Thorhild, Alberta
[5] It is located at the intersection of Highway 18 and Highway 827, approximately 86 kilometres (53 mi) northeast of the City of Edmonton.[2] It originally incorporated as a village on December 31, 1949.[1] The Alberta and Great Waterways Railway paid $480 for the original townsite on July 16, 1914,[6] and a Royal Mail Canada post office was immediately placed in the community.[7] In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Thorhild had a population of 391 living in 173 of its 214 total private dwellings, a change of -26.4% from its 2016 population of 531.[3] As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Thorhild had a population of 531 living in 244 of its 270 total private dwellings, a change of 8.8% from its 2011 population of 488.