"[6] (A better known alternative route under the same name ran along the north bank and is now memorialized by the Victoria Trail in Edmonton.

)[7] The town was named in honour of Canadian politician John Henderson Lamont.

[8] Lamont was assigned a Royal Mail Canada post office in 1906,[8] before being incorporated as a village in 1910.

[9] On November 29, 1960, a school bus carrying students from nearby Chipman to school in Lamont was struck by a train, killing 17 students (15 girls and two boys).

The collision occurred on the east side of town at a crossing just north of Highway 15 before 9:00 am.