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	Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta (4208 words)

	History of Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wrangling between the French and British (a continuing theme in Canadian history) kept Alberta from being fully exploited at first, but with the creation of trading posts near Edmonton and up north the squabbling subsided somewhat.
		The vast herds of bison on which the Indians depended were hunted nearly to extinction and the land was distributed to European homesteaders.
		Alberta was established a province of Canada in 1905.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Alberta (791 words)

	Alberta on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberta is bounded on the E by Saskatchewan, on the N by the Northwest Territories, on the W by British Columbia, and on the S by Montana.
		The population is concentrated in S and central Alberta; except for farm centers in the fertile wheat-growing valley of the Peace, the north is sparsely settled.
		Alberta was originally part of the vast territory granted to the Hudson's Bay Company by King Charles II in 1670, and its early history was dominated by the fur trade.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/alberta_historyandpolitics.asp (2082 words)

	History of Alberta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberta, Michigan was built from scratch, cut out of the extensive hardwoods forest at a remote location 9 miles south of L'Anse.
		In 1954, the Ford Motor Company Fund gave the Village of Alberta and nearly 2000 acres of their forest lands to Michigan Tech University to be used as a "Center for Research, Demonstration, and Education in Forestry".
		Alberta Village, the sawmill, and its surrounding forests have provided an excellent field laboratory for Michigan Tech students.
	www.albertavillagemuseum.com /history.html (1530 words)

	History of Alberta (from Alberta) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		For 200 years the history of Alberta was the history of the fur trade in western Canada (see fur trade).
		Alberta was unoccupied, however, until the rival North West Company built forts in the late 18th century.
		History is a science—a branch of knowledge that uses specific methods and tools to achieve its goals.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-196171 (843 words)

	History- Government of Alberta
		A major event in Alberta history was the arrival of the railway in 1883.
		Alberta was proclaimed a province in 1905 and Edmonton became the capital city.
		Alberta's population grew to 73,000 in 1901; to 374,000 in 1911; and to 584,000 in 1921!
	www.gov.ab.ca /home/Index.cfm?Page=27 (1109 words)

	People- Government of Alberta
		As of April 1, 2005, Alberta's population is estimated to be 3,236,906.
		Alberta is a land with a rich record of the past going back hundreds of millions of years.
		Alberta is home to two National Hockey League teams (the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames) and two Canadian Football League teams (the Edmonton Eskimos and the Calgary Stampeders).
	www.gov.ab.ca /home/Index.cfm?Page=28 (702 words)

	Canadian Genealogy and History Links - Alberta
		Provincial Museum of Alberta Focusing on the human and natural history of Alberta and western Canada.
		Lethbridge, Alberta 1891 Index to the 1891 Dominion Census, Lethbridge Sub-District, Alberta, Northwest Territories.
		From Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois to Tofield, Alberta in 1910 / 1912.
	www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/alberta.html (1309 words)

	Alberta's Lacrosse History
		Mannville, Alberta is actually named in honour of Donald Mann whose name also graces the most sought after trophy in Senior Box Lacrosse.
		In truth, teams from Alberta have challenged for all 4 major trophies in Canadian box lacrosse and over the last 30 years Alberta based clubs have brought home six national championships.
		Slowly we're rebuilding the history of Alberta's box lacrosse roots to give the next generation of players a sense of the shoes they are filling.
	www.geocities.com /rids.rm/alberta.html (1222 words)

	McFarland Family history - by Alberta Horan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberta annotates in the margin that this is "George Battle", and in a different place seems to suggest that "Bess" is "Elizabeth Burdick Osterhill
		I corresponded with Bess up to the last 2 years, and then did not hear from her, which indicates that she is either in a rest home or deceased.
		My dad said they got separated when they were young, and he never found Robert, but Fred moved west with the railroad and finally homesteaded in Montana, and contacted my dad to [move to] Montana as he was sick, and then Fred died in 1918 and left the farm to dad.
	math.uww.edu /~mcfarlat/pictures/alberta1.htm (4701 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS - Politics: Alberta Election History
		Alberta Premier Ralph Klein speaks at the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Countries Convention in Edmonton.
		Alberta’s Famous Five — Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby and Henrietta Edwards — begin their fight for women to be legally recognized as “persons.” Prohibition is repealed in 1923.
		By 1936, with Alberta’s debt and interest payments sucking up half the province’s annual revenue, Aberhart hikes income taxes and introduces a sales tax and 22 backbenchers call for his resignation.
	www.cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Politics/2004/11/22/726176.html (1647 words)

