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Glenwood
Village
Village of Glenwood
Glenwood is located in Alberta
Glenwood
Glenwood
Location in Alberta
Country Canada
Province Alberta
Region Southern Alberta
Census division 3
Municipal district Cardston County
Incorporated  
 • Village January 1, 1961
Area
 (2021)
 • Land 1.37 km2 (0.53 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
 • Total 272
 • Density 197.9/km2 (513/sq mi)
Time zone UTC−7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC−6 (MDT)
Postal code span
T0K 2R0
Highways Highway 810
Highway 505
Waterways Belly River

Glenwood is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located north of the Town of Cardston, in Cardston County. The village was named for a man named Edward Glen Wood. The founder of the village was Edward J. Wood, successor to Mormon leader Charles Ora Card, the founder of Cardston. Both Glen and Edward Wood were from Salt Lake City, Utah, and are buried in Cardston. The old name for the village was Glenwoodville until 1979.

Demographics

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In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Glenwood recorded a population of 316 living in 107 of its 119 total private dwellings, a 10.1% change from its 2011 population of 287. With a land area of 1.37 km2 (0.53 sq mi), it had a population density of 230.7/km2 (598/sq mi) in 2016.

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