Alberta boomed once again during the 2003-2008 oil price spike.

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 ).

In Alberta and Saskatchewan, most ghost towns were once farming communities that have since died off due to the removal of the railway through the town or the bypass of a highway.

This site was the home of Conrad Kohrs, one of the famous " Cattle Kings " of Montana whose land holdings once stretched over a million acres ( 4, 000 km² ) of Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta, Canada.

Areas once belonging to Rupert's Land include all of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, northern parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as parts of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota.

CTV Two Alberta, which is licensed as an educational television station in Alberta, was once a public broadcaster, owned by the Alberta government, until the channel was sold to CHUM Limited in 1995.

By 1927, King complained that Stewart had " no grip " on the province of which he had once been Premier, and in 1930 he wrote " Organization in Alberta is terrible.

After only two seasons in Vancouver, the team once again packed up and was moved to Calgary, Alberta, where they were renamed Calgary Cowboys.

Other exhibits include a New France farmhouse ; a stretch of main street, typical of an early Ontario town ; an actual Ukrainian church that once stood in Alberta and was moved in its entirety to the museum ; and a long fishing boat that once operated off the coast of British Columbia.

A restored hansom cab once owned by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is on display at the Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston, Alberta, Canada.

The St George's Cross is an allusion to the arms of the Hudson's Bay Company, which once controlled what is now Alberta.

Also has a good relationship with Jo-Jo ( who once calls Daffney " Alberta Einsnork "), and Lil Seaweed, with whom she shares fashion tips and works as fellow trapeze artists in a circus once.

Come 1918, however, enforcement was once again extended to all four Western Provinces ( British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba ).

As Alberta treasurer he once said:

The process of finding qualified individuals begins with submissions from the public to the Council of the Alberta Order of Excellence, which consists of six individuals without prequalification appointed by the lieutenant governor and meets once yearly to make its selected recommendations to the viceroy each June ; posthumous nominations are not accepted.

He would run again in the 1993 Alberta general election once again for Social Credit finishing a strong second to Progressive Conservative Ty Lund.

No American source is known for the Eureka sand, which once blanketed a belt from California to Alberta.

She was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and was once a star player in the Alberta Liberal Party, but then took a position as environmental critic.

The Wesmen women hold the record with 7 national titles and were the first to win 6 consecutive titles between 1983 and 1988, this was a feat that was only later repeated once by the University of Alberta Pandas.

Similarly, there have been instances of homicidal neglect by confinement of infants or children such as in the affair of the Osaka child abandonment case or the affair of 2 abandoned children in Calgary, Alberta, Canada by their mother Rie Fujii.

During his first year in Alberta, a fire destroyed his home, and he and his wife spent the winter in an abandoned sod hut.

In 1960 this practice was abandoned and the trophy has since been competed for by the Junior A provincial champions of British Columbia of the BCLA, Ontario of the OLA and recently Alberta, of the RMLL the only provinces where organized lacrosse thrives.

Douglas while Thompson and the Social Credit Party of Alberta had largely abandoned the theory.

In 2001, Fujii abandoned her two infant children in their apartment in Calgary, Alberta.

Although the Social Credit parties of Alberta and British Columbia had largely abandoned their monetary policies by this time, Bullmore and Hutton continued to promote social credit during their time in parliament.

A similar construction can also be found at the Newark City Subway using the former bed of the Morris Canal, the similarly abandoned Rochester Subway, which used the bed of the Erie Canal, as well as Calgary's not yet used C-Train tunnels, underneath 8th Ave on Downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Originally Douglas wanted to stretch the road across the continental divide into Rupert's Land ( modern day Alberta ) but this plan was abandoned when Douglas retired in 1864.

However, an attempt to form a provincial party with clear, if unofficial links with the CA was made in Alberta, where the Alberta Alliance was formed in 2002.