	Alberta Township : Alberta HQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberta Township is a township located in Benton County, Minnesota.
		Pincher Creek, Alberta Pincher Creek is a town in the province of Alberta, Canada.
		Alberta HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
	www.albertahq.com /albertatownship/index.php (749 words)

	History of Canmore Alberta Canada
		For almost a century, Canmore was one of the most important coal mining centres in southern Alberta: a town that grew to 3,000 spartan, salt-of-the-earth miners and their families.
		It is a Celtic word meaning "Big Head" and was titled in honor of King Malcolm III of Canmore who, in 1057, killed Macbeth the usurper in a fight for the Scottish throne.
		The present Alberta Rocky Mountain location was named Canmore in 1884 by Donald A. Smith, a Canadian Pacific Railway pioneer.
	www.canmorealberta.com /directory/about/history (1351 words)

	Petroleum History Society - Alberta's First Natural Gas Discovery
		This is a story about Alberta's first natural gas discovery and the fun I had finding it.
		This presentation debuted at the Petroleum History Society Luncheon on September 20, 1995 and was repeated at Inter-Can - The Calgary Oil and Gas Show on June 19, 1997.
		The Alberta Oil and Gas Conservation Board (as the EUB was called then) notified the CPR that the well would have to be cleaned out to its total depth of 1426 feet and reabandoned.
	www.petroleumhistory.ca /history/firstgas.html (3675 words)

	MAVERICKS HISTORY OF ALBERTA - Aretha Van Herk - Penguin Books
		Bronc-riders of boom and bust, Alberta's people are a beguiling mixture of opinionated extremists, hardy pioneers and gentle sinners.
		Alberta is a province that most Canadians simply don't understand, the province most Canadians love to hate.
		It is regarded as a land of reckless, redneck and ignorant individualists.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140286020,00.html (283 words)

	HISTORY OF ALBERTA
		This is a continuation of the Metis Nation History.
		A number of attempts have been made to erase his contribution to the history of Edmonton.
		He was almost hung in Fort Edmonton during the second Riel Resistance Movement (1885), and was involved in the defense of St. Paul de Metis, Alberta from the Roman Catholic Church infamous Father Therien claim jumping of (1908).
	www.agt.net /public/dgarneau/alberta.htm (383 words)

	Home - Alberta Centennial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberta's Centennial Time Capsule, loaded with memories and mementos collected during its 2005 provincial road trip, will spend the next 100 years at the Royal Alberta Museum.
		Alberta's History Comes Alive with the Opening of a 1955 Time Capsule
		In celebration of Albertaâs centennial, four community leaders were presented with the first-ever Calgary Stampede Western Legacy Awards.
	www.albertacentennial.ca (232 words)

	eBay - alberta history, Nonfiction Books, Prints items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		History of Viking District Alberta Herbert Collier 1932
		History of the Knights of Columbus: Alberta - Nort
		History of Alberta by James Grierson MacGregor (1972)
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=alberta+history&...&krd=1 (352 words)

	SunSITE Alberta - Project History
		The University of Alberta is home to over 17 million objects and specimens that are used in over 20 academic units for research, teaching, and community service.
		Some of the groups that SunSITE Alberta benefits are faculty, researchers, and students at the University of Alberta, as well as those at other universities, and potentially the public worldwide.
		Some of our challenges for the future are handling the increasing volume of information being served from SunSITE Alberta, and arranging the collaboration of researchers in diverse fields on projects benefiting a wide audience.
	sunsite.ualberta.ca /SunSITE/Project_History.html (527 words)

	Alberta Village Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ALBERTA PROVIDES AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE OF SAWMILL TECHNOLOGY, A PLANNED COMMUNITY IN A BEAUTIFUL FOREST SETTING, AND THE POWER OF ONE MAN'S VISION TO CREATE A SUITABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR HIS EMPLOYEES.
		ALBERTA VILLAGE MUSEUM IS INCORPERATED AS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION UNDER SECTION 501 (c)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
		COPIES OF LONG RANGE PLANS FOR THE ALBERTA VILLAGE MUSEUM AND BY-LAWS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.
	www.albertavillagemuseum.com (187 words)

