Shaftesbury Settlement is an unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Peace No.

The Shaftesbury Formation, a stratigraphic unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin was named for the settlement.

[3] The community was named after Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

John Gough Brick from Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, in 1888 as an Anglican mission.

[4] A telegraph line was extended from Edmonton to Shaftesbury in 1910 or 1911.