User:Awmcphee
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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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Photographs
Dr. Mary Jackson School, Keg River
Sagitawa Lookout, Peace River
Goodlow post office
Dunvegan Bridge
Norman Range, Norman Wells
Derelict Pine Point mine workings
Lady Evelyn Falls, Kakisa
Liard River, Blackstone TP
Athabasca
Big Lakes
Bonnyville
Cypress
Fairview
Forty Mile
Kneehill
Lac la Biche
Lacombe
Lamont
Lesser Slave River
Minburn
Opportunity
Paintearth
Pincher Creek
Ranchland
St. Paul
Smoky River
Special Areas
Spirit River
Starland
Stettler
Vulcan
Wainwright
Warner
Wheatland
Willow Creek
High effort maps
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[1] | ||||||||
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.
Provincial thematic maps
I am currently trying to make as many good thematic maps as possible to illustrate the Canadian province articles.
British Columbia
Population density
Elevation
Alberta
Population density
New Brunswick
Population density
Newfoundland and Labrador
Population density
French language ability
Ontario
Population density
Indigenous identity
Visible minorities
French ability
Quebec
Population density
Rural locator maps
British Columbia regional districts
Alberta municipal districts and counties
Saskatchewan rural municipalities
Manitoba rural municipalities
Northwest Territories administrative divisions
Urban locator maps
County locators (experimental)
Historic federal riding locator maps
Historic Vancouver ridings
Historic rural Saskatchewan ridings
Historic Calgary ridings
Historic Edmonton ridings
Historic rural Alberta ridings
Historic Regina ridings
Historic Winnipeg ridings
Other maps
Edmonton Metropolitan Region municipalities
Calgary Metropolitan Region municipalities
Other graphics
Bump chart of provincial population ranks.
