Campsie, Alberta


Campsie is a hamlet in central Alberta within the County of Barrhead No. 11, located approximately west of Barrhead then north of Highway 18, roughly northwest of Edmonton. It has an elevation of.
The hamlet took its name, in 1909, from Campsie, in Scotland, the ancestral home of an early postmaster. The post office operated until 1969. The community was a block settlement established by Black Canadian homesteaders from Oklahoma and Texas, within four to five years of Alberta becoming a province in 1905.

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