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Cadomin
Cadomin is a hamlet in the west-central Alberta, Canada within Yellowhead County. It is located along the McLeod River in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, approximately south of Hinton near the Bighorn Highway. It is served by a spur of the Canadian National Railway.〔Atlas of Alberta Railways. ( The Coal Branch )〕
Statistics Canada recognizes Cadomin as a designated place.〔 It is located in census division No. 14 and in the riding of Yellowhead. It is administered by Yellowhead County.
== History ==
Cadomin's name is an acronym for 'Canadian Dominion Mining',〔Temple, Robert D. ''Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places'', (2nd edition, 2009), iUniverse, page 324.〕〔Alberta Speleological Society, (Cadomin Cave )〕 and the town gives its name to the Cadomin Formation, which forms a prominent outcrop near the settlement.
Cadomin is one of many towns in the Alberta Coal Branch area that thrived from the 1920s to the 1950s. During the early 1930s, Cadomin's population peaked at 1,800.〔Ghost Towns. (Cadomin )〕 Other Coal Branch towns included Mountain Park, Luscar, Mercoal, and farther to the east, Robb, Embarras, Coalspur, Coal Valley, Lovett, and Foothills.〔(When Coal Was King: Coal Mining in Western Canada )〕
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