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Redwater is a pretty small town North of Edmonton, but it deserves a robust Wiki entry due to it's current and future economic importance to Alberta. Many people (local and not-so-local) believe that this town is poised for a spectacular boom. Em3rald 19:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the following from the article as it contains a gross over-approximation of the town's population in the 1950s.
Notwithstanding the town's website states "Redwater grew from a hamlet of 160 people to approximately 4000 during the oil boom", a review of the more reliable sources of the annual " official population list" published by Alberta Municipal Affairs and the 1951 and 1956 federal censuses indicate that its population did not surpass 1,400 people in the 1950s. It is difficult to deem the approximation of 4,000 to be credible when two other credible sources, publishing census counts, report the population throughout the decade being a fraction of the approximation.
I will re-add some of the information from the deleted content back to the article shortly (with references). Hwy43 ( talk) 04:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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Redwater is a pretty small town North of Edmonton, but it deserves a robust Wiki entry due to it's current and future economic importance to Alberta. Many people (local and not-so-local) believe that this town is poised for a spectacular boom. Em3rald 19:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the following from the article as it contains a gross over-approximation of the town's population in the 1950s.
Notwithstanding the town's website states "Redwater grew from a hamlet of 160 people to approximately 4000 during the oil boom", a review of the more reliable sources of the annual " official population list" published by Alberta Municipal Affairs and the 1951 and 1956 federal censuses indicate that its population did not surpass 1,400 people in the 1950s. It is difficult to deem the approximation of 4,000 to be credible when two other credible sources, publishing census counts, report the population throughout the decade being a fraction of the approximation.
I will re-add some of the information from the deleted content back to the article shortly (with references). Hwy43 ( talk) 04:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)