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unusual facts about Athabasca-Lac La Biche


Lac la Biche

Athabasca-Lac La Biche, a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, from 1986 to 1993


15 Field Ambulance

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

Jasper National Park

Major river systems originating in the park include the North Saskatchewan River (part of the Hudson Bay basin), and the Athabasca and Smoky rivers (part of the Arctic Ocean basin).

Lac la Biche

Lac La Biche-St. Paul, a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, from 1993 to present

Lac La Biche, Alberta

Raymond Lemieux – organic chemist pioneer in discovery of the synthesis of sucrose

Midwestern Canadian Shield forests

Protected areas include Opasquia Provincial Park, Woodland Caribou Provincial Park and Pipestone River Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario, Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park in eastern Manitoba and Lac la Ronge and Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park in Saskatchewan.

Pemmican War

On March 16th, NWC’s Samuel Black seizes the HBC’s Île-à-la-Crosse post in Athabasca and Green Lake post for the second time on the 20th.

Richard Edward Hall

Hall ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Liberal candidate in the electoral district of Athabasca in the 1955 Alberta general election.

Samuel Black

Assigned to work in the Athabasca Department (mostly in present-day Alberta) in 1805, Black served as a clerk there for fifteen years.

Voyageurs

They were instrumental in retrieving furs from all over North-America but were especially important in the rugged Athabasca region of the North-West.

Whirlpool River

The Moab Lake Road parallels the Whirlpool near its confluence with the Athabasca River.

William Bompas

William Carpenter Bompas (20 January 1834 – 9 June 1906) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the Selkirk (Yukon) diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert's Land diocese.


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