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|subdivision_name2      = [[Central Alberta]]
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|subdivision_name3      = [[Division No. 11, Alberta|11]]
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|leader_name            = James Alan Barker
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|established_date2      = January 1, 1957
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| area_land_km2                   = 1.72
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'''Breton''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|r|ɛ|t|ən}} is a village in central [[Alberta]], Canada. It is located roughly {{convert|95|km}} southwest of [[Edmonton]].

==History==
Originally called Keystone, it was established in 1909 by a group of African-American immigrants as a [[block settlement]].<ref name="pioneers">{{cite web
  | author1 = Heritage Community Foundation
  | author2 = Black Pioneers Descendants' Society
  | title = Alberta's Black Pioneer Heritage - Keystone
  | publisher = Heritage Community Foundation and Black Pioneers Descendants' Society
  | year = 2007
  | url = http://blackpioneers.albertasource.ca/communities/rural/keystone/index.html
  | access-date = 2008-07-09
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091109065401/http://blackpioneers.albertasource.ca/communities/rural/keystone/index.html
  | archive-date = 2009-11-09
  }}
</ref>    The new [[Black Canadians#Early 20th century|Black Canadian]] homesteaders arrived from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas, just four years after Alberta became a province in 1905.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://albertashistoricplaces.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/african-american-immigration-to-alberta/ |title=African American Immigration to Alberta |last=Rowe |first=Allan |work=Historic Resources Management Branch |publisher=[[List of Alberta provincial ministers#Minister of Culture|Alberta Ministry of Culture and Tourism]] |date=2015-02-12 |access-date=2017-02-06}}</ref>

A Canadian Northern Railway line went through Breton. Breton had several grain elevators and a station.<ref>{{Cite book |title=South Edmonton Saga, map on endpapers}}</ref>

In 1927 the town was renamed after politician [[Douglas Breton]], in his second year as the region's [[Alberta general election, 1926|Member of the Alberta Legislature]].<ref name="bretname">{{cite web|url=http://www.albertasource.ca/aspenland/flash/eng/regions/popBreton_Settlement.html|publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation|title=Breton|access-date=June 30, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615094700/http://www.albertasource.ca/aspenland/flash/eng/regions/popBreton_Settlement.html|archive-date=June 15, 2011}}</ref><ref name="bret2">{{cite hansard|title=Legislative Assembly of Alberta|date=24 August 2006|house=Legislative Assembly of Alberta|url=http://www.assembly.ab.ca/Documents/isysquery/065aefda-88e4-4897-9d70-7988c7ce195d/44/doc/20060824_1330_01_han.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115174128/https://www.assembly.ab.ca/Documents/isysquery/065aefda-88e4-4897-9d70-7988c7ce195d/44/doc/20060824_1330_01_han.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 15, 2021|page=1,690}}</ref>

==Infrastructure==
It has one High School (grades 7–12) and one elementary (K-6) school. It has a Paid on call Fire department operating with the Brazeau county fire services, two grocery stores, two golf courses, four restaurants, two hair parlors, a police station with three officers and one secretary.

==Demographics==
In the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], the Village of Breton had a population of 567 living in 259 of its 296 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:567-574}}|574|1}} from its 2016 population of 574. With a land area of {{cvt|1.72|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|567|1.72|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000248 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=February 9, 2022}}</ref>

In the [[Canada 2016 Census|2016 Census of Population]] conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Breton recorded a population of 574 living in 252 of its 292 total private dwellings, a {{percentage|{{#expr:574-496}}|496|1}} change from its 2011 population of 496. With a land area of {{convert|1.72|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|574|1.72|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2016.<ref name=2016censusABmunis>{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=86&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Alberta) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 8, 2017 | access-date=February 8, 2017}}</ref>

The Village of Breton's 2012 municipal census counted a population of 581,<ref name=2012MAPL>{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/msb/2012_pop.pdf | title=2012 Municipal Affairs Population List | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | date=2012-11-22 | access-date=2012-12-13}}</ref> a 0.3% increase over its 2007 municipal census population of 579.<ref name=2009opl>{{cite web | url=http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/documents/LGS/2009pop.pdf | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | title=Alberta 2009 Official Population List | date=2009-09-15 | access-date=2010-09-14}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[List of communities in Alberta]]
*[[List of villages in Alberta]]
*Similar 1908 to 1910 Alberta homesteader settlements of  Black Canadians:
**[[Amber Valley, Alberta]]
**[[Campsie, Alberta]]
**[[Wildwood, Alberta#History|Junkins (now Wildwood), Alberta]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{official website}}

{{Subdivisions of Alberta|villages=yes}}

[[Category:1909 establishments in Alberta]]
[[Category:Black Canadian culture in Alberta]]
[[Category:Villages in Alberta]]
[[Category:Black Canadian settlements]]
[[Category:Populated places established by African Americans]]