Foothills No. 31 is a municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada south of Calgary in Division No. 6. Motto: Fortis et Liber (Strong and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Area 661,848 km² (6th) - Land 642,317 km² - Water 19,531 km² (2. ... Motto: Heart of the new west Area: 712. ... Division No. ...
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1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Central and parts of northwestern Alberta in the Peace River region are largely aspen parkland, a biome transitional between prairie to the south and boreal forest to the north.
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.
Central and northern Alberta and the region farther north is the nesting-ground of the migratory birds.
When it was named, Alberta was one of four provisional districts of the North-West Territories, and included only part of the present province with the same name.
The single greatest event in Alberta history was the arrival of the railway in 1883.
Alberta's population grew to 73,000 in 1901; to 374,000 in 1911; and to 584,000 in 1921!