User:Awmcphee

Hi, I'm Alex McPhee! I live in Val Marie, am the proud holder of a University of Alberta BSc, and am a professional cartographer (seriously, this is a real job that exists).

On-wiki, I specialize in Canadian graphics and geography. Check out my other work at awmcphee.ca.

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This user lives in
Saskatchewan.

This user participates in
WikiProject Canada.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Alberta.

This user is a member of
WikiProject
Canadian Territories.

This user is a member of the Moravian Church.

This user has 3 DYK credits.

Photographs

Peace River Country

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  Dr. Mary Jackson School, Keg River
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  Sagitawa Lookout, Peace River
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  Goodlow post office
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  Dunvegan Bridge

Northwest Territories

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  Norman Range, Norman Wells
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  Keele River
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  Canadian Shield, Yellowknife
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  Derelict Pine Point mine workings
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  Lady Evelyn Falls, Kakisa
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  Liard River, Blackstone TP

Alberta municipal district boundary signs

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  Athabasca
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  Big Lakes
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  Bonnyville
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  Cypress
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  Fairview
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  Forty Mile
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  Kneehill
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  Lac la Biche
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  Lacombe
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  Lamont
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  Lesser Slave River
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  Minburn
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  Opportunity
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  Paintearth
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  Pincher Creek
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  Ranchland
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  St. Paul
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  Smoky River
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  Special Areas
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  Spirit River
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  Starland
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  Stettler
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  Vulcan
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  Wainwright
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  Warner
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  Wheatland
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  Willow Creek

High effort maps

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  Alberta
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  Saskatchewan

I am proud to say that these two projects launched my career and I now work full-time in... staying at home all day and producing maps of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

My electoral history

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Jeremy Patzer	24,518	71.53	–9.6	$35,741.95
	New Democratic	Alex McPhee	3,604	10.51	+1.0	$26,349.39
	People's	Charles Reginald Hislop	2,826	8.24	+5.4	$0.00
	Liberal	Mackenzie Hird	1,492	4.35	+0.1	$2,023.58
	Maverick	Mark Skagen	1,360	3.97	+3.97	$7,334.65
	Green	Carol Vandale	284	0.83	–1.1	$0.00
	Independent	Maria Rose Lewans	193	0.56	–0.01	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			34,277	99.6	–	$122,866.74
Total rejected ballots			145	0.04
Turnout			34,422	67
Eligible voters			49,606
	Conservative hold		Swing		+3.2
Source: Elections Canada

Election cartograms

These are generated using a fairly simple Python script, made as my first programming project after graduation. (Harder than it sounds, as the only thing I learned in university was Matlab.) Arranging the grid squares to minimize distortion is an art, not a science.

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  2019 Canadian federal election
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  2019 Indian general election
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  2019 Polish parliamentary election
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  2019 United Kingdom general election

Provincial thematic maps

I am currently trying to make as many good thematic maps as possible to illustrate the Canadian province articles.

British Columbia

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  Population density
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  Elevation

Alberta

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  Population density

Ontario

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  Population density
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  Indigenous identity
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  Visible minorities
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  French ability

Quebec

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  Population density

New Brunswick

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  Population density

Rural locator maps

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  British Columbia regional districts
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  Alberta municipal districts and counties
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  Saskatchewan rural municipalities
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  Manitoba rural municipalities
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  Northwest Territories administrative divisions

Urban locator maps

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  Burnstick Lake
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  Oyen
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  East Prairie Metis Settlement
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  Chestermere

County locators (experimental)

Valleyview

Fox Creek

Grande Cache

DeBolt

Grovedale

Little Smoky

Historic federal riding locator maps

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  Historic Vancouver ridings
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  Historic rural Saskatchewan ridings
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  Historic Calgary ridings
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  Historic Edmonton ridings
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  Historic rural Alberta ridings
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  Historic Regina ridings
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  Historic Winnipeg ridings

Other maps

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  Edmonton Metropolitan Region municipalities
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  Calgary Metropolitan Region municipalities

Other graphics

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  Bump chart of provincial population ranks.

Articles I am proud of

DYK

• Reindeer Station
• Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples
• Stoney Knoll First Nation

Other

• Gwich'in Tribal Council
• Peerless Trout First Nation
• Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement
• Cold Lake Metis Settlement
• Marlboro Metis Settlement
• Wolf Lake Metis Settlement
• Land-use framework regions of Alberta
• Rural Municipality of Glen McPherson No. 46
• Sahtu Region
• ʔejëre K’elnı Kuę́ 196I

Notes and subpages

• User:Awmcphee/Land Cover - Instructions for replicating the colourimetry used on my land cover maps.
• User:Awmcphee/Pushpin - Some thoughts on using the locator map template for community articles.
• User:Awmcphee/Maplink - Testing Template:Maplink on some Alberta municipalities. (Verdict: It only works on the largest of the bunch, and then, not accurately.)