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100 unusual facts about Alberta


15 Field Ambulance

15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance is affiliated with 2995 Medical Company RCACC, based in Lac La Biche, Alberta.

1938 Pulitzer Prize

Edmonton Journal a special bronze plaque for its editorial leadership in defense of the freedom of the press in the Province of Alberta, Canada.

Acheson

Acheson, Alberta, a locality and industrial area in Alberta, Canada

Acre Loss

This is a CD/DVD set with ten musical compositions accompanied by ten short films shot in Alberta, Canada.

Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission

Connect Logistics leased the ALCB's existing warehouse in St. Albert and continues to warehouse all wine, coolers, imported beer and spirits legally sold in Alberta.

Alberta, Michigan

In 1954, Ford Motor Company donated the town of Alberta, Michigan and 1700 acres (7 km²) of land to what is now the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University.

Alydeed

In September 2004, after producing 221 winners and 11 stakes winners, Alydeed was sold to Peaceful Valley Stud in Didsbury, Alberta.

Anderson Water Systems

1983: Supplied BP Resources with ion exchange equipment, for one of the earliest commercial SAGD systems in the Alberta oil sands.

Arnold Malone

Arnold John Malone (born 9 December 1937 in Rosalind, Alberta) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Art Hanger

Arthur "Art" Hanger (born February 19, 1943 in Three Hills, Alberta) is a Canadian politician.

Aubrey Edwards

Following his exit from the game of cricket, Edwards emigrated to Canada, settling in Calgary, Alberta.

Banff National Park Pavilion

The pavilion was built on the Recreation Grounds near the south end of the Bow River Bridge on the edge of the town of Banff, itself located within Banff National Park in Alberta.

Barry Mather

Born in Condor, Alberta, he was a journalist for the Vancouver News Herald and a columnist with The Vancouver Sun before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election for the British Columbia riding of New Westminster.

Bert Brown

Bert Brown (born March 22, 1938) is a former Canadian senator and retired farmer and development consultant currently residing in Balzac, Alberta.

Bert Leboe

Born in Bawlf, Alberta, he was a lumberman by career, becoming director of Leboe Brothers Sawmills Ltd.

Brad Zavisha

Bradley J. Zavisha (born January 4, 1972 in Hines Creek, Alberta) is a former professional ice hockey left winger.

Brock Ralph

Ralph was born to Jim and Shelly Ralph in Raymond, Alberta, and attended Raymond High School, where his junior and senior football teams won consecutive provincial titles with a 25–1 record and Ralph was named the league's Most Valuable Player.

Charles Gowan

He originally settled near Namao, Alberta, but moved to Edmonton in 1904 where he engaged in logging and ranching.

Coronosaurus

Most of the ceratopsid material, if not all, from BB 138 in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, and the MRR BB near Warner, Alberta, was referred to C. brinkmani.

Daniëlle Bekkering

She finished third at the artificial championships this time, but managed to win 21 matches in total that year, including The Open Canadian Championships and the Alternative Elfstedentocht in Sylvan Lake, Canada.

David Zafer

For 25 years he has been titular conductor and violin professor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and he has made tours with this orchestra to the Young Orchestras Festivals in Aberdeen, Scotland, Boston and Banff.

Delwin Vriend

The oldest of five children, he was raised with three siblings on an organic vegetable farm to the south of Edmonton in the county of Leduc.

Dick Damron

Dick Damron (born Joseph Glenn, March 22, 1934 in Bentley, Alberta) is a Canadian country music singer, songwriter.

Don S. Williams

He grew up in the small community of Stony Plain, Alberta - just west of Edmonton where he graduated from Memorial High School in 1955.

Donald Mercer Cormie

Cormie was the founder of Cormie Ranch, a 22 thousand acre purebred cattle ranch near Tomahawk, Alberta.

Duncan Johnson

After a time at CJOC in Lethbridge, Alberta, Duncan was offered a job in Bermuda where he stayed for a year and a half.

Eddie Carpenter

Although born in Hartford, Michigan, Eddie grew up in the Lachute-Brownsburg, Quebec area where his parents lived until they moved to Red Deer, Alberta in 1913.

Edward Gajdel

In 1967 Gajdel emigrated to Canada with his family and settled in Beiseker, Alberta.

