Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.

The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is exposed in its Type locality ( geology ) | type section at Horseshoe Canyon ( Alberta ) | Horseshoe Canyon, Alberta

Alberta has a small internal market and is relatively distant from major world markets, despite good transportation links to the rest of Canada and to the United States to the south.

Alberta is located in the northwestern quadrant of North America, in a region of low population density called the Interior Plains ( and referred to by one author as North America's " Empty Quarter ").

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

Agriculture on a large scale is practiced further north in Alberta that anywhere else in North America, extending into the Peace River country above the 55th parallel north.

Generally, however, northern Alberta ( and areas along the Alberta Rockies ) is forested land and logging is more important than agriculture there.

As well Alberta is connected to the TasnCanada pipeline system ( natural gas ) to Eastern Canada, the Northern Border Pipeline ( gas ), Alliance Pipeline ( gas ) and Enbridge Pipeline System ( oil ) to the Eastern United States, the Gas Transmission Northwest and Northwest Pipeline ( gas ) to the Western United States, and the McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station ( electric power ) to Saskatchewan.

British Columbia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by the U. S. state of Alaska on the northwest as well as parts of the west, on the north by the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, on the east by the province of Alberta, and on the south by the U. S. states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

As an example, in British Columbia the forestry industry is of great importance, while the oil and gas industry is important in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The World's largest MSW co-composter is the Edmonton Composting Facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which turns 220, 000 tonnes of residential solid waste and 22, 500 dry tonnes of biosolids per year into 80, 000 tonnes of compost.

The word maritime is an adjective that simply means " of the sea ", thus any land associated with the sea can be considered a maritime state or province ( e. g. All the provinces of Canada except Alberta and Saskatchewan border water ).

The CUC is divided into four regions: " BC " ( British Columbia ), " Western " ( Alberta to Thunder Bay ), " Central " ( between Thunder Bay and Kingston ), and " Eastern " ( Kingston, Ottawa and everything east of that ).

In his published journals, Thompson recorded seeing large footprints near what is now Jasper, Alberta, in 1811.

A large oil portrait of Wray by Alberta artist Neil Boyle is on display in the Empress Theatre in Fort Macleod, Alberta.

Heinz Canada's head office is in North York, Ontario and it also has operations in St. Marys, Ontario ; Calgary, Alberta ; and Montreal, Quebec.

After several decades of intensive political lobbying by midwives and consumers, fully integrated, regulated and publicly funded midwifery is now part of the health system in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, and in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Thompson spent the next few seasons trading based in Fort George ( now in Alberta ), and during this time led several expeditions into the Rocky Mountains.

Owing to the high sulfur content of the Athabasca Oil Sands, stockpiles of elemental sulfur from this process now exist throughout Alberta, Canada.

* Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, now the world standard.

This area now consists of the provinces of Manitoba ( admitted after negotiation between Canada and a Métis provisional government in 1870 ), Saskatchewan, and Alberta ( both created in 1905 ), as well as the Northwest Territories, the Yukon Territory ( created 1898, following the start of the Klondike Gold Rush ), and Nunavut ( created in 1999 ).

On April 2, 1885, near Frog Lake, Saskatchewan ( now in Alberta ) a Cree raiding party led by Wandering Spirit attacked a small town.

From this vast swath of territory were created three provinces ( Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta ) and two territories ( Yukon Territory and North-West Territories, now Yukon and Northwest Territories ), and two extensions each to Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba.

** Lakeland County, now named Lac La Biche County, Alberta

The independent and very successful warriors had a territory that stretched from the North Saskatchewan River ( called Ponoká ' sisaahta ) along what is now Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada, to the Yellowstone River ( called Otahkoiitahtayi ) of Montana in the United States, and from the Rocky Mountains ( called Miistakistsi ) and along the South Saskatchewan River to the present Alberta-Saskatchewan border ( called Kaayihkimikoyi ), east past the Cypress Hills.

Anthony Henday of the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) met a large Niitsitapi group in 1754 in what is now Alberta.

