Darwell is located on the old Yellowhead Trail fur trade route, which ran from Lac Ste Anne to Jasper. The Canadian Northern Railway was built through Darwell,[2] roughly following the Yellowhead Trail. A railway station opened in 1912. Darwell was the site of a consolidated school which opened in 1947 to serve students who previously attended eight one-roomed schools in the area. That school burned in 1954, and a modern school was built. [3] When the tracks were torn up in the mid-1930's, the railway bed became a road, now Highway 633.
Darwell Public Library (member of the Yellowhead Regional Library)
Darwell School, which offers education from kindergarten to grade 7
Notable people
Campbell, Bettie Jean (January 18, 1933 - January 12, 2023) (painter)[5][6][7]
Carlier, Oneil[8] (June 22, 1962 -) (politician) Member of the Legislative Assembly (29th Legislative Assembly 2015 - 2019). Carlier was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election,[8] as the member representing the electoral district of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne and served as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. Minister Carlier served until April, 2019.
Kinsella, William Patrick (WP) - (May 25, 1935 - September 16, 2016) - (Canadian writer/author) lived on a farm near Darwell until age 10.[9]
^Lac Ste Anne Historical Society. Archives Committee (1959). West of the Fifth: a history of the Lac Ste. Anne Municipality. Edmonton, AB: The Institute of Applied Art Ltd. p. 141.
^Davison, Vi (1982). Spirit and Trails of Lac Ste Anne. Alberta Beach, AB: The Alberta Beach Pioneers-Archives Society. pp. 200–203.
