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Calmar

Town
83 H

Approximately 42 km south-west of Edmonton.

The post office opened here in April 1900. The town was incorporated 19 January 1954. Mr. Carl G. Blomquist was the first postmaster and he suggested the name to commemorate his home town of Kalmar, Sweden.