For most of its history the Alberta Party was a right-wing organization, until the rise of the Wildrose Alliance as Alberta's main right-wing alternative to the governing Progressive Conservatives attracted away the Alberta Party's more conservative members.

After the rise of the Wildrose Alliance as Alberta's main right-wing alternative to the governing Progressive Conservatives, the right-wing members of the Alberta Party left to join the Wildrose Alliance.

The Rockies serve as not only a geographical barrier but a political one as well: Vancouver is a haven for the political left in Canada, strongly supportive of both the Liberal and New Democratic political parties, while Calgary has been a bastion of right-wing politics since the province of Alberta's creation and is a stronghold for the Conservative Party.

His name was attached to many institutions both during his life and after: Rutherford Elementary School in Edmonton was established in 1911 and the University of Alberta's Rutherford Library in 1951.

However, Alberta's last Pacific Coast League baseball team, the Edmonton Trappers, left the province ( and Canada ) after the 2004 season.

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In 1929, after years of negotiating, Brownlee gained control over Alberta's natural resources.

ATB was created by the first Social Credit ministry under William Aberhart on September 29, 1938, after earlier attempts to place Alberta's banks under the provincial government's control were thwarted by the federal government.

The high point of Brownlee's administration came after long negotiations with the federal government concerning Alberta's natural resources.

Alberta's first known outbreak occurred in 1940, infecting of forest in Banff.

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's economy is one of the strongest in Canada, supported by the petroleum industry and, to a lesser extent, agriculture and technology.

Alberta's economy is a highly developed one in which most people work in services such as healthcare, government, or retail.

The University of Calgary's Child Development Centre is Alberta's first building designed and constructed to LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ) standards, the North American benchmark for environmentally high-performance buildings.

The Banff Centre is part of Alberta's post-secondary educational system, and offers programs in the performing and fine arts, and leadership training.

( Note that Alberta's use of the notwithstanding clause is of no force or effect, since the definition of marriage is federal not provincial jurisdiction.

They suggest that it is not a reflection of Alberta's frontier history, but represents a mythical impression of western cowboy culture created by 19th-century wild west shows and exploited for profit.

Banff, Alberta's Sunshine Village ends its lengthy ski season on Victoria Day, and, likewise, it is during this long weekend that many summer businesses such as parks, outdoor restaurants, bicycle rentals, city tour operators, etc.

Despite this, he is highly regarded by historians: Foster calls him " Alberta's greatest premier ", citing in particular his successful negotiations for the transfer of resource rights to the provincial government as the cause of Alberta's subsequent prosperity.

The signing ceremony for the resource transfer agreement ; Stewart is seated second from left. As a cabinet minister, Stewart aggressively marketed Canada's coal both domestically and internationally, for which he was honoured by Alberta's coal producers at a banquet and later awarded the Randolph Bruce Gold Medal in Science by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

He also feuded with then-Premier Brownlee over development in Alberta's national parks ( Stewart favouring large-scale private development and Brownlee opposing it ), causing King to record in his diary " Brownlee strikes me as ... being superior to Mr. Stewart, who is handicapped in his dislike of.

There is general agreement that Rutherford's greatest legacy, and the one in which he took the most pride, lies in his contributions to Alberta's education.

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

The team name is derived from the roughnecks who work drilling rigs in Alberta's oil and gas industry.

There is no doubt that it has become Alberta's premier international gateway and the destination of choice for passengers, airlines and cargo operations.

It is located in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately west of Calgary and east of Lake Louise.

In general, Alberta's climate is dry, due to the rain shadow effect of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast Ranges to the west, and continental, due to its distance from any large body of water.

Edmonton is Alberta's number one tourism destination in several key categories and Alberta's top-ranked metropolitan destination in other categories.

* Rosebud, located one hour east of Calgary, is home to Rosebud Theatre, Alberta's only rural professional theatre.

According to Alberta's Municipal Government Act, a town is eligible for city status when it reaches 10, 000 residents.

It is located in Yellowhead County, northeast of Jasper and about west of Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of Yellowhead and Bighorn Highway, in the Athabasca River valley.

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.

A comparison of the development of Alberta's less oil and gas-endowed neighbours, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, reveals the role petroleum has played.

Alberta's early years were optimistic ones, which manifested itself in a pronounced enthusiasm for the construction of new railway lines.

In 1930 Brownlee secured Alberta's long-sought control over its natural resources from the federal government, and he appointed Reid Alberta's first Minister of Lands and Mines on 10 October 1930.

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 ).

His distaste for Aberhart's social credit government — and in particular its contention, which Brownlee viewed as unfair, that the UFA had left the government bankrupt — did not prevent him from advising it behind the scenes on a number of issues, most notably Alberta's submission to the Rowell-Sirois Commission, The Case for Alberta.

In this capacity he signed, on behalf of the federal government, an agreement that transferred control of Alberta's natural resources from Ottawa to the provincial government — a concession he had been criticized for being unable to negotiate as Premier.

Alexander Grant MacKay criticized his failure to take advantage of the recent conference of premiers to press for the transfer of rights over Alberta's natural resources from the federal to the provincial government ( Sifton had made this a priority during the pre-war years, but had largely ceased his advocacy on the breakout of hostilities ), and James Gray Turgeon attacked the government's policy of levying taxes for the support of soldiers ' dependants on the grounds that he considered it a federal responsibility.

In 1910, however, Liberal MLA Alwyn Bramley-Moore ( who was a staunch provincial rights advocate and who many years later would be called " Alberta's first separatist " by the Edmonton Journal ) moved a resolution calling on the Sifton government to " take such steps as may be deemed necessary to acquire the control of all such natural resources as are of purely local concern ".

While Premier, Alexander Rutherford, always a stalwart ally of the University of Alberta, approved a plan to locate Alberta's first agricultural college on the university's campus, in Rutherford's home town of Strathcona.

As Mount Royal College historian Patricia Roome concluded her chapter on Rutherford in a book about Alberta's first twelve premiers, " Rutherford's educational contribution remains his ultimate legacy to Albertans.

He has received many accolades for his philanthropic work and personal accomplishments including the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for community service, a spot on Alberta Venture magazine's list of Alberta's 50 Most Influential People, and the dedication of Rodney Ridge in his hometown, where he holds a spot on the sports hall of fame.

David W. Schindler, a limnologist from the University of Alberta, co-authored a study on Alberta's oil sands ' contribution of aromatic polycyclic compounds, some of which are known carcinogens, to the Athabasca River and its tributaries.

Because all of the premiers had agreed to the deal, it could conceivably have passed without a referendum — however, Robert Bourassa's promise of a referendum in 1992 on a constitutional agreement or sovereignty, as well as British Columbia and Alberta's referendum legislation, meant one would be held in some provinces regardless.

Given that the program was cancelled in 1986, the NEP was active for five years which are amongst the most expensive for oil prices on record and the NEP prevented Alberta's economy from fully realising those prices. Fluctuations: Oil Prices & Alberta Per Capita Federal Contributions 1975-1981

In the 1971 election, the Progressive Conservatives campaigned on a simple theme -- NOW !-- symbolizing their goal of increasing Alberta's clout in Canada.

Justice Minister Alison Redford won the following leadership contest on October 2, 2011, and was sworn in as Premier on October 7, 2011, becoming Alberta's first female Premier.

The Premier of the province deals with specific areas relating to Alberta and Alberta's relation on the national scene.

: The supporters sit on either side of the shield and consist of a golden lion on the left ( representing power ) and a pronghorn on the right ( representing Alberta's natural resources ).

Founded in 1906, it is located on Highway 16A approximately east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city.