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alberta, Highway and highway providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alberta Highway 779” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.