Alberta facts$

List of 39 silly alberta facts$ 

(not to be taken seriously)

1. The name of the state is not "Al-Amerika" but rather "The State of Alberta."

2. Albertans are known as "the friendly people."

3. Albertan women are known as "the ladies."

4. The city of Calgary was named after a Native American chief, Chief Joseph.

5. In 1885, the United States Congress passed legislation that made it illegal to use the term "Alberta" in any federal documents or publications. This law has been called the "Chief Joseph Law."

6. In 1901, the first "whoops" in Canadian legislation was sounded when Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier introduced a bill to extend Sunday shopping from Saturday to a sixth day.

7. When the Legislative Building in Edmonton was built in 1912, one of the structural engineers on staff was Frank Lloyd Wright.

8. The "land rush" in 1906 brought about 3,000 settlers to Alberta in a matter of weeks.

9. In 1915, the first "Battle of the Overland Stage" took place in Alberta when two gun-slingers held up 56 stagecoaches all the way from California.

10. In 1925, a "Billion Dollar" bond was issued in Alberta, Canada to finance the building of the provincial capital in Edmonton. This bond was worth one billion dollars in 2008 US dollars.

11. A "boom" (or "rush") is a sudden increase in population or in industrial or agricultural activity.

12. The province of Alberta used to be known as the "Flower pot of Canada" due to all the wild flowers that were planted and allowed to bloom especially along railroad lines.

13. In 1923, oil was discovered in the sandy hills of central Alberta.

14. In 1930, the first "Golden Hat" was awarded to a lone wheat farmer in the "Golden Triangle" as a reward for producing more than two sacks of wheat per year.

15. The 1969 "prairie fires" burned close to 2 million acres of land.

16. The great depression took a huge toll on the people of Alberta. More than one person in every five was unemployed at one time.

17. In 1931, there were four major oil "booms" in Alberta.

18. The most famous of these "booms" occurred between 1917 and 1919. This came to be known as the "Petroleum Era."

19. In 1931, there were eight thousand people living in the city of Calgary.

20. In 1935, the "Brigh-Tex Mill" was opened in the city of Medicine Hat in southern Alberta. This mill was the largest industrial building in North America at the time.

21. In 1937, the first oil was shipped from the North-West Territories.

22. In 1938, the first "oil patch" baby was born in the city of Calgary.

23. In 1939, the "Golden Age of the Playhouse" was in full swing in Alberta. During this time many wonderful playhouses were built in several towns.

24. In 1941, the first "Calgary Stampede" took place. This event included a rodeo, a chuck-a-luck game, and a goat racing event.

25. The first K-Mart opened in Canada in Edmonton in 1963.

26. In 1967, the first "Super K-Marts" opened in Alberta. These stores contained features not found anywhere else in Canada such as a "safe room" and security checkpoints.

27. In 1989, the first "Big-box store" was opened in Canada in Edmonton by Target. These stores contained more than just shelves and racks, they contained audiovisual equipment, computer kiosks, and gaming rooms.

28. In 1991, the first "Calgary Flames" Stanley Cup was won by the team.

29. In 1993, the "Cadillac Ranch" was opened in a wheat field in northern Texas. This was the first piece of "art" erected by the Bohemian club.

30. The province of Alberta has a semi-arid climate. It is considerably hotter and drier than the rest of Canada, and it can get as cold as negative thirty degrees Celsius.

31. The province of Alberta has two soil types. These are "Black Sand" soil and "Tongue and Groove" soil. Black Sand soil is found only along the shores of the "prairie sea". It is very fertile, but drains slowly. Tongue and Groove soil is found everywhere else. It is more common, but drains very quickly.

32. The loamy sand of the "Black Sand" soil type is excellent for growing wheat.

33. In 2000, the "Alberta" replaced the "Edmonton Oilers" as Canada's National Hockey League team.

34. The province of Alberta has a large amount of "Cold Fresh Water Lakes".

35. The province of Alberta has more "Towns" than any other province except Ontario.

36. The province of Alberta is the "birthplace" of more famous people than any other place in Canada. The following people were all born in Alberta:

Jim Carrey

Drew Barrymore

Tyra Banks

Connie Saldivar

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Kelsey Grammer

Clint Eastwood

Marlon Brando

Al Pacino

Tim Wellman

37. There are more "dinosaur species" in Alberta than any other place in North America. The most famous of these is the "Alberta" dinosaur. This creature was discovered in a fossil state by a farmer named "Les Parrott" in 1912. The original bones were sent to the "Canadian Museum of Nature" where they were studied thoroughly. In the late 1970's a farmer found a number of bones on his land. It took a long time to properly identify these as "dinosaur" bones, but in 1997 scientists finally realized what they had found. The "Alberta" dinosaur is a herbivore, and probably lived during the "Cme Jurassic Period" about 150 million years ago. It was about six metres long and three metres tall. It weighed about eight tonnes.

38. The province of Alberta is the fifth largest in North America.

39. The province of Alberta has the largest "Grain Elevator" in the world. The elevator is located in "Fort Saskatchewan" and can hold about 3.5 million tonnes of " Grain". That's more than twice the weight of the Empire State Building!

 

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