In 2006 Alberta's per capita GDP was higher than all US states, and one of the highest figures in the world.

The price of wheat, Alberta's major export, declined from a high of $ 1. 78 per bushel in the summer of 1929, to $ 1. 00 in the following March, to $ 0. 45 by the end of 1930.

In 1980 and 1981 Saskatchewan was a net per capita contributor to the federal government with their peak in 1981 at a mere $ 514 in comparison to Alberta's peak of $ 12, 735 that same year, both values being 2004 inflation adjusted dollars.

In December 1972, Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed called the billion cubic metres of Alberta natural gas the station was burning annually " an appalling waste of natural gas " at the price of about $ 0. 035 per cubic metre, and he charged that Ontario was getting a " cheap ride " at Alberta's expense.

It is Alberta's busiest highway with traffic volumes ranging between 27, 000 and 158, 000 vehicles per day depending on the location.

* Recipient of CPA Alberta's Christopher Reeve Award ( 2007 )

On June 27, 2007, he was named Alberta's Deputy Premier by newly-elected Premier Ed Stelmach.

In 2007 Old Strathcona was named Alberta's second Provincial Historic Area.

In 2001, the population of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor was 2. 15 million ( 72 % of Alberta's population ).

By 2009 with natural gas prices at a long-term low, Alberta's economy was in poor health compared to before, although still relatively better than many other comparable jurisdictions.

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

This turned out to be the first sign that Mulroney's grand coalition was coming apart at the seams ; the PCs had dominated Alberta's federal politics since the 1968 election.

Space Moose was a Canadian underground comic strip that appeared in the University of Alberta's student newspaper, The Gateway, between October 3, 1989 and 1999.

Later that month, the university was also named one of Alberta's Top Employers.

The power to withhold the Royal Assent was notably exercised by Alberta's Lieutenant Governor, John C. Bowen, in 1937, in respect of three bills passed under William Aberhart's Social Credit Government.

Social credit, the brainchild of British engineer C. H. Douglas, purported to bridge the gap between a society's production and its purchasing power ; Aberhart maintained that this gap was the source of Alberta's economic hardships.

He was closely involved in its most important activities, including efforts to better the lot of farmers living in Alberta's drought-ridden south, divest itself of money-losing railways, and obtain authority over natural resources from the federal government.

Before leaving Calgary, he was assured by Wood that the UFA would not win more than 20 of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta's 61 seats ; in fact, it won 38.

As attorney-general, Brownlee was Alberta's chief negotiator in these efforts, and met frequently with representatives of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

One way this manifested itself was an attempt to consolidate Alberta's thousands of school districts into a far smaller number of school divisions.

The Hunger March in Edmonton, December 1932As farms failed, many young people migrated from farms to Alberta's cities, where the situation was scarcely better.

In 1933, Brownlee was appointed to the Royal Commission on Banking and Currency as a representative of unorthodox economic views ( despite his conservative approach to Alberta's finances, outside of the province he was still viewed as a spokesperson of the progressive movement ).

The region, which was responsible for approximately 75 % of Alberta's wheat production, was in the midst of its fifth consecutive year of drought, and the farmers who had been responsible for putting the UFA into office were now demanding action.

During Greenfield's premiership, Alberta's major non-agricultural industry was coal mining, and the industry was not prospering.

After the 1921 federal election, Progressive Party of Canada leader Thomas Crerar was considering a merger of his party with the Liberal Party of Canada and asked Greenfield to join him as Alberta's representative in the federal cabinet upon completion of this merger.

In 1927, Greenfield was appointed Alberta's Agent General in London, England.

Even so, Greenfield's performance in the position was well regarded: his personality was better-suited for his duties there, which included the promotion of Alberta's burgeoning oil and gas industry, attracting English immigration to Alberta, and acting as a guide for Albertans visiting London.

Encouraged by this, UFA ran in 45 of Alberta's 61 ridings in the 1921 provincial election.

< http :// www. statcan. ca / english / research / 11-624-MIE / 11-624-MIE2006015. pdf ></ ref > During that same time the bankruptcy rate in Alberta's economy rose by 150 % after the NEP took effect < ref name =" statcan_a "> Statistics Canada.

Because some 80 % of Alberta's oil sands are too far below the surface for standard mining and drilling procedures to access, Husky plans to use Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage technology, by which bitumen is heated with steam to reduce its viscosity.

The 1940 Alberta election saw no CCFers elected despite winning 11 % of the vote ; Ronning stepped aside as leader in favour of Elmer Roper who won a 1942 by-election to become Alberta's first elected CCF MLA.

Alberta produced 81 % of Canada's crude oil in 1991, when Alberta's traditional oil fields peaked ; output is now steadily declining.

In the Canada 2001 Census, the population of the Calgary – Edmonton Corridor was 2, 149, 586, representing 72. 3 % of Alberta's population.

Alberta's OSUM Corp has combined proven underground mining technology with SAGD to enable higher recovery rates by running wells underground from within the oil sands deposit, thus also reducing energy requirements compared to traditional SAGD.

With more than 15, 000 employees, the university is Alberta's fourth-largest employer.

As reported in the 2001 census, the Chinese represented nearly four percent of Alberta's population and East Indians represented better than two percent.

Some provincial wings had more success than the federal party, such as the Socialist Party of Alberta's election of a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Peter Lougheed and the Progressive Conservatives presented the attraction of a modern, urban-based party, which was decidedly more liberal than the Social Credit government, and displaced the Liberals to become Alberta's official opposition and government-in-waiting.

Once elected, he was Calgary's primary supporter in the legislature's debate over Alberta's capital city, claiming that it was the new province's economic centre, that Alberta's status as a province was the result of a political movement that had begun in Calgary, and that it would be cheaper to build a legislature there than in Edmonton, site of the interim capital.

Less than two months before Alberta's formal creation, he wrote to his colleague in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Alexander Cameron Rutherford, that the possibilities " practically came to you and I, both of us weak enough God knows but we have the sense to see it.

The powers in relation to provincial legislation, which were vested in the Governor General of Canada ( and thus, effectively, the Canadian federal government ) rather than in the Sovereign, remained in use for much longer ; the last disallowance of a provincial law occurred in April 1943, in relation to Alberta's " An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Lands to any Enemy Aliens and Hutterites for the Duration of the War ", while the last reservation of a provincial law occurred in 1961.