User:Awmcphee

Hi, I'm Alex McPhee! I live in Val Marie, am the proud holder of a University of Alberta BSc, and am a professional cartographer (seriously, this is a real job that exists).

On-wiki, I specialize in Canadian graphics and geography. Check out my other work at awmcphee.ca.

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Photographs

Peace River Country

Dr. Mary Jackson School, Keg River
Sagitawa Lookout, Peace River
Goodlow post office
Dunvegan Bridge

Northwest Territories

Norman Range, Norman Wells
Keele River
Canadian Shield, Yellowknife
Derelict Pine Point mine workings
Lady Evelyn Falls, Kakisa
Liard River, Blackstone TP

Alberta municipal district boundary signs

Athabasca
Big Lakes
Bonnyville
Cypress
Fairview
Forty Mile
Kneehill
Lac la Biche
Lacombe
Lamont
Lesser Slave River
Minburn
Opportunity
Paintearth
Pincher Creek
Ranchland
St. Paul
Smoky River
Special Areas
Spirit River
Starland
Stettler
Vulcan
Wainwright
Warner
Wheatland
Willow Creek

High effort maps

I am proud to say that these two projects launched my career and I now work full-time in... staying at home all day and producing maps of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

My electoral history

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Jeremy Patzer	24,518	71.53	–9.6	$35,741.95
	New Democratic	Alex McPhee	3,604	10.51	+1.0	$26,349.39
	People's	Charles Reginald Hislop	2,826	8.24	+5.4	$0.00
	Liberal	Mackenzie Hird	1,492	4.35	+0.1	$2,023.58
	Maverick	Mark Skagen	1,360	3.97	+3.97	$7,334.65
	Green	Carol Vandale	284	0.83	–1.1	$0.00
	Independent	Maria Rose Lewans	193	0.56	–0.01	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			34,277	99.6	–	$122,866.74
Total rejected ballots			145	0.04
Turnout			34,422	67
Eligible voters			49,606
	Conservative hold		Swing		+3.2
Source: Elections Canada^[1]

Election cartograms

These are generated using a fairly simple Python script, made as my first programming project after graduation. (Harder than it sounds, as the only thing I learned in university was Matlab.) Arranging the grid squares to minimize distortion is an art, not a science.

Provincial thematic maps

I am currently trying to make as many good thematic maps as possible to illustrate the Canadian province articles.

British Columbia

Population density
Elevation

Alberta

Population density

New Brunswick

Population density

Newfoundland and Labrador

Population density
French language ability

Ontario

Population density
Indigenous identity
Visible minorities
French ability

Quebec

Population density

Rural locator maps

British Columbia regional districts
Alberta municipal districts and counties
Saskatchewan rural municipalities
Manitoba rural municipalities
Northwest Territories administrative divisions

Urban locator maps

County locators (experimental)

Valleyview

Fox Creek

Historic federal riding locator maps

Historic Vancouver ridings
Historic rural Saskatchewan ridings
Historic Calgary ridings
Historic Edmonton ridings
Historic rural Alberta ridings
Historic Regina ridings
Historic Winnipeg ridings

Other maps

Edmonton Metropolitan Region municipalities
Calgary Metropolitan Region municipalities
Amalgamation of Winnipeg
Amalgamation of the Halifax Regional Municipality

Other graphics

Bump chart of provincial population ranks.

Articles I am proud of

DYK

Other

Navboxes created/reformatted

First Nations + Indigenous peoples

Alberta land-use framework regions

Notes and subpages

User:Awmcphee/Land Cover - Instructions for replicating the colourimetry used on my land cover maps.
User:Awmcphee/Pushpin - Some thoughts on using the locator map template for community articles.
User:Awmcphee/Maplink - Testing Template:Maplink on some Alberta municipalities. (Verdict: It only works on the largest of the bunch, and then, not accurately.)

^ "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2021.

[1] "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2021.

