Director, administrative services

Town of HintonDirector of Corporate ServicesAbout the Town of HintonThe Town of Hinton is a growing community of 10,000 residents set in the foothills of Alberta?s Rocky Mountains, on the south bank of the Athabasca River at the junction of the Yellowhead (Highway 16) and Highway 40. Known as the ?Gateway to the Rockies,? Hinton sits just 15 minutes east of the Jasper National Park gates and about 300 km west of Edmonton, and serves as an important commercial, service and supply centre for the surrounding region of west-central Alberta.Hinton began in 1911 as a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station, named for the railway?s general manager, William P. Hinton, and grew with the opening of local coal mines in the 1930s. The construction of Alberta?s first pulp mill in the mid-1950s brought rapid growth, and the original townsite and the new ne...