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|name = Belloy
|settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area#Canada|Unincorporated community]]
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|pushpin_map_caption = Location of Belloy in [[Alberta]]
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|subdivision_name = Canada
|subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Province]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Alberta]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of census divisions of Alberta|Census division]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Division No. 19, Alberta|No. 19]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of municipal districts in Alberta|Municipal district]]
|subdivision_name3 = [[Birch Hills County]]

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'''Belloy''' is a [[ghost town]] in [[Alberta]], Canada within [[Birch Hills County]].

It is located along the [[Grande Prairie-Grande Cache Railway]] tracks, north of [[Alberta Highway 49]], between [[Wanham, Alberta|Wanham]] and [[Girouxville, Alberta|Girouxville]]. It is part of [[census division]] [[Division No. 19, Alberta|No. 19]] and is administered by [[Birch Hills County]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stds.statcan.ca/english/sgc/1996/1996-sgc-searchlocal.asp?criteria=4819049|title=Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 1996|author=Statistics Canada|authorlink=Statistics Canada|accessdate=2009-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610222539/http://stds.statcan.ca/english/sgc/1996/1996-sgc-searchlocal.asp?criteria=4819049|archive-date=2011-06-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The community has the name of one [[Tavie Belge|Octavie Belloy]], an opera singer who entertained Belgian troops.<ref>{{cite book|title=Place-names of Alberta|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070267029;view=1up;seq=22|year=1928|publisher=Geographic Board of Canada|location=Ottawa|page=18}}</ref>

[[Agriculture]] is the main activity in the community, which was built around [[cattle]] farming. Services for the oil and gas industry are another part of the economy.

== Geography ==
The community lies in the [[Peace River Country]] of [[northern Alberta]], in the Birch Hills south of the [[Peace River (Canada)|Peace River]].

The settlement gives the name to the [[Belloy Formation]], a stratigraphical unit of the [[Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin]].<ref name=lexicon>{{Cite web|url=http://cgkn1.cgkn.net/weblex/weblex_litho_detail_e.pl?00053:001143|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708060843/http://cgkn1.cgkn.net/weblex/weblex_litho_detail_e.pl?00053:001143|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-08|title=Belloy Formation|author=[[Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units]]|accessdate=2009-02-12}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[List of communities in Alberta]]
*[[List of ghost towns in Alberta]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*Ghost Towns of Canada. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224133114/http://www.ghosttownscanada.ca/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1056 Belloy, Alberta]

{{Geographic Location (8-way)
| Centre = Belloy
| North = [[Fairview, Alberta|Fairview]]
| Northeast = [[Berwyn, Alberta|Berwyn]]
| East = [[Girouxville, Alberta|Girouxville]]
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| South = [[Bad Heart, Alberta|Bad Heart]]<br>[[Debolt, Alberta|Debolt]]
| Southwest = [[Woking, Alberta|Woking]]
| West = [[Rycroft, Alberta|Rycroft]]
| Northwest = [[Dunvegan, Alberta|Dunvegan]]
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[[Category:Localities in Birch Hills County]]
[[Category:Ghost towns in Alberta]]

Belloy, Alberta - Revision history

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