Campsie is a hamlet in central Alberta within the County of Barrhead No. 11, located approximately 17 km west of Barrhead then 1 km north of Highway 18, roughly 101 km northwest of Edmonton. It has an elevation of 660 m. The hamlet took its name, in 1909, from Campsie, in Scotland, the ancestral home of an early postmaster. The post office operated until 1969. The community was a block settlement established by Black Canadian homesteaders from Oklahoma and Texas, within four to five years of Alberta becoming a province in 1905.

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Demographics

Campsie recorded a population of 65 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.