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Monitor, Alberta
Hamlet
St. Laurence Church in Monitor
St. Laurence Church in Monitor
Monitor, Alberta is located in Alberta
Monitor, Alberta
Monitor, Alberta
Location in Alberta
Monitor, Alberta is located in Canada
Monitor, Alberta
Monitor, Alberta
Location in Canada
Country Canada
Province Alberta
Special Area No. 4
Population
 (1991)
 • Total 60
Time zone UTC−07:00 (MST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC−06:00 (MDT)
GNBC Code FCZKZ

Monitor is a small community called a hamlet in the eastern part of Alberta, Canada. It is located within Special Area No. 4. You can find Monitor on Highway 41. It is about 215 kilometres (134 mi) (134 miles) north of the city of Medicine Hat.

Monitor's Past

Monitor used to be a small town with its own local government. But on January 1, 1946, it changed. Monitor stopped being a village and became part of a larger area called Improvement District No. 331. This means it is now managed by the Special Areas Board.

People of Monitor

In 1991, Statistics Canada counted the number of people living in Monitor. The official count from the 1991 Census of Population showed that 60 people lived there.

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