Experimental Station Suffield

Of the sites considered; Tracadie NB, Northern Quebec, Northern Ontario, Brandon, Manitoba, and Maple Creek, Saskatchewan; Suffield, Alberta was selected.

Ezra Riley

Ezra Hounsfield Riley (June 5, 1866 – January 5, 1937) was a politician and rancher from Alberta, Canada.

His brother Harold Riley would end up winning the district for the Conservatives in another by-election almost exactly a year later.

Frank S. Leffingwell

In November 1906 Leffingwell and his wife moved to Brunton, Alberta Canada known today as Warner, Alberta to take part in the great land rush.

Garry Howatt

Garry Robert Charles Howatt (born September 26, 1952 in Glendon, Alberta) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward.

History of bison conservation in Canada

Buffalo National Park, established in 1909 in Wainwright, Alberta, received its first shipment of 325 bison on June 16, 1909 after being transferred from Elk Island National Park.

History of flooding in Canada

Among some of the damage caused was extensive damage to the Calgary Zoo where several animals were killed, roads washed out at Banff, and homes flooded in Mission.

Holocaust Memorial Day and Genocide Remembrance Act

A law passed in the Alberta Legislature with unanimous consent of all parties in November 2000.

Howard Gimbel

The son of Jacob and Ruth Gimbel, he grew up along with five siblings on a grain and dairy farm east of Calgary near the small town of Beiseker.

Ivon Le Duc

He was again profiled by the Gazette in February 2007 for shipping prefabricated houses from Quebec to Alberta.

J. D. Watt

The native of Cremona, Alberta was originally drafted by the Flames in the 4th round (111th overall) of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.

James Duncan McGregor

For ten years, McGregor also managed the British-owned Canada Land and Irrigation Company and helped build reservoirs and canal systems near Milo, in Vulcan County, Alberta.

Jan Visman

These laboratories were located in Calgary until 1955 when they moved to Edmonton and are still operating alongside the Alberta Research Council at the Coal Research Centre in Devon, Alberta.

Jessica Linnebach

As a well-renowned chamber musician, Linnebach has performed with artists who include Leon Fleischer, Gary Graffman, Lynn Harrell, Jaime Laredo, and Michael Tree, at venues that include the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Aspen, and Banff festivals.

Jhonattan Vegas

In July 2012, Vegas was the runner-up finisher at the annual Telus World Skins Game to Paul Casey held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after having won the 2011 event in Banff, Alberta.

Joe Dowling

He is also well known for his work as Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, and has directed plays in all the major theatres in Ireland as well as theatres in London, New York, Washington D.C., Montreal, and Alberta.

Joel E. Ferris High School

The school is also the location of the studios of KSPS-TV, a PBS member station owned by the school board, which serves eastern Washington and surrounding states, as well as enjoying significant viewership in the province of Alberta, Canada.

John de Ruiter

John de Ruiter was born on November 11, 1959, one of two boys and two girls raised by Dutch immigrant parents in the town of Stettler in Alberta, Canada.

John Skoberg

John Leroy Skoberg (born February 2, 1926 in Lougheed, Alberta) is a former Canadian politician.

Lethbridge Bulls

The team was founded by Doug Jones, former mayor of the town of Oyen.

London Admirals

They won the right to compete in the national playdowns again and ended up in the 1999 Allan Cup in Stony Plain, Alberta.

McCoy Corporation

in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which manufactured truck- and trailer-mounted vacuum tanks and hydrovacs.

Michaela Paetsch

She has also played in major festivals such as the Marlboro, Tokyo, Davos, Berlin (Brandenburg Summer Concerts), Banff, Boulder, and "Mostly Mozart" in New York.

Murray Auto Group

Murray Chevrolet in Leduc, Alberta joined the Murray Automotive Group in August 2008.

Murray Dorin

Murray Dorin (born 21 May 1953 in Viking, Alberta) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Nine-man football

A similar nine-man modification of Canadian football is played on 100-yard fields (as opposed to the 110-yard standard field for that sport) by small schools in the province of Saskatchewan and has been proposed, but not yet adopted, in Alberta.

Nipper Pat Daly

Born in Abercrave, Wales, he moved to Marylebone, London at the age of five, then moved again with his family to the Canadian mining town of Wayne, Alberta in 1920.

Olpidium brassicae

In 1983, the Alsike, Alberta area's clover (which is a major part of horses' diet) was struck by a fungus epidemic of Olpidium brassicae, previously not seen in Canada.

