Home to MCSnet’s own head office and the world’s first UFO Landing Pad, St. Paul is also home to more MCSnet sponsored free Wi-Fi hotspots than any other town in the region.
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St. Paul sits in Alberta’s Lakeland region, about 200 km northeast of Edmonton, and is the largest town in the County of St. Paul No. 19, with a population of roughly 5,900. It began as Saint-Paul-des-Metis, a Metis colony founded on federal land in 1896, and grew through incorporation as a village and later as a town into the service hub it is today for the surrounding farms, lakes, and hamlets. Its best-known landmark is the world’s first UFO Landing Pad, built as a Canadian Centennial project and still drawing curious visitors off the highway. St. Paul is also home to MCSnet’s own head office on 50th Avenue, and the town’s arenas, ball fields, and Main Street sit close enough together that a short walk covers most of what the town has to offer.
MCSnet sponsors free public Wi-Fi at 17 venues across St. Paul, more than any other single community in MCSnet’s service area. That list covers both of the town’s arenas, the aquatic centre, the curling club, the golf course, the tennis club, the seniors club, the campground and the Town’s Reunion Station rental hall, the Legion, the Lions Club, the Mannawanis Friendship Centre, the visual arts centre, the museum, the rec centre, the Ukrainian dance club, and ACFA Regionale de Saint-Paul. Every hotspot uses the same network name and password, so a phone, tablet, or laptop that connects at one venue will connect automatically at every other one in town, and at every other MCSnet sponsored hotspot across rural Alberta.
Use these steps to connect at St. Paul. The network name and password are the same at every MCSnet sponsored hotspot.
No MCSnet home internet subscription is needed. Access to the building follows the venue’s opening hours and visitor policies.
Can’t see the network? Check that Wi-Fi is turned on and ask venue staff where the hotspot is available.
MCSnet also connects homes, farms, and businesses here. Read about home internet in St. Paul or browse the full hotspot directory.
MCSnet sponsors free public Wi-Fi at 17 venues in St. Paul, including Clancy Richard Arena, CAP Arena, the St. Paul Aquatic Centre, the St. Paul Curling Club, the St. Paul Golf Course, the St. Paul Tennis Club, the St. Paul Senior Citizens Club, Iron Horse Campground, Reunion Station, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 100, the St. Paul & District Lions Club, the Mannawanis Friendship Centre, the St. Paul Visual Arts Centre, the People’s Museum Society, the St. Paul Rec Centre and Multipurpose Room, the St. Paul Ukrainian Dance Club, and ACFA Regionale de Saint-Paul.
No. Connect to the network MCSNET FREE with the password shown on each venue’s page. There is no sign-in page and nothing to register.
Yes. Every MCSnet sponsored hotspot in St. Paul shares the same network name and password, so your device will reconnect automatically once you have joined it at any one of them.
No. Every MCSnet sponsored hotspot in St. Paul is open to anyone at the venue, whether or not you are an MCSnet customer.
MCSnet is the rural provider behind the free Wi-Fi in St. Paul. Enter your home address to see available internet services, speeds, and current pricing, then get started with signup.
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