Alberta and Related Topics

Calgary

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In 1875, the North-West Mounted Police erected Fort Calgary in an effort to police the area.

Downtown Calgary after the Calgary Fire of 1886

Postcard of 1st Street West, Calgary, postmarked May 8, 1913

Rounding up cattle for the first Calgary Stampede in 1912. The Stampede is one of the world's largest rodeos.

Program for the 1912 Calgary Stampede, featuring the Big Four: Burns, Lane, Cross, and McLean

Richard Bedford Bennett, the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada, and first Prime Minister from Calgary.

From the 1970s onward, the population of Calgary grew significantly, with many high-rises constructed to accommodate the growth.

Calgary's Eau Claire community, adjacent to downtown and Prince's Island Park

Ice skating on the frozen stream in Bowness Park. Winters in Calgary are cold and dry, with temperatures dropping below -20 C.

The Arts Commons is a multi-venue arts centre in Downtown Calgary.

Calgary's Central Library has won numerous international architectural and urban design awards.

The Calgary Stampede draws in over a million visitors every year, doubling the city's population during the event.

Calgary has held an LGBT+ Pride event every year since 1988.

Featuring a mix of boutiques, high-end retailers and restaurants, Stephen Avenue is a major pedestrian mall and tourist attraction in Calgary.

Despite no longer being the tallest building in the city, the Calgary Tower remains a prominent attraction and symbol of Calgary's culture.

The grassy fields of Nose Hill Park overlooking Canada Olympic Park and the Canadian Rockies

The Peace Bridge is a pedestrian and cycling bridge at Eau Claire Park, suspended over the Bow River.

The Scotiabank Saddledome is a multi-use indoor arena that is home to the NHL's Calgary Flames and the NLL's Calgary Roughnecks.

McMahon Stadium is the home stadium for the CFL's Calgary Stampeders and was the Olympic Stadium for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Calgary Municipal Building is the seat of local government for the City of Calgary. Attached to the building is the historic Calgary City Hall built in 1911.

Members of the Calgary Police Service on duty in Rideau Park

The CTrain is Calgary's light rail transit system, boasting the second-highest ridership in North America.

Calgary International Airport is the gateway to Canada's Rocky Mountains.

Calgary has the largest paved pathway network in North America.

Calgary's +15 skyway network is the world's most extensive elevated pedestrian skywalk system.

Located in Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre is the largest hospital in the province of Alberta.

The University of Calgary campus spans approximately 200 hectares (490 acres).

Calgary is a very large city in the western Canadian province of Alberta.

Edmonton

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The last of five Fort Edmontons was constructed in 1830. It was the third to be built within present day Edmonton.

The completed Alberta Legislature Building in 1914, just above the last Fort Edmonton. The city was selected as Alberta's capital in 1905.

Edmonton City Hall is the home of the municipal government for Edmonton.

The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that bisects the city.

Winters in Edmonton are typically cold and dry.

Downtown Edmonton is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.

Victoria Promenade in the residential neighbourhood of Oliver. The neighbourhood borders downtown Edmonton.

Houses in Crestwood, a residential neighbourhood typical of most suburban areas of Edmonton

St. Joseph's Basilica is the only basilica in Western Canada. In 2011, 26.2 percent of residents of Edmonton identified as Catholic.

Edmonton is home to Alberta Innovates, a provincially-funded applied research and development corporation based in Edmonton's Bell Tower.

View of Edmonton's central business district in 2018

West Edmonton Mall is the second-largest shopping mall in the Americas.

Francis Winspear Centre for Music is a performing arts centre in downtown Edmonton. The centre is home to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

The Edmonton Folk Music Festival. Edmonton plays host to several large festivals each year.

Opened in 1915, the Princess Theatre is the oldest cinema in the city.

A trail in the North Saskatchewan River valley parks system

Interior entrance lobby to the new Royal Alberta Museum

Fort Edmonton Park is Canada's largest living museum by area.

The Art Gallery of Alberta is Edmonton's largest art gallery.

Rogers Place is a multi-use indoor arena, and the present home arena for the NHL's Edmonton Oilers.

Commonwealth Stadium is an open-air multi-purpose stadium. Opened in 1978 for the 1978 Commonwealth Games, the facility is also used as the home stadium for CFL's Edmonton Elks.

Edmonton is home to the Alberta Legislature Building, the meeting place for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Edmonton Fire Rescue Services Headquarters, Administration Offices, & Number 1 Station

Edmonton Police Service vehicle at Downtown Headquarters

Control tower for Edmonton International Airport. The international airport is the primary air passenger and air cargo facility for the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.

An ETS bus at the Stadium Station transit centre

Anthony Henday Drive in Edmonton. The freeway is the main ring road for the city.

The Edmonton Composting Facility was the largest co-composting facility in North America by volume and capacity.

Headquarters of Edmonton Public Schools, one of three publicly funded school districts in the city

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

British Columbia

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Westernmost province of Canada.

British Columbia's geography is epitomized by the variety and intensity of its physical relief, which has defined patterns of settlement and industry since colonization.

Outline map of British Columbia with significant cities and towns

Köppen climate types in British Columbia

The Okanagan region has a climate suitable to vineyards.

Cheakamus Lake in Garibaldi Provincial Park

'Namgis Thunderbird Transformation Mask, 19th century

Kwakwaka'wakw house pole, second half of the 19th century

Cattle near the Maas by Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp. Moody likened his vision of the nascent Colony of British Columbia to the pastoral scenes painted by Cuyp.

