Cayley

History

The community was named for the Hon. Hugh St. Quentin Cayley, a barrister and the publisher of the Calgary Herald in 1884, who also represented Calgary in the Northwest Territories legislature from 1886 to 1894. The hamlet originally contained at least seven grain elevators; all have been demolished. Cayley is also home to a Hutterite colony and a colony school; in 2001, two Cayley Colony girls were the first students from an Alberta colony school to write provincial diploma exams and graduate from high school. Previously incorporated as a village on August 4, 1904, Cayley dissolved to hamlet status on June 1, 1996.

Most-observed species

• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,497
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  5,742
• American Coot

  Fulica americana Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  5,370
• American White Pelican

  Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  5,102
• Northern Shoveler

  Spatula clypeata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,090
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  4,861
• Killdeer

  Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  4,813
• California Gull

  Larus californicus Lawrence, 1854 · Aves
  4,619

Most recent

• M 2.54 — 2024-10-25
  11 km SSE of Elkford, Canada
• M 2.7 — 2023-06-07
  16 km NNW of Elkford, Canada
• M 2.62 — 2021-04-19
  15 km SSW of Elkford, Canada
• M 2.76 — 2021-04-08
  9 km SW of Elkford, Canada
• M 2.63 — 2020-12-29
  18 km SE of Elkford, Canada
• M 2.58 — 2020-11-14
  19 km NNE of Sparwood, Canada