Livability
MoneySense Best Places to Live
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Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
#41
Latest · 2018 · of 415
Alberta
Sylvan Lake
Forest-named beach town west of Red Deer
Sylvan Lake in brief
After Treaty 6, French-speaking settlers from Quebec and the United States homesteaded the southeast shore of what Cree called Snake Lake for its garter snakes. Alexandre Loiselle arrived from Michigan in 1898; the official name became Sylvan Lake in 1903, from Latin for of a forest.
Estonian and Finnish homesteaders followed, two railways arrived in the 1910s, and the town incorporated in 1913. About a million visitors a year still chase the beach, and locals mark founding day with a cheerful annual 1913 Days celebration.
Drawn from Wikipedia, Sylvan Lake beachfront.
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City Score over time
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Rankings for Sylvan Lake
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Worth knowing in Sylvan Lake
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
It is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the City of Red Deer along Highway 11 or Highway 11A.
It is on the southeast edge of Sylvan Lake, a 15-kilometre-long (9.
3 mi) freshwater lake that straddles the boundary between Red Deer County and Lacombe County.
Sylvan Lake developed as a railway-era resort town and remains one of Alberta's busiest inland beach destinations.
Places to see
Sylvan Lake beachfront
A long sandy beach on a prairie resort lake that has drawn central Alberta summer crowds for generations.
