Alberta

Wild Rose Country

       Alberta was first created as a province on September 1,1905.
Alberta is the farthest west of Canada's prairie  provinces and is divided into four major regions. The Rocky Mountains, the Foothills, the Shield and the Plains.
Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, 4th daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the Marquis of Lorne, Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. Their main products are the following;
Resource Extraction and Mining; oil, gas and coal. Agriculture; Beef cattle, feed grain, wheat, oilseed and barley. Manufacturing; Food products, oil and gas products (including Petrochemicals), and wood products. Their time zone is Mountain Standard time. Some of the Parks are; National; Banff, Jasper, Elk Island,  Watterton  Lakes, Wood Buffalo, Provincial; there are more than 60 provincial parks, including Cypress Hills, Dinosaur, Lesser Slave Lake, and Writing on Stone. Highest points; Mount Columbia-3747m, The Twins-3733m, Mount Alberta-3620m, Assiniboine-3618m. Lowest points; Slave River-152m, Lake Athabasca; 213m. Largest Lakes (Entirely within Alberta) Lake Claire-1436 square km., Lesser Slave Lake-1168 square km.

This is centre street in Drumheller  looking North,  Horse and carriage,  old cars, old Whitehouse Pool Hall (circa 1930's)

The Mines opened 1910 and 1911 and they could ship coal out by train.  Drumheller has the mines and badlands and dinosaur fossils from eons ago.

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