Cayley, Alberta

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Cayley is a designated place (an unincorporated hamlet) in southern Alberta located 73 kilometres south of Calgary along Highway 2A. It is located in the Municipal District of Foothills in Alberta Census Division No. 6. The population according to the 1996 Statistics Canada census is 334^[1]. It lies near the intersection of Highways 2A and 2 south of the town of High River, Alberta.

The community was named for the Hon. Hugh St. Quenton Cayley, a barrister and the publisher of the Calgary Herald in 1884, who also represented Calgary in the Northwest Territories legislature from 1886 to 1891^[2]. The hamlet originally contained three grain elevators; all but one have been demolished, and the third may be in danger of demolition if the rail line passing through the hamlet is decommissioned^[3]. Cayley is also home to a Hutterite colony and a colony school; in 2001, two Cayley Colony girls were the first students from an Alberta colony school to write provincial diploma exams and graduate from high school^[4].

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1. ^ Statistics Canada counted the population of Cayley as part of the Town of High River in the 2001 census.
2. ^ http://www.pioneersalberta.org/profiles/c.html#cayley
3. ^ http://www.prairielight.org/index2.htm
4. ^ http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Quick+Links/Publications/ATA+News/Volume+36/Number+1/In+the+News/Two+firsts+for+Cayley+Colony+School.htm

Coordinates: 50°26′24.0″N, 113°54′0″W