摘要：This paper presents the results of an analysis of intraregional disparities on the frontier of northern Alberta. A centre-periphery framework is employed, the small town of High Prairie, located just west of Lesser Slave Lake, being the region's central place, and the two smaller communities of Grouard and Gift Lake, sorne 35 kilometres and 90 kilometres respectively from High Prairie, being located in the peripb:~ ry (Figure 1). These areas were selected because previous work [9] had focused upon the town of Slave Lake at the east end of Lesser Slave Lake, and because of the need to include communities of different population size, native and non-native composition, as weil as function and distance apart, in a centre-periphery framework. No other satisfactory alternative communities existed in the region.
