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 ).

After the victory of the PdL in the 2008 general election, AN was merged into the PdL in early 2009.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders .< ref >

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

In early 2009 the company attracted further criticism for continuing plans to build the 162 in China while laying off large numbers of workers in the USA.

The Columbus program was finally cancelled in early July 2009.

In early June 2009 Cessna announced that it would lay-off an additional 700 salaried employees, bringing the total number of lay-offs to 7600 or more than half the company's workers.

Prospects for the 2009 season dimmed early when the Indians ended May with a record of 22-30.

The novel, which won the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and will be published in English under the title Azazeel, is set in 5th-century Egypt and Syria and deals with the early history of Christianity.

As of early 2009, the " HP ProBook " filled out HP's low end business lineup.

As of 2009, the project is in its early phases of planning, with developer and financier selection to be completed by year's end.

Companies that produced network equipment like Nortel Networks were irrevocably damaged by such over-extension ; Nortel declared bankruptcy in early 2009.

Devo announced in early 2009 that they would be performing at SXSW on March 20th, with a warmup show in Dallas on March 18th.

In the early 2009, Radio Masr was launched, broadcasting popular Egyptian songs, news & other programs.

until in early March 2009 congressional Democrats were moving to close down the program and remove children from their voucher-funded school places at the end of the 09 / 10 school year under the $ 410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 which, as of March 7 had passed the House and was pending in the Senate.

The master plan and its implementation strategy for 2025 were endorsed by the Afghan Cabinet in early 2009.

The third iteration in the series, with the working title EverQuest Next, is currently in the early stages of development as first reported in the 2009 10th Anniversary EverQuest Book.

From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.

A tribute band called the Brood Roosters (" bread toasters ") was active in the Netherlands until they split up in early 2009.

Stone tools discovered at Lézignan-la-Cèbe in 2009 indicate that early man was present in France at least 2 years ago.

* Russell, Stephen C., " Images of Egypt in early biblical literature " ( Walter de Gruyter, 2009 )

An amelioration of the economic and political conditions in the early years of the 21st century made Albania became a full member of NATO in 2009.

The first two or three days they went home early.

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.

Charles Plummer in the introduction and notes to his splendid edition of Bede voiced some early doubts concerning the `` elaborate superstructure '' they raised up over the slim foundations afforded by the traditional narratives of the conquest.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.

from the early evening lights of them which had first startled Izaak to look at her in an uncousinly way, they had faded to a near-absence of color which had, possibly from her constant looking at the water, something of the light of the sea in them.

These cut-down plants will bud and blossom in record time and will behave just as they did in early spring.

Home air conditioning has come a long way from the early days of overcooled theaters and the thermal shock they inflicted.

For me, these will belong more completely to their surroundings if they are conceived in this early stage, though I freely admit that I do not hesitate to add or eliminate figures on the full sheet when it serves my final purpose.

He had almost forgotten them, although they had played such an important part in his early dreams.

During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

Also, it's far too early in the day for corny lines like the bigger they come You've had your gassy lecture, let's get to work.

`` To prevent hoodlums from infiltrating the state as they did in the Republican administration in the early 1940s ''.

Rosburg had started early in the day, and by the time Palmer and Player were on the course -- separated, as they were destined to be for the rest of the weekend, by about half an hour -- they could see on the numerous scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg, who ended with a 73, was not having a good day.

Yet if he were not there, they would have missed him, as they would have missed the sounds of bees buzzing against the screen door in early June ; ;

Winter annuals are important ecologically, as they provide vegetative cover that prevents soil erosion during winter and early spring when no other cover exists and they provide fresh vegetation for animals and birds that feed on them.