East Coulee is a former hamlet, now unincorporated community, in Drumheller, Alberta

Alberta

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. Its hamlet status ceased when the Municipal District of Badlands No. 7, which formerly had jurisdiction over the hamlet, amalgamated with the City of Drumheller to form a town under the name of the Town of Drumheller on January 1, 1998.

East Coulee is located on Highway 10, approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) of Drumheller's main townsite and 112 kilometres (69.6 mi) northeast of Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

. It lies in the Red Deer River

Red Deer River

The Red Deer River is a river in Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River.Red Deer River has a total length of and a drainage area of...

 valley and has an elevation of 675 metres (2,214.6 ft).

The former hamlet is located in census division

Census division

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 No. 5

Division No. 5, Alberta

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 and in the federal riding

Alberta federal electoral districts

As of 2006, the province of Alberta has 28 electoral districts represented in the Canadian House of Commons.*Calgary Centre*Calgary Centre-North*Calgary East*Calgary Northeast*Calgary Southeast*Calgary Southwest*Calgary West*Calgary—Nose Hill*Crowfoot...

 of Crowfoot

Crowfoot (electoral district)

Crowfoot is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.It is in the central part of the province, and is named in honour of Chief Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot First Nations in the 19th century.This electoral district...

. Following the merger of Drumheller and the Municipal District of Badlands No. 7, East Coulee fell under the municipal administration of the newly defined Town of Drumheller.

It was one of the filming locations of the television series MythQuest

MythQuest

MythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson and Christopher Jacot as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as they discover, allows them to travel into myths by...

.

Demographics

As of 2006, East Coulee had a total population of 177 living in 94 dwellings. With a land area of 1.14 km² (0.44015646079549 sq mi), it has a population density

Population density

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of 155.3 /km2.