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BEAUMONT’S
BOOM
The only thing blossoming faster
than Beaumont’s housing options
is its small-town charm
by CAROLINE BARLOTT
W
hen Catharina Mendonça
drove from Calgary to
Beaumont to see her
company’s new development,
she thought she’d driven to
another world — or at least another continent.
“I’ve travelled to Europe, and I wasn’t expecting
a town like that in Alberta,” says the marketing
manager of Dream Developments about its new
Beaumont subdivision, Élan. “It does really em-
body this rich spirit, and authentic-small-town-
values kind of place, where people can still walk
their kids to school, and afterwards grab a coffee,
and get a pastry from Chartier, their local little
[French] cafe there,” she says.
She’s not the only one to notice Beaumont’s
charm.
The population was estimated at 24,556 in
2024, a 5.85 per cent increase from 2023 and a 23
per cent increase from 2019.
And the numbers just keep rising. According to
the 2021 Federal Census, it’s the fastest-growing
municipality in the Edmonton Metro Region, and
the third fastest in the province.
Beaumont is just a 24 km drive from central
Edmonton and 19 km from Leduc. Approximately
80 per cent of its residents commute to these
nearby neighbourhoods. “So I think one of the big
allures of Beaumont is that it marries that sort of
small town living with affordability. You get the
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