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.

Userboxes 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.

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.

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]

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.

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

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

• 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

• 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.)