* Maskepetoon ( Maski Pitonew-‘ Broken Arm ’, ‘ Crooked Arm ’, later called Peacemaker, Chief of a group of Rocky / Mountain Cree or Asini Wachi Wi Iniwak, born about 1807 in the Saskatchewan River region, because of his bravery he was called by the hostile Blackfoot Mon-e-ba-guh-now or Mani-kap-ina (‘ Young Man Chief ’), turned later to the Methodist missionaries, what him and his followers brought into conflict with the Catholic free Rocky Cree under the leadership of Pesew, moved to the reserve and was soon known as the Peacemaker, was killed in 1869 in a Blackfoot camp in Alberta by the enemy war chief Big Swan, in an attempt to make peace between the two peoples unarmed )

" An Act to Incorporate the University of Calgary " was presented for first reading as a Bill in the Alberta Legislature in an attempt to establish a private university in Calgary.

He returned to the public eye with a speech to the January 1935 UFA convention attacking Aberhart's plans to implement social credit in Alberta alone: " I would impress you that nothing but disillusionment, loss of hope and additional despair can follow any attempt to inaugurate a system of that kind, because the Province has no jurisdiction in these matters.

broadcaster Rafe Mair gained national fame and notoriety by arguing that the accord represented an attempt to permanently cement Canada's power base in the Quebec-Ontario bloc at the expense of fast-growing, wealthy provinces like Alberta and British Columbia that were challenging its authority.

For housing prices and bankruptcy rates, the experience of Alberta in particular is contrasted to the other regions of the country in an attempt to see whether the problems experienced due to the early 1980s recession were worse in Alberta perhaps due to the NEP. Long-term oil prices, 1861-2007 ( top line adjusted for inflation ).

An attempt in the mid-1990s at publishing a second Straight newspaper in Calgary, Alberta, the Calgary Straight, was brief.

Thwarted in their attempt to gain control of Alberta's private banks, Aberhart's government gained a foothold in the province's financial sector by creating the Alberta Treasury Branches in 1938.

As leader he led an attempt to merge several Alberta parties into the Alberta Political Alliance, which proved to be a short-lived coalition of Social Credit, the Western Canada Concept and the Heritage Party, in 1986 but neither the Alliance nor Social Credit were prepared to run candidates in the 1986 Alberta election.

On August 18, 1944 Major David Vivian Currie, commanding the Sherman tanks of C Squadron of the 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment ( The South Alberta Regiment ), with attached infantry from " B " and " C " companies of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and the Lincoln and Welland Regiment ( all of the Canadian 4th Armoured Division ), was ordered to move from Trun to capture and hold the village, and to attempt to link up with the American forces understood to be advancing towards the village from Chambois.

In 1936, the Alberta Social Credit Party-led government of the Province of Alberta, Canada, introduced prosperity certificates in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.

He would attempt another run against Lund in the 2001 Alberta general election this time being defeated finishing second in a landslide.

The Alberta First Party was the first real attempt to establish a provincial party to appeal to Reform Party of Canada supporters: the policies of the two parties were very similar.

The position of Premier Ralph Klein and the Conservative government had been to attempt to block same-sex marriages in Alberta should a court case require it or federal legislation pass it nationwide.

" Hancock subsequently stated that he believes the act to be constitutionally valid and that Alberta will attempt to uphold it.

Canada, which has seen regionalism play a role in its national politics, will see odd targeting patterns, where a province, Alberta for example, might be ignored by a party which usually does not do well there, the Liberals for example, while an Edmonton, a large city in Alberta, will see heavy targeting as the Liberals attempt to win at least some representation from that province.

Every decade, there is an attempt to hold the General Assembly in other parts of the Country: On June 5, 2005, First Presbyterian Church in Edmonton, was the location of the Opening of the 131st General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada ; the Reverend Jean Morris, of Calgary, Alberta was Moderator of the 131st General Assembly in 2005 ; her father, the late ( June 2008 ) Rev.