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v t e First Nations in the Yukon
Peoples	Gwich'in Hän Kaska Dena Northern Tutchone Southern Tutchone Tagish Tlingit Tanana Athabaskans
Governments	Carcross/Tagish Champagne and Aishihik Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Kluane Kwanlin Dün Liard River Little Salmon/Carmacks Ross River Dena Selkirk Ta'an Kwach'an Teslin Tlingit Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Vuntut Gwitchin White River
Languages	Gwich’in Hän Kaska Tutchone Tagish Tlingit Upper Tanana
Other	Yukon First Nations Party Yukon Land Claims Kaska Nation

v t e Lower Peace Region, Alberta
Towns	High Level Manning Rainbow Lake
Hamlets	Cadotte Lake Calling Lake Deadwood Dixonville Fort Vermilion La Crete Little Buffalo Marie Reine North Star Notikewin Red Earth Creek Reno Sandy Lake St. Isidore Wabasca Zama City
Métis settlements	Paddle Prairie
Municipal districts	Northern Lights Opportunity Northern Sunrise
Specialized municipalities	Mackenzie
Improvement districts	24 (Wood Buffalo)
Indian reserves	Amber River 211 Beaver Ranch 163 163A 163B Bistcho Lake 213 Boyer 164 Bushe River 207 Carcajou 187 Child Lake 164A Fort Vermilion 173B Fox Lake 162 Hay Lake 209 Jackfish Point 214 Jean Baptiste Gambler 183 John D'or Prairie 215 Loon Lake 235 Loon Prairie 237 Peace Point 222 Swampy Lake 236 Tallcree 173 173A Upper Hay River 212 Utikoomak Lake 155 155A 155B Wabasca 166 166A 166B 166C 166D Wadlin Lake 173C Woodland Cree 226 227 228 Zama Lake 210
National parks	Wood Buffalo
Provincial parks	Calling Lake Greene Valley Notikewin Caribou Mountains Grand Rapids Hay-Zama Lakes Otter-Orloff Lakes
Other topics	Fort Vermilion Peace River Wop May
Land-use framework regions of Alberta Treaty 8

v t e Lower Athabasca Region, Alberta
Cities	Cold Lake
Urban service areas	Fort McMurray Lac La Biche Plamondon
Towns	Bonnyville
Villages	Glendon
Summer villages	Bonnyville Beach Pelican Narrows
Hamlets	Anzac Ardmore Beaver Crossing Beaver Lake Beaverdam Cherry Grove Conklin Fort Chipewyan Fort Kent Fort Mackay Gregoire Lake Estates Hylo Iron River Janvier South La Corey Saprae Creek Therien Venice
Métis settlements	Elizabeth Fishing Lake
Municipal districts	Bonnyville
Specialized municipalities	Lac La Biche Wood Buffalo
Improvement districts	349
Indian reserves	Allison Bay 219 Beaver Lake 131 Charles Lake 225 Chipewyan 201 201A 201B 201C 201D 201E 201F 201G Clearwater 175 Cold Lake 149 149A 149B 149C Colin Lake 223 Cowper Lake 194A Devil's Gate 220 Dog Head 218 Fort McKay 174 174C 174D Gregoire Lake 176 176A 176B Heart Lake 167 167A Hokedhe Tue 196E Janvier 194 Kehewin 123 Ki Tue 196D Li Deze 196C Namur Lake 174B Namur River 174A Old Fort 217 Sand Point 221 Thabacha Nare 196 Thebathi 196 Tsu Kadhe 196F Tsu Tue 196G Tthe Jere Ghaili 196B Winefred Lake 194B
Provincial parks	Cold Lake Crow Lake Gregoire Lake Lakeland Moose Lake Sir Winston Churchill Birch Mountains Birch River Dillon River Fidler-Greywillow Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Gipsy Lake Grand Rapids Kazan Kitaskino Nuwenëné Marguerite River Richardson Stony Mountain Whitemud Falls
Other topics	Athabasca oil sands Athabasca River Bitumount CFB Cold Lake Peace-Athabasca Delta
Land-use framework regions of Alberta Treaty 8

