Lac Ste. Anne County
municipal district in Alberta, Canada
Lac Ste. Anne County is a municipal district in central Alberta, Canada.
It is located in Census Division 13, north west of Edmonton. Highway 43 stretches across this county. Its municipal office is located in the Hamlet of Sangudo.
The county was named after Lac Ste. Anne, which in turn was named for Saint Anne.
Geography
Communities and localities
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac Ste. Anne County had a population of 11,300 living in 4,547 of its 5,788 total private dwellings, a change of 3.7% from its 2016 population of 10,899. With a land area of 2,845.84 km2 (1,098.78 sq mi), it had a population density of 4.0/km2 (10.3/sq mi) in 2021.
“Lac Ste. Anne County” enters the record as municipal district in Alberta, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anne, County and municipal can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Lac Ste. Anne County” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Anne, County and municipal provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6467890. Authority coordinates are 53.850, -114.733. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2016.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Lac Ste. Anne County”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Lac Ste. Anne County primary sources, Lac Ste. Anne County archive and Anne research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
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- Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Lac Ste. Anne County” 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.