	Foundation News - News Articles Archive
		She chose the web five years ago, when she was executive director of the Alberta Museums Association, as a way to bring museums and heritage institutions into people’s homes and schools through their computers.
		Recently, the government of Alberta chose her idea for an Alberta online encyclopedia as a primary legacy project for the province’s 100 th-birthday celebrations.
		It is her dream that aboriginal young people will be able to research their own history, language and traditional life.
	www.heritagecommunityfdn.org /news/articles_2005_cultural.html (828 words)

	Alberta: History and Politics
		Alberta was originally part of the vast territory granted to the
		by King Charles II in 1670, and its early history was dominated by the fur trade.
		Ralph Steinhauer, a Cree, was lieutenant governor (1974–79) of Alberta; he was the first Canadian of indigenous descent to hold such a high executive post.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0856544.html (668 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta: 1905-1950: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1949, he took a leave from the University of Alberta, where he was a lecturer, to write his PhD at Clark University in Worchester, Massachusetts.
		His doctoral thesis was entitled 'A Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950' and was found by Paul Boothe at the University of Alberta library while Boothe was doing research on Alberta government spending almost forty-five years after it was written.
		This "forgotten gem" sheds light on the institutional, economic, and public development of the province from a financial perspective and documents many of the early financial decisions of the Alberta government, including the railway scandal, the rise of Social Credit, and the province's default in the Great Depression.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1552380904 (434 words)

	History of Lloydminster ALBERTA Canada - Pagelite Search The Canadian Web Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Alberta portion of the divided.....to preserve and promote local history and to spearhead..
		50th Avenue are considered to be in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan and addresses west of 50th Avenue are considered to be in Lloydminster, Alberta.
		This publication describes the evolution, history and current status of the...
	search.pagelite.ca /canada/ALBERTA/Lloydminster/History%20of (622 words)

	Friesens Corporation - History Book - Alberta / BC
		Their History Book Division has advised and produced over 3500 family and community history book projects in the past many years, and the list continues to grow.
		Rob has been a History Consultant with Friesens for 15 years, and has been in the publishing industry for 25.
		He has helped many first-time publishers produce a fine printed product of their personal or community history.
	www.friesens.com /Historybook/albertabc.asp (182 words)

	Alberta's Political History - Heritage Community Foundation
		Explore aspects of Alberta's early history through images, text and CKUA Radio Network's Heritage Trails.
		We hope that your experience fosters new understanding of the Alberta that was, a new appreciation for the Alberta that is, and optimism for the Alberta that will be.
		Alberta has a rich political heritage, one that began years before it gained provincial status.
	www.abheritage.ca /abpolitics (243 words)

	Alberta Local History Book Index
		Please check the Lookups Page for the appropriate county or the History Book List for the book title to see if there is anyone who is willing to do lookups.
		There are literally hundreds of these books about Alberta communities with many thousands of personal and family histories.
		These histories often include the names of all family members, dates and places of birth, places of origin, maiden names, marriages, etc. giving the genealogist an invaluable resource.
	www.rootsweb.com /~canab/lhb/lhbindex.html (511 words)

	Alberta History Journal : Publications : Historical Society of Alberta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberta History Journal : Publications : Historical Society of Alberta
		Please find below a sample article from an early issue and the table of contents from recent issue.
		Alberta History is indexed in the Canadian Periodical Index.
	www.albertahistory.org /journal.htm (416 words)

	Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950
		Eric Hanson — Alberta’s first, and arguably greatest, economist — wrote a number of influential books on federal-provincial relations, education finance, health care finance, and energy economics.
		He teaches in the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta and is a fellow of the Institute for Public Economics and the C.D. Howe Institute.
		Heather Edwards holds a BA in English and Political Science from the University of Alberta and an MA from the Normal Paterson School of International Affairs.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-090-4.html (433 words)

	FindArticles in Alberta History
		Journal published by the Historical Society of Alberta provides academic papers about the history of the Candian province.
		With the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the provinces of Alberta Saskatchewan, a number of interesting books have appeared...
		In 1910 everybody in southern Alberta was either a real estate agent or a client.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_hb3289 (307 words)

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