Barons is a village in southern Alberta

Alberta

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is located 51 kilometres (31.7 mi) north of Lethbridge

Lethbridge

Lethbridge is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada, and the largest city in southern Alberta. It is Alberta's fourth-largest city by population after Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer, and the third-largest by area after Calgary and Edmonton. The nearby Canadian Rockies contribute to the city's...

 along Highway 23.
A scene in a Superman movie was filmed at Barons.

History

The Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

 purchased the present townsite of Barons in early 1909. Charles S. Noble

Charles Sherwood Noble

Charles Sherwood Noble invented a minimum disturbance cultivator called the Noble blade. The Noble blade cuts weed roots beneath the soil surface without turning the soil over, thus reducing topsoil loss due to wind erosion...

, an agent for the CPR sold lots to settlers. The train station was originally named "Baron", but public usage eventually evolved to "Barons".

Barons became a village on May 6, 1910 and early buildings included a hardware store, a grocery store, lumber yards, a bank, a feedmill, a dance hall, an opera house and a hotel.

Demographics

The population of the Village of Barons according to its 2010 municipal census is 326, a 9.8% increase over its 2007 municipal census population of 297.

In 2006, Barons had a population of 276 living in 135 dwellings

House

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, a 2.8% decrease from 2001. The village has an area of 0.68 km² (0.262549467842924 sq mi) and a population density

Population density

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 of 405.0 inhabitants per square kilometre.

Services

High speed wireless Internet access is available from Figment Cablesystems via the Alberta SuperNet.

External links

• Alberta First - Barons statistics

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