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Hamlet
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Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Region	Northern Alberta
Census division	17
Municipal district	Birch Hills County
Government
• Type	Unincorporated
Area  (2021)
• Land	0.84 km2 (0.32 sq mi)
Population  (2021)
• Total	76
• Density	91/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−07:00 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−06:00 (MDT)
Area code(s)	780, 587, 825

Eaglesham is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Birch Hills County, located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of Highway 49, approximately 89 kilometres (55 mi) northeast of Grande Prairie.

The hamlet takes its name from Eaglesham in Scotland.

Eaglesham is primarily a farming community. Eaglesham also has a small K-12 school with 80 students.

Demographics

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As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Eaglesham recorded a population of 93 living in 50 of its 60 total private dwellings, a change of -21.8% from its 2011 population of 119. With a land area of 0.84 km² (0.32 sq mi), it had a population density of 110.7/km² (287/sq mi) in 2016.