Paxman Viper

The Paxman Viper is an Canadian homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Elbert Paxman and produced by Paxman's Northern Aircraft of Glenwood, Alberta, introduced in 1994.

Plains All American Pipeline

The Rainbow Pipeline system, owned by Plains Midstream Canada, ruptured, spilling 28,000 barrels of oil in a fairly isolated stretch of boreal forest in northern Alberta, about four miles from the nearest homes in Little Buffalo, Alberta.

Radomir Putnik

Mount Putnik in Alberta, Canada was named after him in 1918 for his exceptional services to the allied cause.

Ralph Klein Park

The address of the park is 12350 - 84 Street SE, adjacent to the former hamlet of Shepard.

RCAF Station De Winton

RCAF Station De Winton was a World War II air training station located south of Calgary, and east of De Winton, Alberta, Canada.

RCAF Station Vulcan

Relief or auxiliary landing fields were located at Ensign and Champion.

Rocky Mountain Express

Coming out of the Selkirks, the film takes a side trip southbound along the Columbia River and with the use of CGI, tells the story of the 1903 collapse of Turtle Mountain, which partially buried the mining town of Frank, Alberta, and the heroic rescue of an oncoming train.

Rocky Saganiuk

Rocky Ray Saganiuk (born October 15, 1957 in Myrnam, Alberta and raised in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 259 games in the National Hockey League.

Rollie Boutin

Roland David Boutin (born November 6, 1957 in Westlock, Alberta) is a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender who played for the Washington Capitals.

Rosebud School of the Arts

Located in the little hamlet of Rosebud, Alberta, Canada, one hour north east of Calgary, Rosebud School of the Arts trains students for the professional theatre in its Mentorship Programme.

Royal Alberta Museum

Premier Stelmach and the Alberta government have said that the location of the new building could be used for the terminal of an Edmonton—Calgary high speed rail line, while the old location will be the site for a new residence for the Lieutenant Governor.

Samantha Mulder

Jeremiah Smith takes Mulder to a covert bee husbandry facility in remote Alberta.

Sanna Kannasto

They started to follow Kannasto and finally she was arrested in early 1920 on her way to Manyberries, Alberta.

Saskatchewan River Crossing, Alberta

It is the only place offering basic services between Lake Louise and Jasper, including gasoline, restaurant, and lodging.

Schinia avemensis

It is found in only three colonies in the southern prairie provinces of Canada, the Spirit Dunes at Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, the Burstall dunes in south-western Saskatchewan, and in a small dune complex in the Red Deer River valley north of Bindloss.

Sean Cameron

Their relationship is tested again when Sean's brother gets a job in Alberta and wants Sean to move with him; Sean doesn't want to move because he would have to repeat the ninth grade and had already repeated the seventh grade.

Service Improvement Plan

The Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta area was transferred to Northwestel as a result of an order in 2003, since it could be served by Northwestel at a much lower cost than by Telus.

Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada

His work led to the first converts in the province; Gustave Litke of Leduc and Dr. Menzel and his family, of Stony Plain.

Silver redhorse

The silver redhorse, Moxostoma anisurum, is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Canada from Quebec to Alberta and in the United States in the Mississippi River, St. Lawrence River, Ohio River, and the Great Lakes basins.

Stettler

Stettler County No. 6, Alberta, a municipal district in central Alberta around the town

Suffield Block

Learmouth, Bemister and Kalbeck are place names along the HannaMedicine Hat Canadian Northern Railway grade within the Suffield Block that was never completed.

Susan Sloan

Susan Estelle Sloan Smith (born April 5, 1958, in Stettler, Alberta) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada who won a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Sweet Grass, Montana

In 2004, a joint border facility opened at the Sweetgrass port of entry and Coutts, Alberta, housing both Canadian and American federal authorities.

The Marshal

Due to the low shooting expense, The Marshal was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta which would double as "Anytown, U.S.A."; due to the manhunt nature of the series, they would serve as a variety of cities.

The Secret Bench of Knowledge

The unveiling of the new statue was done by Vivot, assisted by a young blind boy named Gabriel McBride, from Spruce View, Alberta, who inscribed his message in Braille.

Theodore Frederic Fairhurst

His interest in mountains was sparked while living and working in Banff, Alberta in 1969.

