Deadwood is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within the County of Northern Lights. It is located on Highway 690, approximately east of the Mackenzie Highway (Highway 35), north of Peace River and southeast of Manning.
History
John Chauncey Eggenberger was the first postmaster and proprietor of the first general store. He was from Deadwood, South Dakota, and left with two cars of settlers to homestead deadwood in 1931. The original store, post office and community hall were located a few miles west of the present day hamlet. The first town hall was demolished in 1936. The current hall was constructed in February 1979, primarily through volunteer labor.
On Saturday, August 19, 2006, in the evening (with a number of people gathered for the Deadwood Days ball tournament watching) a single-engine Cessna 177 piloted by Manning businessman Nick Gudzinski, 49, crashed less than a kilometre south of the hamlet. The pilot and all three of the teenaged passengers were killed. All were residents of the Manning area some 21 kilometers northwest of Deadwood. One of the passengers was Mr. Gudzinski's son; another was his son's girlfriend, and the remaining was the girlfriend's brother.
On February 20, 2017, 37 illegal firearms were seized from a farmer in a home in Deadwood. Two days later, police went back to the property and recovered two stolen sports cars and some cocaine.
Demographics
Deadwood recorded a population of 22 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.