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.

Photographs edit

High effort maps edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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

British Columbia edit

Alberta edit

Ontario edit

Quebec edit

New Brunswick edit

Rural locator maps edit

Urban locator maps edit

County locators (experimental) edit

Historic federal riding locator maps edit

Other maps edit

Other graphics edit

Articles I am proud of edit

DYK edit

Other edit

Navboxes created/reformatted edit

First Nations + Indigenous peoples edit

Alberta land-use framework regions edit

Notes and subpages edit

  1. ^ "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2021.