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Summer brings many festivals to the province. Edmonton's Fringe Festival is the world's second largest after Edinburgh's. Edmonton also hosts some of Canada's largest Folk Festivals, Multicultural Festivals, and Heritage Days (to name a few). Calgary is also home to Carifest, the second largest Caribbean festival in the nation (after Caribana in Toronto). These events highlight the province's cultural diversity and love of entertainment. Most of the major cities have several performing theatre companies who entertain in venues as diverse as the Arts Barns and the Francis Winspear Centre. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is the capital of Scotland and its second-largest city. ... West Indian redirects here. ... Caribana is a festival of Caribbean culture and traditions held each summer in the city of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. ...

Both cities brag of their first-class Canadian Football League and National Hockey League teams. Soccer, rugby and lacrosse are played professionally in Alberta. However, Alberta's last Pacific Coast League baseball team, the Edmonton Trappers, left the province (and Canada) after the 2004 season. Lions Stampeders Eskimos Roughriders Blue Bombers Tiger-Cats Argonauts Alouettes The Canadian Football League (CFL), also known by its French name, Ligue canadienne de football (LCF), is a professional sports league located in Canada that plays Canadian football, and is the second most popular sports league in Canada. ... NHL redirects here. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... A rugby union scrum. ... The Dive Shot. Lacrosse is a team sport that is played by ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals (each worth one point traditionally... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... The Edmonton Trappers were a minor league baseball (Triple A) team in the Pacific Coast League, ending with the 2004 season. ...

Both Edmonton and Calgary have quality symphony orchestras. Many performing venues exist throughout the province, notably Calgary's Jack Singer Concert Hall and Edmonton's Francis Winspear Centre. The Northern Lights Theatre located at Keyano College in Fort McMurray is known throughout western Canada for its quality performances and curriculum. Several well-known theatre artists got their start in an Alberta theatre. Orchestra at City Hall (Edmonton). ... Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ... Fort McMurray, colloquially referred to as Fort Mac, is a hamlet in the northeastern part of Canadas western province of Alberta, in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. ...

Architecturally, the province takes pride in the work of Douglas Cardinal, whose curved designs lend Red Deer College and other Alberta facilities a distinct flavor. Calgary is known for its New York- or Toronto-style glass-and-steel high-rises while Edmonton boasts many facades from the early 1900s. Sadly, many of the valuable historical buildings of both cities were destroyed in a 60's attempt to "modernize." However, Edmonton's extensive reconstruction of the original Fort Edmonton, together with themed streets for period architecture (often including the original buildings) ensures that the past is alive and well in the city. National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. - Cardinal was forced off of the project before completion and appears not to be content with the finished design. ... Established in 1964, Red Deer College is a college of approximately 10,000 located students in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. ... Fort Edmonton, circa 1900. ...

The province's universities stand equal to and well above many other institutions of higher learning in Canada. Alberta boasts one of the few successful and accredited distance learning universities (Athabasca University) in Canada. Of the schools of higher learning one cannot ignore the two major colleges, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology which produce annually thousands of qualified, ready-to-work graduates in disciplines as varied as 'Mechanical Technology' and 'Baking'. Alberta's educational institutions are second to none in Canada. Athabasca University, headquartered in Athabasca, Alberta, is a fully accredited institution specialized in the delivery of distance education courses and programs. ... The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is located in Edmonton, Alberta. ... Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, or SAIT (say-t) as its referred to locally, is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ...

Although Alberta lacks a preponderance of notable large art galleries, many small galleries which focus on local artists and artisans exist in the major centres. Canadian and northern Canadian art and crafts are notable in their popularity. Local sculptors, painters, weavers and many other artisans show original works throughout the province.

Many films and some television shows have been shot in Alberta. Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and the CBC's Jake and the Kid are notables among many. For years, the TV program Viper was shot in downtown Calgary. Though it could be said that few films and television shows are filmed in Alberta compared to the rest of Canada, this is really a matter of finances and grants from the various provincial governments and can change on a whim or an election. Some notable oases in this desert are Banff, a Rocky Mountain resort town that is home to the annual Banff World Television Festival, and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller which has a remarkable collection of dinosaur fossils found in the Alberta badlands. Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film which tells the story of a retired gunslinger who takes on one more job for the money. ... Banff townsite (left) and Tunnel Mountain (right) on the Bow River as seen from Sulphur Mountain. ... The Banff World Television Festival is a festival in the town of Banff, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. ... The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, 90 minutes drive east of Calgary, is known the world over as an outstanding paleontology museum and research facility. ... Drumheller is a town (formerly a city) in the Badlands of east-central Alberta, on the Red Deer River. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ...

