A report on Alberta

A topographic map of Alberta, showing cities, towns, municipal district (county) and rural municipality borders, and natural features
Moraine Lake at Banff National Park. The Alberta Mountain forests makes up the southwestern boundary of Alberta.
Köppen climate types in Alberta
Southeastern Alberta features a semi-arid steppe climate.
The wild rose is the provincial flower of Alberta.
A bighorn sheep in Kananaskis Country. The bighorn sheep is the provincial mammal of Alberta.
Specimens at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, located in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation at Dinosaur Provincial Park. Some of the specimens, from left to right, are Hypacrosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Gorgosaurus (both in the background), Tyrannosaurus, and Triceratops.
Blackfoot Confederacy warriors in Macleod in 1907
Fort Chipewyan, a trading post and regional headquarters for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820
Downtown Calgary was one of several areas afflicted during the 2013 Alberta floods.
Population density of Alberta
Petroleum resources in Alberta
Cows in Rocky View. Nearly one-half of Canadian beef is produced in Alberta.
A canola field in Alberta
The Three Sisters at Bow Valley Provincial Park in Canmore
Bronco riding at the Calgary Stampede. The event is one of the world's largest rodeos
Distribution of Alberta's 6 specialized municipalities (red) and 74 rural municipalities, which include municipal districts (often named as counties) (orange), improvement districts (dark green) and special areas (light green) (2020)
The Alberta Legislative Building serves as the meeting place for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in St. Albert. The RCMP provides municipal policing throughout most of Alberta.
The University of Alberta in 2005. The institution is the oldest, and largest university in Alberta.
Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary is the largest hospital in Alberta.
Calgary International Airport, the province's largest airport by passenger traffic.
A Via Rail passenger train passing by freight trains in the background, at Jasper station
Highway 1 (the Trans-Canada Highway) at Alberta Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail).

One of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

- Alberta

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Westbound to the Rocky Mountains

Alberta Highway 1

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Major east–west highway in Southern Alberta that forms the southern mainline of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Major east–west highway in Southern Alberta that forms the southern mainline of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Westbound to the Rocky Mountains
Eastbound near Canmore
Wildlife overpass on eastbound Alberta Highway 1 in Banff National Park
Highway 1 and 1X interchange and with crossing of the Kananaskis River visible.

It spans approximately 534 km from Alberta's border with British Columbia in the west to its border with Saskatchewan in the east.

Canadian Pacific Railway

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Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.

Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.

An alternative CP logo, featuring a beaver, Canada's national animal
An eastbound CPR freight train at Stoney Creek Bridge descending from Rogers Pass
John A. Macdonald
C.P.R. 2-6-0 locomotive no. 2000 and employees
Canadian Pacific Railway Crew laying tracks at lower Fraser Valley, 1883
Unidentified engineers of the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey, 1872
Map from 1890 showing system of land survey and the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba, Alberta, Assiniboia, and Saskatchewan. First Nations reserves are marked throughout with "I.R." for "Indian Reserve."
William Cornelius Van Horne
C.P.R. trestle bridge
Donald Smith, later known as Lord Strathcona, drives the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway, at Craigellachie, 7 November 1885. Completion of the transcontinental railway was a condition of BC's entry into Confederation.
Telegram to Prime Minister John A. Macdonald announcing the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 7 November 1885
The system in 1906, soon after the construction of the transcontinental railway
First Transcontinental Train arrives in Port Arthur on 30 June 1886
One of the CPR's land offerings, 1883
CPR advertisement highlighting "Free Farms for the Million" in western Canada, circa 1893
Lethbridge Viaduct
C.P.R. railway locomotive 2860
Strikers from unemployment relief camps climbing on boxcars as part of the On-to-Ottawa Trek, 1935
The Multimark logo was used from 1968 to 1987, when it fell out of favour. It was sometimes referred to as the 'Pac-Man' logo, after the popular 1980s video game of the same name.
CPR train step stool (Calgary station) c. 1950
Canadian Pacific A1e class 4-4-0 No. 29 on static display in front of the railway's headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, 2012
CP EMD SD90MAC locomotive in Thunder Bay, Ontario
GE ES44AC CP 8863 in Campbellville, Ontario
Soo Line 6022, an EMD SD60, pulls a train through Wisconsin Dells, WI, 20 June 2004.
An Angus Shops building converted into an SAQ liquor store
West Coast Express at Waterfront station in Vancouver
Funeral train of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Hope, British Columbia
Holiday Train in Montreal, November 2009
A crowd watches entertainers perform out of the CP Holiday Train
Canadian Pacific 2816 Empress at Sturtevant, Wisconsin, 1 September 2007
Advertisement for Canadian Pacific steamships to the Far East, 1936
Countess of Dufferin
CPR 2816 Locomotive
CPR 2317, a G-3-c 4-6-2 Pacific-type locomotive built at the CPR's Angus Shops in 1923
A CP passenger train heads east towards Calgary circa 1973
A westbound CP freight train pulls away from a passing siding after track clearance in Bolton, Ontario. It is headed by four GE AC4400CW locomotives (8627, 9615, 8629, and 8609).
CP 7028, an EMD SD70ACU, in Nashotah, Wisconsin

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 12500 mi of track in seven provinces of Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton.

East Face

Mount Columbia (Canada)

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Mountain located in the Winston Churchill Range of the Rocky Mountains.

Mountain located in the Winston Churchill Range of the Rocky Mountains.

East Face
Mount Columbia, from the summit of Snow Dome
From Mt. Columbia summit looking SW

It is the highest point in Alberta, Canada, and is second only to Mount Robson for height and topographical prominence in the Canadian Rockies.

Dinosaur Park Formation exposed along the Red Deer River in Dinosaur Provincial Park, southeastern Alberta, Canada.

Dinosaur Park Formation

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Dinosaur Park Formation exposed along the Red Deer River in Dinosaur Provincial Park, southeastern Alberta, Canada.
Restoration of the megafaunal dinosaurs of the Dinosaur Park Formation. From left to right: Chasmosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Styracosaurus, Scolosaurus, Prosaurolophus, Panoplosaurus, and a herd of Styracosaurus in the background

The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group (also known as the Judith River Group), a major geologic unit in southern Alberta.

Peace-Athabasca Delta with Lake Claire, west end of Lake Athabasca and mouths of Peace River (north) and Athabasca River(south)

Lake Claire (Alberta)

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Peace-Athabasca Delta with Lake Claire, west end of Lake Athabasca and mouths of Peace River (north) and Athabasca River(south)

Lake Claire is the largest lake which is entirely in Alberta, Canada.

The cliffs at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

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The cliffs at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Sign at the Entrance
Interpretive centre and museum

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a buffalo jump located where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains begin to rise from the prairie 18 km (11.2 mi) west of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada on highway 785.

Map of Palliser's Triangle

Palliser's Triangle

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Map of Palliser's Triangle

Palliser's Triangle, or the Palliser Triangle, is a semi-arid steppe occupying a substantial portion of the Western Canadian Prairie Provinces, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, within the Great Plains region.

Alberta Mountain forests

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The Alberta Mountain forests are a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of Western Canada, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system.

The Alberta Mountain forests are a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of Western Canada, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system.

This ecoregion covers the grand Rocky Mountains of Alberta including the eastern outliers of the Continental Ranges.

Elbow River

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Elbow River at Redwood Meadows
The Elbow River flooding the Elbow Park neighborhood in Calgary on 21 June 2013
Elbow Falls on the upper course
Elbow Lake
Upper course in the Elbow Pass
Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary
Confluence with Bow River

The Elbow River is a river in southern Alberta, Canada.

European countries entirely north of 49° N

49th parallel north

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Circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.

Circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.

European countries entirely north of 49° N
The Peace Arch border
49th parallel at Waterton Lake, showing the cleared strip of land along the U.S./Canada border
A typical boundary marker, one of many along the 49th parallel. This one divides Blaine, Washington from Surrey, British Columbia.
The 49th parallel north as a border between the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (to the north), and the U.S. states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota (to the south).
49th parallel north in Karlsruhe
49th parallel north in Karlsruhe
Monument marking the 49th parallel in Prešov

British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan