City Status Eligibility
There are currently nine towns – Beaumont, Canmore, Chestermere, Cochrane, High River, Okotoks, Stony Plain, Strathmore, and Sylvan Lake – that are eligible for city status having populations in excess of 10,000. In 2009, the Town of Hinton expressed interest in incorporating as a city once it surpasses 10,000 people. Its population in 2011 was 9,640.
Read more about this topic: List Of Towns In Alberta
Famous quotes containing the words city and/or status:
“Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happy as possible.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)