Tourism is also important to Albertans. Millions of visitors come to Alberta each year just for the Stampede and for Edmonton's Capital EX (formerly called Klondike Days). Edmonton is also the gateway to the only Canadian route to the Yukon gold fields, and the only route which did not require gold-seekers to travel the exhausting and dangerous Chilkoot Pass. Tourists at Oahu island, Hawaii Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. ... Rider at the Stampede Rodeo The Calgary Stampede, which bills itself as The Greatest Outdoor show on Earth, is a large festival, exhibition, and rodeo held in Calgary, Alberta for ten days every July. ... The logo for Edmontons Capital EX 2006 Edmontons Capital EX is an annual 10-day exhibition that is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... This article is about Yukon Territory in Canada. ... Goldfield is the name of two towns in the United States: Goldfield, Iowa Goldfield, Nevada Goldfield is also a common name for the wildflower Penstemon barbatus Goldfield or goldfields may also describe an area where Gold mining occurs. ... Chilkoot Pass (el. ...

Visitors throng to Calgary for ten days every July for a taste of "Stampede Fever". As a celebration of Canada's own Wild West and the cattle ranching industry, the Stampede welcomes around 1.2 million people each year. Only an hour's drive from the Rocky Mountains, Calgary also makes a visit to tourist attractions like Banff National Park something which can easily be done in a day. Calgary and Banff each host nearly 5 million tourists yearly. Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ... Rider at the Stampede Rodeo The Calgary Stampede, which bills itself as The Greatest Outdoor show on Earth, is a large festival, exhibition, and rodeo held in Calgary, Alberta for ten days every July. ... Rockies may also refer to the National League Baseball team, the Colorado Rockies. ... Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks Banff National Park is Canadas oldest national park, established in 1885, in the Canadian Rockies. ...

Edmonton is Alberta's number one tourism destination in several key categories and Alberta's top-ranked metropolitan destination in other categories. Edmonton is the number one destination in overall person-visits to Alberta and the number one destination in person-visits from other provinces. Edmonton is also Alberta’s number one metropolitan destination for U.S. visitations and revenues.

Alberta is an important destination for tourists who love to ski and hike; Alberta boasts several world-class ski resorts. Hunters and fishermen from around the world are able to take home impressive trophies and tall tales from their experiences in Alberta's wilderness. A ski resort is a ski area with a village and/or high-end accommodations and other amenities at the base of the mountain. ... Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game. ... A tall tale is a story that claims to explain the reason for some natural phenomenon, or sometimes illustrates how skilled/intelligent/powerful the subject of the tale was. ...

Alberta also has a large ethnic population. Both the Chinese and East Indian communities are significant, and Alberta is home to the largest Francophone population west of Ontario, most of whom live in the north of the province. As reported in the 2001 census, the Chinese represented nearly four percent of Alberta's population and East Indians represented better than two percent. Both Edmonton and Calgary have large Chinatowns. Indigenous Albertans make up approximately three percent of the population. The Franco-Albertans are an extended community of French Canadians or French-speaking people living in Alberta. ... Motto: Satyameva Jayate (Sanskrit) सत्यमेव जयते  (DevanāgarÄ«) Truth Alone Triumphs Anthem: Jana Mana   Capital New Delhi Largest city Mumbai (Bombay) Official languages Hindi, English + 21 other official languages Government Federal republic  - President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam  - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Independence from the UK   - Declared 15 August 1947   - Republic 26... This article is about sections of an urban area associated with a large number of Chinese residents or commercial activities. ...

The major contributors to Alberta's ethnic diversity have been the European nations. Forty-four percent of Albertans are of British descent, and there are also large numbers of Germans, Ukrainians, and Scandinavians. Edmonton's August Heritage Festival brings together nearly four hundred thousand participants from over seventy cultures around the world living in or near the city. Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. ... The Edmonton Heritage Festival is an annual celebration of Albertas ethnic diversity. ...

See also

• Festivals in Alberta

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