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  Alberta - Search View - MSN Encarta
Alberta is generally a dry region, especially in the south, where mountains trap air masses moving inland from the Pacific Ocean and drain them of moisture.
Alberta’s population grew rapidly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with agricultural settlement of the province.
Alberta is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 28 elected representatives in the House of Commons and by 6 senators, chosen by the federal government, in the Senate.
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 Alberta
Alberta is 756 miles (1,217 kilometers) from north to south and between 182 and 404 miles (293 and 650 kilometers) in width from west to east.
In 1992/93, Alberta Environmental Protection was formed from the merger of the former departments of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife, and Environment, and the Parks Division of the former department of Tourism and Recreation.
Alberta became one of the most impoverished areas of Canada during the 1930s, and social welfare programs were rapidly expanded at this time to help the poor and the unemployed of the province.
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 Welcome to Alberta, Canada
Alberta is the leading beekeeping province of Canada, with some beekeepers wintering hives indoors in specially designed barns in southern Alberta, then migrating north during the summer into the Peace River valley where the season is short but the working days are long for honeybees to produce honey from clover and fireweed.
Alberta also has a large Hutterite population, a communal Anabaptist sect similar to the Mennonites, and a significant population of Seventh-day Adventists in and around the Lacombe area due to the presence of the Canadian University College.
Central and northern Alberta and the region farther north is the nesting-ground of the migratory birds.
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 Alberta general election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta general election of 2004 was the twenty-sixth general election for the province of Alberta, Canada.
This election was held in conjunction with the Alberta Senate nominee election, 2004.
The 2001 election was generally regarded to be as a disaster for the Liberals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_general_election,_2004   (1992 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Voter Toolkit
The Elections Canada definition of this term is almost poetic: "The place of ordinary residence of a person is the place that has always been, or that has been adopted as, his or her dwelling place, and to which the person intends to return when away from it.
Elections Canada used to need that much time to prepare the voters' list because it was sending teams of enumerators to every home in Canada to update information from the previous general election.
Victories were granted to Édouard Guilbault (Cons.) during the 1887 general election in the riding of Joliette, Que.; Nicholas Flood Davin (Cons.) during the 1896 general election in the riding of Assiniboia West, NWT; and Paul Martineau (P.C.) during the 1963 general election in the riding of Pontiac-Temiscamingue, Que.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/voterstoolkit/faqs.html   (6671 words)

  
 Women & Canadian Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Between 1921 and 2006, 3402 women candidates stood in the 39 general elections and won on 426 occasions (I do not have the figures for by-elections); note: a number of individuals ran several times.
In the 2000 elections, 373 women were among the 1808 candidates; this figure represents 20.6% of the total.
The 1993 federal election witnessed the emergence of a significant gender gap in support for the new party of the right: women were much less likely than men to vote Reform, a trend that continued in the 1997 federal election.
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 Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Biographies
Sat for Antrim from the general election of 1921 until 1929, and for the Larne division from 1929 until he was appointed County Court Judge for County Tyrone on 29th April 1937.
Sat for Mid Londonderry from the general election of 1945 until the general election of 1953, and for the Foyle Division of Londonderry from the general election of 1953 until the general election of 1969 when he was defeated.
Sat for Belfast, Oldpark from the general election of 1949 until the general election of 1958 when he was defeated, and for Belfast, Clifton from the byelection of 28th May 1959 until the general election of 1969 when he was defeated.
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 CIVITATENSIS » elections
If we take the assessment of this Alberta blogger seriously, and we should, a victory for Jim Dinning in the Alberta Tory leadership race would significantly reduce the field of policy choice for actual conservatives in Alberta.
Buzz Hargrove, the godfather of Canadian autoworkers, abandoned the NDP for the Martinista Liberals in the last election under the pretense of strategic voting.
Alberta has a story of creating new parties and replacing the old ones when the old ones don’t meet their expectations.
www.civitatensis.ca /archives/category/elections   (3575 words)

  
 CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Voter Resources
The highest voter turnout was 81.8 per cent in the general election of 1935.
The lowest voter turnout was 47.25 per cent in the general election of 1986.
Throughout the election campaign we’ll be highlighting letters from people about the candidates, issues and coverage.
www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/features/alberta_numbers.html   (139 words)

  
 ABORIGINAL
In Alberta, the Métis of the Paddle Prairie Settlement in Northern Alberta managed to threaten the negotiation of governance restructuring.
Peter Lougheed, the Alberta Premier who began these negotiations to restructure the relationship between the province and one group of Métis in Alberta, wanted a made-in-Alberta solution to aboriginal self-reliance.7 "Resolution 18", which Lougheed introduced in the provincial legislature in 1982, was a commitment made by the government that led to the Métis Settlements Accord.8
However, it is important to note that within the constraining financial and legal boundaries set by the federal and provincial governments, in domains such as human resources policy, education policy or social policy, aboriginal decision-making may be relatively unencumbered.
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 The Honourable John E. Brownlee, 1925-34
At the provincial election of 1921, John E. Brownlee was not a candidate.
At a by-election on December 9, 1921, he was elected, by acclamation, the Member for the electoral district of Ponoka.
He then continued to serve in the Alberta Legislature as a Private Member until he was defeated at the general election of August 22, 1935.
www.assembly.ab.ca /lao/library/PREMIERS/brownlee.htm   (799 words)

  
 Government- Government of Alberta
Alberta's first premier, Alexander C. Rutherford and his Liberals took 22 of 25 seats.
The United Farmers of Alberta party overcame the Liberals in 1921 and stayed in power until 1935.
A virtual tour through Alberta’s Legislature Building with pictures and video, as well as a quiz to test your knowledge when you’re done.
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 CanadaInfoLink is everything you wanted to know about Canada and canadian information about provinces, provincial ...
He was sworn in as Alberta's 12th Premier on December 14 of that year.
Several months later, Albertans gave his party a resounding victory in the Provincial general election of June 15, 1993.
In 1992, he received a Governor General's Award and in 1993 he became the second white person in history to be adopted into the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation and was given the name Otskoipiiksi (Bluebird).
www.canadainfolink.ca /prem_alberta.htm   (548 words)

  
 Summary of Results for Past General Elections 1905-2004
Note: We shall endeavor to ensure information is correct to the best of our knowledge; however, in the event that discrepencies are found between the hard copies and electronic version of the information, the hard copies will prevail.
General Election Results - Thursday, May 8, 1986
Note:       The total number of candidates nominated represents the number of candidates who contested the election.
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 General Contractor - Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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