Lord Strathcona drives the Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway, at Craigellachie, November 7, 1885. Completion of the transcontinental railroad was a condition of British Columbia's entry into Confederation.

Memorial to the "last spike" in Craigellachie

Statue of Queen Victoria outside the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria

Internment camp for Japanese Canadians during World War II

W.A.C. Bennett, 25th premier of British Columbia

British Columbia's pavilion for Expo 86, Vancouver

The Coquihalla Highway was one of the legacies of the Expo 86 world's fair, though creation of the toll highway sparked controversy. Tolling was removed in 2008.

The cauldron of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

Population density map of British Columbia, with regional district borders shown

The British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria

Coat of arms' escutcheon of the current lieutenant governor

John Horgan is premier, BC's head of government.

The meeting chamber of the Legislative Assembly

The flower of the Pacific dogwood is often associated with British Columbia.

The Alex Fraser Bridge on Highway 91 between Richmond and Delta

British Columbia Highway 1 near Brentwood, Burnaby

CPR train traversing the Stoney Creek Bridge

Spirit of Vancouver Island S-class ferry

Hatley Castle on the campus of Royal Roads University

Aerial view of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby

Quest University Canada Academic Building, aerial view

It borders the Canadian province of Alberta to the east and the Canadian territories of Yukon and the Northwest Territories to the north.

Saskatchewan

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Prairie and boreal province in Western Canada, the middle of the three prairie provinces.

A topographic map of Saskatchewan, showing cities, towns, rural municipality borders, and natural features.

Henry Kelsey observing a herd of bison on the western plains. Kelsey is believed to be the first European to visit Saskatchewan.

The Battle of Batoche was a battle during the North-West Rebellion.

An ad to attract immigrants to Western Canada, 1898

A banquet being held to commemorate the creation of Saskatchewan, 1905

Farmers at work in 1907. The introduction of Marquis wheat saw wheat output soar in the province.

A memorial stone for Ukrainian Canadians interned during the First World War at the Saskatchewan Railway Museum

An equestrian statue of Elizabeth II in Regina. The statue was unveiled by the Queen in 2005.

A PotashCorp mine in Patience Lake. The province is the world's largest exporter of potash.

The Royal University Hospital is one of several hospitals operating in Saskatchewan.

The Saskatchewan Legislative Building serves as the meeting place for the province's legislative assembly.

Distribution of Saskatchewan's 466 urban, 296 rural and 24 northern municipalities (2013)

The CanAm Highway near Buffalo Pound Lake

The Royal Saskatchewan Museum is a natural history museum based in Saskatchewan.

Mosaic Stadium is the home stadium for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a professional Canadian football team.

The official tartan of Saskatchewan, created in 1961

It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota.

Montana

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State in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

Early Indian treaty territories in Montana

Chief Joseph and Col. John Gibbon met again on the Big Hole Battlefield site in 1889.

Buffalo Soldiers, Ft. Keogh, Montana, 1890. The nickname was given to the "Black Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought.

Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park

Belly River in Waterton Lakes National Park

Missouri Breaks region in central Montana

Quake Lake was created by a landslide during the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake.

Temperature and precipitation for Montana's capital city, Helena

Köppen climate types of Montana, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Missoula, the second-largest city in Montana

Indian reservations in Montana. Borders are not exact.

Montana ranks 2nd nationally in craft breweries per capita.

First Interstate Center, in downtown Billings, is the tallest building in Montana.

Montana State Bobcats football at Bobcat Stadium (Montana State University), Bozeman

The Palisades area on the north end of the ski area at Red Lodge Mountain Resort

Guided snowmobile tours in Yellowstone Park

Yellowstone Airport, West Yellowstone, Montana

Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election

It is bordered by Idaho to the west; North Dakota and South Dakota to the east; Wyoming to the south; and by the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north.

The summits of the Teton Range in Wyoming

Rocky Mountains

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The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

Glaciers, such as Jackson Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana, as shown here, have dramatically shaped the Rocky Mountains.

Tilted slabs of sedimentary rock in Roxborough State Park near Denver

Bighorn sheep (such as this lamb in Alberta) have declined dramatically since European-American settlement of the mountains

Cherokee Trail near Fort Collins, Colorado, from a sketch taken June 7, 1859

The Saltair Pavilion on the Great Salt Lake in 1900

Drilling rig for natural gas near the Wind River Range

Castle Geyser in Yellowstone National Park

Of the 50 most prominent summits of the Rocky Mountains, 12 are located in British Columbia, 12 in Montana, ten in Alberta, eight in Colorado, four in Wyoming, three in Utah, three in Idaho, and one in New Mexico.

Northwest Territories

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Federal territory of Canada.

Köppen climate types in the Northwest Territories

Members of the Coppermine expedition caught by a storm in Coronation Gulf, August 1821

Map of the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land, 1859

A proclamation concerning the formation of the North-West Territories, from recently transferred territories to the Canadian government

Sign for an eye clinic in Yellowknife with all 11 official territorial languages

Aerial view of the Diavik Diamond Mine in the North Slave Region

Nahanni National Park Reserve, one of several national parks and reserves in the Northwest Territories

The chamber of the Northwest Territories Legislative Building

Administrative regions of the Northwest Territories

A snow fort at the annual Snowking Winter Festival in Yellowknife

Entrance to Yellowknife Airport, the largest airport in the territory

The Northwest Territories is bordered by Canada's two other territories, Nunavut to the east and Yukon to the west, and by the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the south, and may touch Manitoba to the southeast (historic surveys being uncertain) at a quadripoint including Nunavut and Saskatchewan.