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Hamlet
Panorama of Lundbreck from Alberta Highway 22
Lundbreck Location in Alberta
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Census division	No. 3
Municipal district	Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9
Government
• Type	Unincorporated
Area  (2021)
• Land	0.42 km2 (0.16 sq mi)
Elevation	1,200 m (3,900 ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	289
• Density	690.4/km2 (1,788/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)

Lundbreck is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9. It is located on the south side of Highway 3, approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the southern terminus of Highway 22, 16 km (9.9 mi) east of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, 4 km (2.5 mi) west of the Village of Cowley and 16 km (9.9 mi) west of the Town of Pincher Creek. It has an elevation of 1,200 m (3,900 ft).

It is part of Census Division No. 3 and the federal riding of Macleod.

History

Lundbreck was incorporated in 1907, celebrated its centennial in 2007, and was named for two coal miners (Lund and Breckinridge).

Lundbreck started out as a coal mining town, that quickly grew to a size of about 1,000 people until the coal mines closed, at which time it quickly shrank.

Demographics

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As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lundbreck recorded a population of 236 living in 113 of its 141 total private dwellings, a change of -3.3% from its 2011 population of 244. With a land area of 0.42 km² (0.16 sq mi), it had a population density of 561.9/km² (1,455/sq mi) in 2016.

Education

Livingstone School is a K-12, 1A school that was instituted in 1955, as a more modern alternative to the then practice of using several small, one room, multiple grade, rural schools. Kids were bussed in from the local area rural schools from Cowley and the northwest portion of the M.D. of Pincher Creek No. 9.

Notable people

• Valentine Milvain