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.

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Jasper, Alberta

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Jasper railway station, seen from Connaught Drive
Two Goldleaf double-deck panorama cars of the Rocky Mountaineer in the station of Jasper
The Jasper Welcome Sign at the north entrance to town - 2022.

Jasper is a specialized municipality and townsite in western Alberta within the Canadian Rockies.

Chipewyan

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The Chipewyan (, also called Denésoliné or Dënesųłı̨né or Dënë Sųłınë́, meaning "the original/real people") are a Dene Indigenous Canadian people of the Athabaskan language family, whose ancestors are identified with the Taltheilei Shale archaeological tradition.

The Chipewyan (, also called Denésoliné or Dënesųłı̨né or Dënë Sųłınë́, meaning "the original/real people") are a Dene Indigenous Canadian people of the Athabaskan language family, whose ancestors are identified with the Taltheilei Shale archaeological tradition.

Album with photos of Chipewyan woman and boy
Denesuline children by canoe in La Loche
Historical distribution of the Denesuline language
Sign in Denesuline at La Loche Airport

Chipewyan peoples live in the region spanning the western Canadian Shield to the Northwest Territories, including northern parts of the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Canmore, Alberta

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The Big Head sculpture in Canmore, located on main street north side of the bridge over Policeman's Creek
View across the Valley taken from The Nordic Centre

Canmore is a town in Alberta, Canada, located approximately 81 km west of Calgary near the southeast boundary of Banff National Park.

A sign enforcing social distancing in front of the Alberta Legislature Building.

COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta

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Part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 , an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

Part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 , an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

A sign enforcing social distancing in front of the Alberta Legislature Building.

The province of Alberta has the third-most cases of COVID-19 in Canada, behind only Ontario and Quebec.

Louisiana (New France)

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Administrative district of New France.

Administrative district of New France.

New France before the Treaty of Utrecht
The Mississippi River basin and tributaries
New France before the Treaty of Utrecht
Lower Louisiana in the white area – the pink represents Canada – part of Canada below the great lakes was ceded to Louisiana in 1717. Brown represents British colonies (map before 1736)
A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under the names of Louisiana in 1720 by Herman Moll
A map of Louisiana by Christoph Weigel, published in 1734
Jacques Marquette
Map of New France (blue color) in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763), that was part of the Seven Years' War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Map of North America during the 17th century
Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans
The Code Noir, which was applied in Louisiana during the 18th century and, later, with some modifications, in the West Indies
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, governor of Louisiana in the early 17th century
French unmarried women transported to Louisiana as brides for the colonists
A coureur des bois
Eugène Delacroix, Les Natchez, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1832–1835. The Natchez tribe were the fiercest opponents of the French in Louisiana.
Profile of an American trapper (Missouri)
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The Louisiana Purchase territory
Map of current U.S. states that were completely or mostly inside the borders of post-1764 colonial Louisiana at the time of Louisiana Purchase

This section lies above the 49th parallel north in a part of present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Dinosaurs of the Oldman Formation

Oldman Formation

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Dinosaurs of the Oldman Formation

The Oldman Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) age that underlies much of southern Alberta, Canada.

Alberta Act

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The Alberta Act (Loi sur l'Alberta), effective September 1, 1905, was the act of the Parliament of Canada that created the province of Alberta.

Wapiti Formation

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The Wapiti Formation is a geological formation of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in northwestern Alberta, and northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

Horseshoe Canyon Formation at Horsethief Canyon, near Drumheller. The dark bands are coal seams.

Horseshoe Canyon Formation

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Horseshoe Canyon Formation at Horsethief Canyon, near Drumheller. The dark bands are coal seams.
Contact (red arrow) between the underlying marine shales of the Bearpaw Formation and the coastal Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Coal beds (black bands) are common in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation and were formed in coastal swamps.

The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is a stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southwestern Alberta.

Pinus contorta

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Common tree in western North America.

Common tree in western North America.

The needles are 4 to 8 cm long in fascicles of two, alternate on twigs. The female cones are 3 to 7 cm long with sharp-tipped scales.
A cluster of pollen-bearing male cones at Mount San Antonio
Pinus contorta subsp. murrayana near summit of Pywiack Dome in Yosemite National Park.

In Alberta above 2000 m, 1 to 5 needles occur per short shoot.