v t e Upper Peace Region, Alberta
Cities	Grande Prairie
Towns	Beaverlodge Fairview Fox Creek Grimshaw McLennan Peace River Sexsmith Spirit River Valleyview Wembley
Villages	Berwyn Donnelly Girouxville Hines Creek Hythe Rycroft
Hamlets	Bezanson Bluesky Brownvale Clairmont Cleardale DeBolt Demmitt Dimsdale Eaglesham Elmworth Goodfare Grande Cache Grovedale Guy Huallen Jean Cote La Glace Landry Heights Little Smoky Peoria Ridgevalley Tangent Teepee Creek Valhalla Centre Wanham Watino Wedgewood Whitelaw Woking Worsley
Municipal districts	Birch Hills Clear Hills Fairview Grande Prairie Greenview Peace Smoky River Spirit River Saddle Hills
Improvement districts	25 (Willmore Wilderness)
Indian reserves	Alexander 134A Clear Hills 152C Duncan's 151A Horse Lakes 152B Sturgeon Lake 154 154A 154B
Provincial parks	Dunvegan Moonshine Lake O'Brien Pierre Grey's Lakes Queen Elizabeth Saskatoon Island Two Lakes Chinchaga Dunvegan West Kakwa Peace River Williamson Winagami Young's Point
Other topics	Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Edson Trail Fort Dunvegan Mackenzie Highway Peace River Country
Land-use framework regions of Alberta Treaty 8

v t e Upper Athabasca Region, Alberta
Towns	Athabasca Barrhead Edson High Prairie Hinton Mayerthorpe Onoway Slave Lake Swan Hills Westlock Whitecourt
Villages	Alberta Beach Boyle Clyde
Summer villages	Birch Cove Bondiss Castle Island Island Lake Island Lake South Larkspur Mewatha Beach Nakamun Park Ross Haven Sandy Beach Silver Sands South Baptiste South View Sunrise Beach Sunset Beach Sunset Point Val Quentin West Baptiste West Cove Whispering Hills Yellowstone
Hamlets	Atmore Blue Ridge Breynat Brule Busby Cadomin Campsie Canyon Creek Caslan Cherhill Chisholm Colinton Dapp Donatville Ellscott Enilda Evansburg Faust Fawcett Flatbush Fort Assiniboine Glenevis Goose Lake Grassland Green Court Grouard Gunn Jarvie Joussard Kinuso MacKay Manola Marlboro Marten Beach Meanook Neerlandia Nestow Niton Junction Peers Perryvale Pibroch Pickardville Pinedale Rich Valley Robb Rochester Rochfort Bridge Sangudo Smith Tawatinaw Thunder Lake Vimy Wagner Wandering River Widewater Wildwood
Métis settlements	East Prairie Peavine Gift Lake
Municipal districts	Athabasca Barrhead Big Lakes Lac Ste. Anne Lesser Slave River Westlock Woodlands Yellowhead
Specialized municipalities	Jasper
Improvement districts	12 (Jasper)
Indian reserves	Alexis 133 Alexis Cardinal River 234 Alexis Elk River 233 Alexis Whitecourt 232 Assineau River 150F Driftpile River 150 Enoch Cree Nation 135A Kapawe'no 150B 150C 150D 229 230 231 Sawridge 150G 150H Sucker Creek 150A Swan River 150E
National parks	Jasper
Provincial parks	Carson-Pegasus Cross Lake Hilliard's Bay Lesser Slave Lake Obed Lake Pembina River Rock Lake Sundance Thunder Lake William A. Switzer Winagami Lake Brazeau Canyon Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Grizzly Ridge Hubert Lake La Biche River Lesser Slave Lake Otter-Orloff Lakes Rock Lake - Solomon Creek Whitehorse Winagami
Other topics	Athabasca Landing Trail Jasper House Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage Northern Lakes College
Land-use framework regions of Alberta Treaty 6 Treaty 8

v t e North Saskatchewan Region, Alberta
Cities	Beaumont Camrose Edmonton Fort Saskatchewan Leduc Lloydminster St. Albert Spruce Grove Wetaskiwin
Urban service areas	Sherwood Park
Towns	Banff Bashaw Bon Accord Bruderheim Calmar Daysland Devon Drayton Valley Elk Point Gibbons Hardisty Killam Lamont Legal Millet Morinville Mundare Provost Redwater Rocky Mountain House Sedgewick Smoky Lake St. Paul Stony Plain Thorsby Tofield Two Hills Vegreville Vermilion Viking Wainwright
Villages	Alliance Amisk Andrew Bawlf Bittern Lake Breton Caroline Chauvin Chipman Czar Dewberry Edberg Edgerton Ferintosh Forestburg Hay Lakes Heisler Holden Hughenden Innisfree Irma Kitscoty Lougheed Mannville Marwayne Myrnam Paradise Valley Rosalind Ryley Spring Lake Vilna Wabamun Warburg Waskatenau
Summer villages	Argentia Beach Betula Beach Burnstick Lake Crystal Springs Golden Days Grandview Horseshoe Bay Itaska Beach Kapasiwin Lakeview Ma-Me-O Beach Norris Beach Point Alison Poplar Bay Seba Beach Silver Beach Sundance Beach
Hamlets	Abee Alcomdale Alder Flats Alhambra Antler Lake Ardrossan Armena Ashmont Beauvallon Bellis Blackfoot Bodo Brosseau Bruce Buck Creek Buck Lake Buford Cadogan Calahoo Carbondale Cardiff Carvel Clandonald Collingwood Cove Condor Cynthia Derwent Duffield Duhamel Duvernay Edwand Egremont Entwistle Fabyan Fallis Falun Gainford Galahad Greenshields Gwynne Hairy Hill Half Moon Lake Hastings Lake Hayter Heinsburg Hilliard Islay Josephburg Kavanagh Keephills Kelsey Kingman Kinsella Lafond Lake Louise Lamoureux Lavoy Leslieville Lindbergh Lodgepole Long Lake Looma Lottie Lake Mallaig McLaughlin Mearns Meeting Creek Metiskow Minburn Morecambe Mulhurst Bay Musidora Namao New Norway New Sarepta Newbrook Nisku Nordegg North Cooking Lake Ohaton Opal Pelican Point Pine Sands Poplar Ridge Radway Ranfurly Ribstone Rivercourse Riverview Riviere Qui Barre Rocky Rapids Rolly View Round Hill St. Edouard St. Lina St. Michael St. Vincent South Cooking Lake Spedden Star Streamstown Strome Sunnybrook Telfordville Thorhild Tillicum Beach Tomahawk Tulliby Lake Village at Pigeon Lake Villeneuve Violet Grove Warspite Westerose Whitford Willingdon Winfield Withrow Wostok
Métis settlements	Buffalo Lake Kikino
Municipal districts	Beaver Brazeau Camrose Clearwater Flagstaff Lamont Leduc Minburn Parkland Provost St. Paul Smoky Lake Sturgeon Thorhild Two Hills Vermilion River Wainwright Wetaskiwin
Specialized municipalities	Strathcona
Improvement districts	9 (Banff) 13 (Elk Island)
Indian reserves	Alexander 134 Big Horn 144A Buck Lake 133C Enoch Cree Nation 135 Ermineskin 138 Louis Bull 138B Makaoo 120 O'Chiese 203 O'Chiese Cemetery 203A Pigeon Lake 138A Puskiakiwenin 122 Saddle Lake 125 Sunchild 202 Unipouheos 121 Wabamun 133A 133B Whitefish Lake 128
National parks	Banff Elk Island
Provincial parks	Crimson Lake Dillberry Lake Eagle Point Garner Lake Lois Hole Centennial Long Lake Miquelon Lake Pigeon Lake Ram Falls Strathcona Science Vermilion Wabamun Lake Whitney Lakes
Other topics	Alberta Legislative Assembly Banff Springs Hotel Cave and Basin National Historic Site CFB Wainwright Fort Edmonton Frog Lake Massacre Leduc No. 1 Reynolds Museum Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village University of Alberta Victoria Settlement
Land-use framework regions of Alberta Edmonton Metropolitan Region Treaty 6

v t e Red Deer Region, Alberta
Cities	Lacombe Red Deer
Towns	Bentley Blackfalds Bowden Carstairs Castor Coronation Didsbury Drumheller Eckville Hanna Innisfail Olds Oyen Penhold Ponoka Rimbey Stettler Sundre Sylvan Lake Three Hills Trochu
Villages	Acme Alix Big Valley Carbon Cereal Clive Consort Cremona Delburne Delia Donalda Elnora Empress Gadsby Halkirk Linden Morrin Munson Veteran Youngstown
Hamlets	Acadia Valley Altario Ardley Benalto Bindloss Bircham Bluffton Botha Brownfield Byemoor Cessford Chinook Compeer Craigmyle Dickson Endiang Erskine Fleet Haynes Hesketh Hoadley Huxley Iddesleigh Jenner Joffre Kirriemuir Leedale Linn Valley Lousana Markerville Maskwacis Michichi Mirror Monitor Morningside Nevis New Brigden Red Willow Richdale Rowley Rumsey Sedalia Sibbald Springbrook Spruce View Sunnynook Sunnyslope Swalwell Tees Torrington Wardlow Wimborne
Summer villages	Birchcliff Gull Lake Half Moon Bay Jarvis Bay Norglenwold Parkland Beach Rochon Sands Sunbreaker Cove White Sands
Municipal districts	Acadia Kneehill Lacombe Mountain View Paintearth Ponoka Red Deer Starland Stettler
Special areas	Special Area No. 2 Special Area No. 3 Special Area No. 4
Indian reserves	Ermineskin 138 Montana 139 Samson 137 137A
Provincial parks	Antelope Hill Aspen Beach Big Knife Dinosaur Dry Island Buffalo Jump Gooseberry Lake Jarvis Bay Little Fish Lake Midland Red Lodge Rochon Sands
Other topics	Fort Normandeau Gasoline Alley Irene Parlby Red Deer College Royal Tyrrell Museum
Land-use framework regions of Alberta Treaty 6 Treaty 7

