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| | Alberta, Canada - RockiesGuide.com |
 | | In 1897, Canada's minister of the interior, Clifford Sifton, began a massive advertising campaign in Europe to encourage people to come to the Canadian West. |
 | | While most of the early settlers came from Ontario, Britain or the United States, many of the people who came as a result of Sifton's campaign were of German, Ukrainian, and Romanian descent, giving Alberta the diverse population that it has today. |
 | | Alberta's population grew to 73,000 in 1901; to 374,000 in 1911; and to 584,000 in 1921! |
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