Alberta
About the Province of Alberta
Nicknames:
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Capital
Official language: English
Population
Size in Area
Location
Climate
Alberta has four distinct seasons, from mild summers to snowy winters. Environment Canada ranks Alberta first for having the most comfortable overall weather in Canada.
In summer, daytime highs:
The driest and coldest winter months are January and February, when
Winter temperatures can drop as low as -30 to -40 C (-22 to -40 F) for short periods of time.
Alberta enjoys the highest number of sunny days in Canada — more than 2,300 hours of sunshine each year. Even in winter, the sky is often clear as the sun shines brightly on the sparkling snow. In June, daylight hours can reach 16 to 18 hours per day.
Physical Features
Geography
Largest City: Calgary
Economy
Famous Places to Visit
Famous People
Alberta Provincial Flower
Alberta Provincial Bird
Alberta Provincial Tree
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- Alberta is a western Canadian prairie province and home of the Calgary Stampede. Rich in oil and gas resources, Alberta has supported conservative political parties since the 1920s.
Nicknames:
- "Wild Rose Country"
- "The Princess Province"
- "The Energy Province"
- "The Sunshine Province" [1]
- "Oilberta"
- "Texas North"
- "Coalberta"
Maps of Canada and all the Provinces: http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/mapmenu.html
Capital
- Edmonton
Official language: English
- "First of all, each of Canada's 10 provinces and three territories adopts its own official language policy and only Quebec recognizes French as its official language. Quebec is the only place in Canada where French is the sole official language."
Population
- 3,645,257 (Statistics Canada, 2011 Census)
Size in Area
- 640,081.87 sq. km (247,136.99 sq. miles) (Statistics Canada, 2011 Census)
Location
- Between the 49th and 60th parallels
- Between the province of British Columbia on the west and Saskatchewan on the east, and between the Northwest Territories on the north and the state of Montana on the south
Climate
Alberta has four distinct seasons, from mild summers to snowy winters. Environment Canada ranks Alberta first for having the most comfortable overall weather in Canada.
In summer, daytime highs:
- Normally range from 20 to 25 C (68 to 77 F)
- can reach the mid to upper 30s
The driest and coldest winter months are January and February, when
- normal low nighttime temperatures range from -15 to -25 C (5 to -13 F)
- daytime temperatures range from -5 to -15 C (23 to 5 F)
Winter temperatures can drop as low as -30 to -40 C (-22 to -40 F) for short periods of time.
Alberta enjoys the highest number of sunny days in Canada — more than 2,300 hours of sunshine each year. Even in winter, the sky is often clear as the sun shines brightly on the sparkling snow. In June, daylight hours can reach 16 to 18 hours per day.
Physical Features
Geography
- Alberta is the fourth largest province in Canada, covering an area of 661,000 square kilometres (255,000 square miles) — about the same size as the American state of Texas and twice the size of Japan.
- Our landscapes vary from the majesty of the Rocky Mountains to the lush boreal forest that covers almost half the province, from fertile prairies to desert badlands. Alberta is also home to more than 600 lakes, 245 rivers and rich mineral resource deposits. You can learn about Alberta's natural heritage at more than 500 sites covering 27,525 square kilometres in Alberta parks protected for future generations.
- Bodies of water- major oceans, seas, lakes, & rivers
- Largest Lake: Lake Claire - 1,436 Square Kilometres
- Mountains/landforms: Rocky Mountains, desert badlands
Largest City: Calgary
- Location:
- Population: 1,096,833 (2011)
- Interesting facts
Economy
- Main Alberta Industries: Agriculture, forestry, telecommunications and oil and gas
Famous Places to Visit
- Images of Places in each Province: http://www.travel-images.com/canada.html
Famous People
- Bertram N. Brockhouse – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994 - shared with Clifford G. Shull for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter.
- Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, and worked at McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario.
- http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1994/brockhouse-autobio.html
- Richard E. Taylor – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 – for pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.
- Taylor was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
- “My father was the son of a Northern Irish carpenter and his Scottish wife who homesteaded on the Canadian prairies; my mother was an American, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants to the northern United States who moved to a farm in Alberta shortly after the first World War.”
- Taylor obtained in M.S. at the University of Alberta in Edmonton before moving to Stanford, USA for his graduate studies.
- http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/taylor-autobio.html
Alberta Provincial Flower
Alberta Provincial Bird
Alberta Provincial Tree
Canadian Provincial Flags
Online Visit to Canada