A report on Alberta
One of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Lake Louise (Alberta)
2 linksLake Louise (named Ho-run-num-nay (Lake of the Little Fishes) by the Stoney Nakota First Nations people) is a glacial lake within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Red Deer River
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The Red Deer River is a river in Alberta and a small portion of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Hudson Bay
6 linksLarge body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1230000 km2.
Large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1230000 km2.
It drains a very large area, about 3861400 km2, that includes parts of southeastern Nunavut, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, all of Manitoba, and parts of the U.S. states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana.
Rupert's Land
7 linksTerritory in British North America comprising the Hudson Bay drainage basin, a territory in which a commercial monopoly was operated by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870.
Territory in British North America comprising the Hudson Bay drainage basin, a territory in which a commercial monopoly was operated by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870.
Areas belonging to Rupert's Land were mostly in present-day Canada and included the whole of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, and northern parts of Ontario and Quebec.
Athabasca oil sands
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The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada – roughly centred on the boomtown of Fort McMurray.
Shortgrass prairie
3 linksEcosystem located in the Great Plains of North America.
Ecosystem located in the Great Plains of North America.
The prairie stretches through parts of Alberta, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kansas, and passes south through the high plains of Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.
Fort McMurray
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Fort McMurray is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada.
List of rivers of Alberta
0 linksAlberta's rivers flow towards three different bodies of water, the Arctic Ocean, the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
Alberta's rivers flow towards three different bodies of water, the Arctic Ocean, the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
Alberta is located immediately east of the continental divide, so no rivers from Alberta reach the Pacific Ocean.
North Saskatchewan River
6 linksGlacier-fed river that flows from the Canadian Rockies continental divide east to central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River to make up the Saskatchewan River.
Glacier-fed river that flows from the Canadian Rockies continental divide east to central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River to make up the Saskatchewan River.
The Saskatchewan River system is the largest shared between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.