The center of the settlement was located at quarter section North West 36Township 19, Range 1 west of the Principal Meridian (NW36-19-1W).
The District of Alberta was where the southwestern part of the province of Alberta is today, east of British Columbia, west of the line between ranges 10 and 11 of the Dominion Land Survey (about 112° west) and north of the American border.
The Fifth Meridian at 114° west, which runs through Calgary, Alberta (Barlow Trail is built mostly on the meridian) and Stony Plain, Alberta (48th Street).
It consisted of a part of Saskatchewan lying south of the Qu'Appelle River and east of the 2nd meridian.
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It runs on the Fifth Meridian (Range Road 10) for its entire length, which was surveyed as 114° Longitude in the Dominion Land Survey, and used by the Alberta Township System.
Barlow Trail is run roughly where the fifth meridian lies in the Dominion Land Survey; the road is named for Noel Barlow, a Calgarian who served as the ground crewman to Douglas Bader, a Royal Air Force flying ace in World War II.