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unusual facts about Alberta, Canada



A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Ahcene Zemiri

In 2009 Justice Edmond Blanchard ruled that since the men were not Canadian citizens, and their connection to Canada was "tenuous", the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms did not apply to them.

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Arc flash

The Canadian Standards Association's CSA Z462 Arc Flash Standard is Canada's version of NFPA70E.

Arthur Procter

Arthur Thomas Procter (1886–1964), lawyer, judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada

The Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada is a professional award winning touring ballet company based in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Bloy

Harry Bloy (born 1946), BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the province of British Columbia, Canada

Bob McFarlane

For those achievements, he was voted the Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's top athlete of 1950 and the winner of the Norton Crowe Memorial Medal as Canada's top amateur athlete.

CFBN

The station, owned by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, aired a business news format syndicated from Canada's Business Network, as well as some travel and weather information reports for Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Dave Gunning

The track "A Game Goin' On" from Gunning's album No More Pennies was submitted to the Great Canadian Song Quest (2013 edition: Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest).

Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire

It is also famous for being the birthplace of the Anglo-Canadian poet and literary scholar, Robin Skelton (1925–97).

Economy of Hamilton, Ontario

Bunge is an oilseed processing plant and Canada’s largest canola processor.

Ectaco

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).

Footprints Recruiting

Footprints Recruiting is an ESL teacher placement agency headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Frédéric Dorion

In 1949, Dorion spoke out against the extradition from Canada of Count Jacques Charles Noel Duge de Bernonville, a Vichy France police official who had been an aide to Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and was wanted in France for having collaborated with the Nazis.

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

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.

George Leith

George Gordon Leith (1923–1996), a politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

Educated at St Paul’s School, London, Janner was evacuated to Canada during the war and attended Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

Gyro tower

Spirale,La Ronde,Montreal,Quebec,Canada (Opened in 1967 double cabin)

Hayden Lake, Idaho

The Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet flowed south from Canada, carving the basin of present-day Lake Pend Oreille and damming the Clark Fork river.

Howard Goldfarb

Howard Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

John Kalbhenn

John Kalbhenn (born April 14, 1963 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Juana Muñoz-Liceras

Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Julius Grey

Grey defended La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood, the French version of The Handmaid's Tale, in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.

Kanatak

Kanatak Lake (or Kanata Lakes), a neighbourhood officially referred to as Marchwood-Lakeside within the northern section of Kanata, Ontario, Canada.

Legal status of animals in Canada

When the Conservative Party came to power in 2006, MP Mark Holland tabled a private member’s bill that was virtually identical to Bill C-50, the most recent incarnation of C-17.

MacGillivray's Warbler

MacGillivray's Warblers are migratory and spend their summers in temporate forests located in the western United States, and in boreal forests of west Canada.

Maelstrom

Skookumchuck Narrows is a tidal rapids that develops whirlpools, on the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Canada.

Marty Adams

TV appearances include seventeen episodes (as of 25 August 2010) of Video on Trial and commercials for (Staples Inc., Fallsview Casino).

Masajiro Miyazaki

Miyazaki was born in the vicinity of Hikone City in Japan and moved to Canada in 1913 with his father.

Michael Henry Herbert

He created with the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay a joint commission to establish the border between the U.S. district of Alaska and British interests in the Dominion of Canada, where gold had been found in the 1890s, which resulted in the definitive Alaskan boundary treaty of 1903.

Montrose Swing Bridge

1910 to carry the Canada Southern Railway over the river (click the link to see a discussion of companies who used the Canada Southern tracks over the years).

Muon spin spectroscopy

This is presently achieved at few large scale facilities in the world: the CMMS continuous source at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada; the SµS continuous source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland; the ISIS and RIKEN-RAL pulsed sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, United Kingdom; and the J-PARC facility in Tokai, Japan, where a new pulsed source is being built to replace that at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

Number nine

Number 9 Audio Group, a recording studio located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Preet Banerjee

Preet Banerjee (born September 27, 1977) is the host of the television show Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network, a personal financial expert, and winner of the reality TV series The Ultimate W Expert Challenge, which aired on the W Network in Canada during the summer of 2009.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Rogers Communications

While Ted Rogers was an articling student with Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington, he started Rogers Radio Broadcasting Limited, which acquired Canada's pioneer FM station, CHFI-FM.

Rogers Telecom

Sprint Canada launched in the early 1990s with Candice Bergen as its spokesperson.

S. Narasinga Rao

He then moved to McMaster University in Canada where he received a second Master of Science degree in 1969 followed by a PhD in biophysics in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, through Center for Crystallographic Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute.

Samurai Cowboy

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

Sophie Atkinson

Taking advantage of Canadian Pacific’s free passes to artists and writers, she travelled from British Columbia through Canada to Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

Vincent Smith

Vincent Reynolds Smith (1890–1960), a judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Vlastimil Bubník

He was tied with Canada's Harry Watson and Russia's Valeri Kharlamov for the all-time Olympic scoring lead, until he was surpassed by Finland's Teemu Selänne in the 2010 Winter Olympics

Wong Foon Sien

He supported the Liberal Party of Canada throughout his life, but supported Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Jung in the Canadian federal elections of 1957 and 1958.

YLC

The Young Liberals of Canada, the national youth wing of the Liberal Party of Canada

Youth ministry

There are organizations within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (the primary organization of Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States), as well as within the Canadian Unitarian Council (the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada), which minister to and with youth, of which Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) is the largest and most apparent.


see also

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.

2011 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament

The top seven women's teams at the 2011 European Curling Championships, Scotland, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, will join defending champions Sweden in representing their respective nations at the 2012 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

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.

2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg

The women's freestyle 72 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 28.

ACAC

Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference, the governing body for colligiate sports in Alberta, Canada

Acheson

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

AFPA

Alberta Forest Products Association, a non-profit industry association operating out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ainlay

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

Anna's Swedish Thins

In North America, the company Anna's of North America has a bakery in High River, 50 kilometers south of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and sells the biscuits under the brand name Anna's Swedish Thins.

Archbishop Oscar Romero High School

Archbishop Oscar Romero High School is a high school located in the Callingwood neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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.

Baptized in Blood

The band's lead guitarist, Josh Torrance, has appeared as a co-host on "The Meltdown", which is a one hour radio show that airs online and on 4 FM radio stations in Alberta, Canada.

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.

Careless Jewel

She is owned by Verne Dubinsky of Alberta, Canada who races under the name Donver Stables, and is trained by Josie Carroll from a base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto.

CBRT

CBRT-DT, a television station (channel 9) licensed to serve Calgary, Alberta, Canada

César Tovar

In August 1990, he managed the Venezuelan team to a 1–7 last place finish in the Baseball World Cup, which was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

CFCW

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

CJDV

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

CKMP

CKMP-FM, a radio station (90.3 FM) licensed to Calgary, Alberta, Canada

CKOS

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

CKRD

CHCA-TV, a defunct television station (channel 6) licensed to Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which held the call sign CKRD-TV from 1965 to 2005

CHUB-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which held the call sign CKRD from 1949 to 2000

Fritzolenellus

F. truemani was collected in the Lower Cambrian (lower Olenellus-zone) of Alberta, Canada (Mural Formation, in the talus slope immediately West of Mumm Peak, from the middle Mural Formation, 125 m above the base of that formation, just North of the Mount Robson Provincial Park boundary).

Grey Nuns Hospital

Grey Nuns Community Hospital - an acute care hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Henderson Stadium

Spitz Stadium or Henderson Stadium, a stadium in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Hobbema

Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada, an unincorporated community formerly named Hobbema

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.

K19

K19 pipe, a diatreme in the southwestern part of the Buffalo Head Hills kimberlite field in Northern Alberta, Canada

Kodiak Coil Tubing

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

Marty Wood

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

McCoy Corporation

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

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

Namao

CFB Edmonton, a Canadian Forces Base in Sturgeon County adjacent to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Northtown Mall

North Town Centre, formerly North Town Mall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

O'Chiese 203

O'Chiese 203 is an Indian reserve in Alberta, Canada and is one of two reserves under the administration of the O'Chiese First Nation, a Saulteaux government.

Parkyn

Robert Parkyn (1862–1939), popular municipal and provincial level politician and tradesman in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Radomir Putnik

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

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.

Rundle Heights, Edmonton

Rundle Heights is a residential neighbourhood overlooking the North Saskatchewan River valley in the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, named for Methodist missionary Robert Terrill Rundle.

Rutherford House

"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherford", Douglas R. Babcock, 1989, The University of Calgary Press, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ISBN 0-919813-65-8

Thomas Logan

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

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).

VoodooPC

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

Wavefront Technology Solutions

Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc. is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta Canada and has offices in Calgary, Alberta and Cambridge, Ontario.

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.

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.