v t e South Saskatchewan Region, Alberta
Cities	Airdrie Brooks Calgary Chestermere Lethbridge Medicine Hat
Towns	Bassano Black Diamond Bow Island Canmore Cardston Claresholm Coaldale Coalhurst Cochrane Crossfield Fort Macleod Granum High River Irricana Magrath Milk River Nanton Nobleford Okotoks Picture Butte Pincher Creek Raymond Redcliff Stavely Strathmore Taber Turner Valley Vauxhall Vulcan
Villages	Arrowwood Barnwell Barons Beiseker Carmangay Champion Coutts Cowley Duchess Foremost Glenwood Hill Spring Hussar Lomond Longview Milo Rockyford Rosemary Standard Stirling Warner
Hamlets	Aetna Aldersyde Balzac Beaver Mines Beazer Benchlands Blackie Bottrel Bow City Bragg Creek Brant Burdett Carseland Carway Cassils Cayley Chancellor Cheadle Chin Cluny Cochrane Lake Conrich Dalemead Dalroy De Winton Dead Man's Flats Del Bonita Delacour Desert Blume Diamond City Dunmore Enchant Ensign Etzikom Exshaw Fairview Gem Gleichen Grassy Lake Harvie Heights Hays Heritage Pointe Herronton Hilda Indus Iron Springs Irvine Janet Johnson's Addition Kathyrn Keoma Kimball Kirkcaldy Lac Des Arcs Lake Newell Resort Langdon Leavitt Lowland Heights Lundbreck Lyalta Madden Manyberries Millarville Monarch Moon River Estates Mossleigh Mountain View Namaka New Dayton Nightingale Orion Orton Parkland Patricia Pincher Station Priddis Priddis Greens Purple Springs Queenstown Rainier Rolling Hills Rosebud Scandia Schuler Seven Persons Shaughnessy Shouldice Skiff Spring Coulee Suffield Tilley Travers Turin Twin Butte Veinerville Walsh Waterton Park Welling Welling Station Woodhouse Woolford Wrentham
Summer villages	Ghost Lake Waiparous
Municipal districts	Bighorn Cardston Cypress Foothills Forty Mile Lethbridge Newell Pincher Creek Ranchland Rocky View Taber Vulcan Warner Wheatland Willow Creek
Specialized municipalities	Crowsnest Pass
Improvement districts	4 (Waterton) Kananaskis
Indian reserves	Blood 148 148A Eden Valley 216 Piikani 147 Timber Limit B Siksika 146 Stoney 142, 143, 144 142B Tsuu T'ina 145
National parks	Waterton Lakes
Provincial parks	Beauvais Lake Big Hill Springs Bow Valley Bragg Creek Brown-Lowery Canmore Nordic Centre Castle Chain Lakes Cypress Hills Dinosaur Fish Creek Glenbow Ranch Kinbrook Island Little Bow Park Lake Peter Lougheed Police Outpost Sheep River Spray Valley Tillebrook Willow Creek Woolford Writing-on-Stone Wyndham-Carseland Bluerock Bob Creek Bow Valley Wildland Castle Wildland Don Getty Elbow-Sheep
Other topics	1988 Winter Olympics Brooks Aqueduct Calgary Stampede Cardston Alberta Temple Fort Macleod Fort Walsh Fort Whoop-Up Frank Slide Henrietta Edwards University of Calgary
Land-use framework regions of Alberta Treaty 7