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Cayley is a designated place (an unincorporated hamlet) in southern Alberta located 73 kilometers 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. Quentin Cayley, a barrister and the publisher of the Calgary Herald in 1884, who also represented Calgary in the Northwest Territories legislature from 1886 to 1894[2]. The hamlet originally contained three grain elevators; all have been demolished, [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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Coordinates: 50°26′24.0″N 113°54′0″W / 50.44, -113.9 (Cayley)
