Both Reid and Brownlee concluded that a pool ought to be proceeded with cautiously, if at all, though this view was overruled when a later visit by Sapiro to Alberta generated sufficient enthusiasm that the government had little choice but to go along with the creation of the Alberta Wheat Pool.

He also played a leading role in the creation of the Alberta Wheat Pool.

The Alberta Wheat Pool later published a pamphlet entitled A History of Events Leading to Taxation of Cooperatives, which placed much of the blame on the UGG and Brownlee, accusing the latter of working with the hated private grain companies to " enforce taxation of the Wheat Pools ".

Brownlee tried to reach accommodations with the UGG's competitors to divide among them centres too small to support more than one elevator, and achieved some success, especially with the Alberta Wheat Pool.

Brownlee's impact is also felt through the organizations he participated in founding: the Alberta Wheat Pool remained an important player in Canadian agriculture until 1998, when it merged with Manitoba Pool Elevators to form Agricore Cooperative Ltd ..

Despite this, his time as Premier saw the eventual elimination of the provincial deficit, substantial progress in negotiating the transfer of natural resource rights from the federal government, and the creation of the Alberta Wheat Pool.

With government assistance, the Alberta Wheat Pool came into existence in time for the 1923 harvest.

* Manitoba Wheat Pool – merged with Alberta Wheat Pool in 1997.

* Alberta Wheat Pool – merged with Manitoba Wheat Pool in 1997.

Alberta Wheat Pool elevator Ltd. wooden cribbed elevator at the Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum in Scandia, Alberta, Canada

* Acadia Valley-Prairie Elevator Museum, former Alberta Wheat Pool converted into a tea house / museum.

* Alberta Central Railroad Museum-former Alberta Wheat Pool, second oldest standing grain elevator in Alberta, moved from Hobbema.

* Andrew-former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum.

* Esther-former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum.

* Meeting Creek, a refurbished Alberta Wheat Pool, Pacific Grain elevator and CN train station.

* 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.

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

In 1923, the Alberta Wheat Pool ( AWP ) was incorporated under the laws of Alberta.

Denied funding guaranteed to political parties, Speaker and Buck formed the Representative Party of Alberta, which served as an alternative right wing party as well as a home for former Socreds after the party collapsed.

Eleven Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) were acclaimed under Section 38 of the Election Act, which stipulated that any member of the 3rd Alberta Legislative Assembly, would be guaranteed re-election, with no contest held, if members joined for war time service.

The defining case was Mahe v. Alberta ( 1990 ), in which the Supreme Court of Canada declared that section 23 guaranteed a " sliding scale.

In Canada, provinces such as Prince Edward Island have unequal representation in Parliament ( in the Commons as well as the Senate ) relative to Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta, partly for historical reasons, partly because those electoral allotments are constitutionally guaranteed, and partly because governments have simply chosen to under-represent certain voters and over-represent others.

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

Because of its ( relatively ) economically isolated location, Alberta relies heavily on transportation links with the rest of the world.

The development of transportation in Alberta has been crucial to its historical economic development.

In the Province of Alberta, Section 57 of its Municipal Government Act ( MGA ) enables municipalities to perform their own censuses on any given year.

Calgary, Alberta is also known for its microclimates.

However, the Alberta Alliance copied the colours of the CA and many of its logos bear a striking resemblance to those of the federal party.

Monarchs and members of their family have also owned in a private capacity homes and land in Canada: King Edward VIII owned Bedingfield Ranch, near Pekisko, Alberta ; The Marquess of Lorne and Princess Louise owned a cottage on the Cascapédia River in Quebec ; and Princess Margaret owned Portland Island between its gifting to her by the Crown in Right of British Columbia in 1958 and her death in 2002, though she offered it back to the Crown on permanent loan in 1966 and the island and surrounding waters eventually became Princess Margaret Marine Park.

Owing to its geographical isolation and effective quarantine enforcement, Australia has so far remained unaffected by Dutch Elm Disease, as have the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada.

For 2004, the league expanded its Canadian operations into the province of Alberta and added the Calgary Vipers and Edmonton CrackerCats to the league.

American elms have been planted in North America beyond its natural range as far north as central Alberta, and south to Lake Worth, Florida.

Regulatory frameworks vary from province to province, and include direct government regulation ( such as Ontario's method of credentialing its practitioners with the title of A-EMCA, or Advanced Emergency Medical Care Assistant ) to professional self-regulating bodies, such as the Alberta College of Paramedics.

Within North America, there are northern pike populations in Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, Utah, Northern New Mexico and Arizona, Colorado, New York, Idaho, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec ( pike are rare in British Columbia and east coast provinces ), Alaska, the Ohio Valley, the upper Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Great Lakes Basin and surrounding states, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and parts of Oklahoma.

The first of its kind in North America, the Stampede Ranch operates a breeding program that produces some of the top rodeo stock in the world and supplies rodeos throughout southern Alberta, and as far south as Las Vegas.

The Canadian Tourism Commission placed the event in its Signature Experiences Collection, one of six such events or locations in Alberta.

In January 2011, the DKE chapter at the University of Alberta had its student group status suspended for five years due to hazing activity.

In the months leading up to successful detonation of the first atomic bomb, the Trinity Project, and delivery of the first airborne atomic weapon, the Alberta Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Director of Los Alamos Laboratory, and his technical advisor, Hartly Rowe, began looking for a new site convenient to Los Alamos for the continuation of weapons development especially its non-nuclear aspects.

Following the merger of BCTel with Telus of Alberta, GTE sold its interests in Québec Téléphone to Telus in August 2000, which renamed it Telus Québec on April 2, 2001.

After Telus made its final offer to the TWU, it informed the union of its intention to bring an end to the dispute by unilaterally implementing its April 2005, offer to employees in Alberta and British Columbia.

In 1967, Sun established its Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited facility in northern Alberta, Canada, to help unlock the estimated 300 billion barrels ( 48 km³ ) of recoverable oil in the Athabasca oil sands.

At the provincial level, privatized former Crown corporations include Alberta Government Telephones ( which merged with privately owned BC Tel to form Telus ), BCRIC, Manitoba Telecom Services, and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan which retained its name and has become the world's largest producer of potash.

During its time on the Canadian political scene, Reform had only one leader, Preston Manning, the son of former Alberta Premier Ernest Manning.

In 1989, following the sudden death of John Dahmer, PC MP for Beaver River in Alberta, the Reform Party gained its first MP when Deborah Grey won the resulting by-election.