Thomas Logan

Thomas Logan lives in Alberta, Canada during the late 19th century and is the groundskeeper for the Howlett estate.

Tim Harwill

Tim Harwill (born Timothy Frederick Pruden at Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Métis-Canadian outlaw country singer/songwriter, based out of Thorsby, Alberta, Canada.

Tiny Thompson

After spending the 1920–21 season playing for Calgary Alberta Grain, Thompson played three seasons in Bellevue, Alberta.

Troy Loney

Troy Ayne Loney (born September 21, 1963 in Bow Island, Alberta) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey Left Winger.

Ulmus americana 'Beaverlodge'

The American Elm Ulmus americana cultivar 'Beaverlodge' was selected as a seedling in 1925 at the Beaverlodge Experimental Farm, Morden, part of the Lacombe Research Centre, Alberta, for its hardiness and vigour, and released in 1954.

Ulmus americana 'Brandon'

'Brandon' is a cultivar of the American Elm Ulmus americana, raised by Lacombe Nurseries, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, before 1969; it may be synonymous with another cultivar from the same source, known as 'Patmore'.

Velvet Glove

Testing of the Velvet Glove then moved to an operational setting at Cold Lake, Alberta.

Victoria Trail

This road follows the path of a historic trail that ran from Fort Edmonton to Fort Victoria, known as "Victoria Trail" from the perspective of Edmontonians.

VoodooPC

Voodoo was originally started as a niche PC maker in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Waterton Lake

32 km to reach the Waterton Reservoir (Est. 1964) by the village of Hill Spring.

Whistler railway station

The line is now mostly freight only, but the luxury-class Rocky Mountaineer tour trains now operate from North Vancouver via Whistler to Jasper.

Wiebo Ludwig

Wiebo Ludwig (19 December 1941 – 9 April 2012) was the leader of a Christian community named Trickle Creek, just outside Hythe, Alberta, Canada.

In 1985, he led a group of his supporters to settle in a remote farming community near Hythe, Alberta, approximately 500 km northwest of the provincial capital of Edmonton.

William Ernest Payne

Payne moved to Red Deer, Alberta in 1902 and joined the law firm started by George Welling Greene.

William Kurelek

William Kurelek was born near Whitford, Alberta in 1927, the oldest of seven children in a Ukrainian immigrant family: Bill, John, Winn, Nancy, Sandy, Paul, Iris.

William Smith Ziegler

As part of the "Academic Excellence Scholarships", the University of Alberta every year awards a number of WS Ziegler Dean of Engineering Academic Excellence Scholarships.

Wolf System stage combat training

The system was first introduced to the international community at the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Conferences held at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, in 1998.

Wood bison

These captive herds are particularly important for conservation and recovery purposes, because the larger free-ranging herds in and around Wood Buffalo National Park were infected with bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis after 7,000 plains bison (Bison bison bison) were trans-shipped by barge from Buffalo National Park near Wainwright, Alberta in the 1920s.


2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg

The women's freestyle 59 kg is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on September 27.

2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 67 kg

The women's freestyle 67 kg is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on September 27.

Ainlay

Harry Ainlay Composite High School, Canadian high school located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Al Zariwny

He was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1993 Alberta general election.

Area codes 819 and 873

(Northwestel used area code 403 for its services in Yukon and the Northwest Territories, but since 1999, 403 only serves southern Alberta including Calgary.)

Banff Springs snail

The Banff Springs snail was first identified in 1926 in the nine sulphurous hot springs of Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, and has been found nowhere else.

Betty Gillies

One of the outstanding ferry missions accomplished by the original Squadron at Wilmington came in April 1943, when four PT-26s were delivered from Hagerstown, Maryland, to DeWinton, Alberta, Canada, a distance of more than 2,500 miles.

Briar Stewart

In 2010, Stewart won an AMPIA Award for her documentary "Journey to Jamaica", a story that followed a group of First Nations cadets from Hobbema, Alberta on an exchange that took them to the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Bryan Ryley

His work is found in numerous private and public collections, such as, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Kelowna Public Art Gallery, Kelowna; Vernon Public Art Gallery; The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Petro Canada Collection; Shell Collection in Calgary, Alberta.

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

CFCW

CFCW-FM, a radio station (98.1 FM) licensed to Camrose, Alberta, Canada

CFNA-FM

The station was originally launched in 2003 by 912038 Alberta Ltd. as a rebroadcaster of CKLM in Lloydminster.

CJDV

CKDQ, a radio station (910 AM) licensed to Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, which held the call sign CJDV from 1958 to 1981

CKOS

CKOS-FM, a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Columbia Glacier

Columbia Icefield, a glacier field in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada

Diane Colley-Urquhart

Colley-Urquhart was the candidate of the province of Alberta's ruling Progressive Conservative party in a by-election called in the riding of Calgary-Glenmore for September 14, 2009, to become that riding's Member of the provincial Legislative Assembly.

E. D. Blodgett

On July 1, 2007 E.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton, Alberta.

Fred Archer

Fred W. Archer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1913–1917

Gary M. Heidnik

Shortly after Maxine's birth, Heidnik was arrested for the kidnapping and rape of Anjeanette's sister Alberta, who had been living in an institution for the mentally disabled in Penn Township.

Harvie Andre

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, on July 27, 1940, Andre was educated at the University of Alberta (Chemical ’62, PhD Chemical ’66) and pursued part of his postgraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology before becoming a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Calgary from 1966 to 1972.

Henry Atkins

Henry B. Atkins former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Howard Sapers

Sapers was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1993 Alberta general election.

Jeremy Grantham

He has stated his opposition to the Keystone Pipeline on the basis of the ruinous environmental consequences that its construction will bring to Alberta and to the entire planet due to the contribution that burning the extracted oil would make to climate change.

Kodiak Coil Tubing

Kodiak Coil Tubing is an oilfield service company incorporated in 2001, based in Alberta, Canada.

Lance Bouma

Additionally, he played for Team Alberta at the 2007 Canada Games hockey tournament, scoring two goals as the team finished in fourth place.

Lynch-Staunton

Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, AOE (1905–1990), the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1979 to 1985

Mad Bomber Society

Mad Bomber Society has played at major music events across Canada including the 2003 Stage 13 in Camrose, North County Fair in Alberta, and Folk on the Rocks Festival in Yellowknife, which was broadcast by CBC Radio North; the 2002 Salmon Arm Roots'n'Blues Fest; and the 2001 Victoria Ska Fest and North County Fair.

Marty Wood

Martin Roy (Marty) Wood is a celebrated rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada.

McQueen

McQueen, Edmonton, a neighbourhood of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Metro Cinema

Metro Cinema Edmonton, a non-profit organization and registered charity located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

My Rona Home

Hosted by Elissa Lansdell and sponsored by the Rona chain of building supply stores and The Brick furniture chain, the series pits two Alberta families against each other in a competition to design and build a dream home.

Non-aligned Scouting and Scout-like organisations

Existing since this 1920s, this organization has a more direct tie to ecological conservation, and is popular in British Columbia and Alberta.

Paul Hinman

Former Alberta Alliance leader Randy Thorsteinson stepped down as leader of the party shortly after the 2004 provincial election.

Peter Sandhu

Parmjit Singh "Peter" Sandhu is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Manning and is currently sitting as an Independent MLA after withdrawing from the Progressive Conservative Caucus due to an ongoing investigation by Alberta's ethics commissioner over business dealings.

Pincher Creek Echo

The Pincher Creek Echo is a weekly newspaper serving the Pincher Creek, Alberta area, including the communities of Cowley, the Piikani Indian Reserve and Waterton Lakes National Park.

Samurai Cowboy

The movie was filmed in 1993 in Southern Alberta, more specifically, Waterton Lakes National Park.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

Songs in a Mellow Mood

#"Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (Cahn, Chaplin, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols) – 2:58

Students Coalition Against War

The Students Coalition Against War is a Canadian organization with members in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Edmonton, Alberta, Victoria, British Columbia, Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec.

Terry Kirkland

Kirkland was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1993 Alberta general election.

Torrington Gopher Hole Museum

The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, located in Torrington, Alberta, features stuffed gophers (Richardson's ground squirrels) posed to resemble townspeople.

Trevor Greene

In September 2008, Greene moved to Nanaimo, BC, with his wife and daughter, after spending 14 months at the Alberta facility.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).

Vaughan Mills

CrossIron Mills, located outside of Calgary, Alberta, opened on August 19, 2009.

Wilfred Watson

Other members of the Watsons' intellectual circle were actor-directors Gordon Peacock and Thomas Peacocke, both associated with the University of Alberta's Studio Theatre.