* The Empty Quarter — most of Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado from Denver west, as well as the eastern portions of Oregon, California, Washington, all of Alberta and Northern Canada ( including what is now Nunavut ), northern Arizona, parts of New Mexico ( mainly the area controlled by the Navajo Nation ), and British Columbia east of the Coast Ranges.

Later participants were Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Alberta and Saskatchewan ( created as provinces from the Northwest Territories in 1905 ), and finally Newfoundland ( now Newfoundland and Labrador ) in 1949.

Crerar introduced Brownlee to Ernest Charles Drury, the newly-elected United Farmers of Ontario Premier of Ontario, and arranged for a meeting between Brownlee and Charles Stewart, by now Alberta Premier.

While negotiations occasionally seemed promising, King was unwilling to fully commit to the transfer, possibly because Charles Stewart, now King's Alberta lieutenant, and John R. Boyle, leader of the provincial Liberals, were sworn enemies of the UFA.

The University of Alberta library system received a tremendous boost with the opening of the Rutherford Library in May 1951, and now has one of the largest research libraries systems in North America.

The institute also founded Assumption College, now Assumption University, federated with the University of Windsor, St. Thomas More College, federated with the University of Saskatchewan, and St. Joseph's College, affliliated with the University of Alberta.

* Leduc-former Alberta wheat Pool saved from demolition now a museum.

* Rowley-a United Grain Growers, and Alberta Wheat Pool elevators saved from demolition by locals and now fully restored.

* Scandia-Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum, 1920s Alberta Wheat Pool and stockyard now a museum.

* Spruce Grove-Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum, former Alberta Wheat Pool, now used as a Farmers Market.

* St. Albert-St. Albert Grain Elevator Park, a 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators now restored as a historic park.

* Stettler-1920 Parrish and Heimbecker grain elevator / feed mill and coal shed, last to stand in Alberta now protected and restored as a museum.

He served as President of the University of Alberta Young Progressive Conservatives, and eventually served as national president for the young PCs group.

His father was the youngest of the famed Diamond Brothers of the North-West Mounted Police ( NWMP ), who served in the Red Deer District of Alberta in the 1880s.

Ralph Phillip Klein AOE, ( born November 1, 1942 ) served as the 12th Premier of Alberta.

He served as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.

He retired from politics in 1979 and served on the board of directors of Husky Oil, an Alberta oil and gas exploration company that had holdings in Saskatchewan.

He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985 as a Progressive Conservative.

He also served as president of the Students ' Union in 1951 – 1952 and was editor of the sports section for the Gateway, the University of Alberta student newspaper.

Richard Gavin " Dick " Reid ( 17 January 1879 – 17 October 1980 ) was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935.

Herbert W. Greenfield ( November 25, 1869August 23, 1949 ) was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925.

He also served as Vice President of the Alberta Educational Association, as President of the Westlock Agricultural Society, and as co-founder and President of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts.

Charles Stewart, PC ( August 26, 1868 – December 6, 1946 ) was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921.

He served as Minister of Public Works and Minister of Municipal Affairs — the first person to hold the latter position in Alberta — in the government of Arthur Sifton.

In 1926 Stewart served as an emissary from King to recruit Saskatchewan Premier Charles Avery Dunning to the federal cabinet ; the mission fulfilled, King kept Stewart in cabinet but wrote in his diary that all matters pertaining to Alberta were to be " left to Dunning to do as he thinks best ".

Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC ( October 26, 1858 – January 21, 1921 ) was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter.

He served as chief justice of the Northwest Territories until September 16, 1907, when the Supreme Court of Alberta was established, whereupon he headed this new court, sitting in Calgary as the first Chief Justice of Alberta.

Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE ( born August 30, 1933 ) is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992.

Alexander Cameron Rutherford ( February 2, 1857 – June 11, 1941 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910.

Rutherford served in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories until Alberta became a province in 1905.

Rutherford served on the Loan Advisory Committee of the Soldier Settlement Board after the war, was President of the Alberta Historical Society ( which had been created by his government ) from 1919 until his death, was elected President of the McGill University Alumni Association of Alberta in 1922, and spent the last years of his life as honorary president of the Canadian Authors Association.

She has served on the executive board of the Writers ' Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada.