Becoming a Province
This was named the Capital City of Alberta in 1905.
What is Edmonton?
Logging towns and sawmills popped up all over this region as Alberta needed more lumber for homes and the railway.
What is the Boreal Forest?
The most popular park in Canada has sites like Lake Louise and Moraine Lake.
What is Banff National Park?
Located in Banff National Park, this lake is famous for its turquoise coloured water.
What is Lake Louise?
The place where an animal or plant makes its home in nature.
What is a habitat?
This would have been the name of Alberta if Frederick Haultain had his way.
What is Buffalo?
A trading post was built in Edmonton because the number of people heading to this area in search of gold.
What is the Yukon?
This largest park in the Rocky Mountains contains the Athabasca Glacier.
What is Jasper National Park?
This beautiful lake is surrounded by 10 peaks, each more than 3000 metres high and you can hear the thunder from the falling glaciers.
What is Moraine Lake?
A long period of time with far less snow or rain than usual.
What is a drought?
These were the 3 main resources Alberta wanted to take back control of.
What are wheat, timber and coal?
This city was the centre of Alberta's coal mining.
What is Lethbridge?
This park just east of Edmonton contains a 150 metre long floating sidewalk on Astotin Lake.
What is Elk Island National Park?
This 230 kilometre stretch of highway is one of the most scenic drives in Canada, which leads past glaciers, mountains and waterfalls.
What is the Icefields Parkway?
Towns and cities are called this. It's opposite to the spread out rural areas.
What is urban?
He was the Prime Minister during 1905 when Alberta became a province.
Who is Wilfred Laurier?
This nickname was given to the Prairies during the 1900's.
What is the Breadbasket of Canada?
This southern most park shares its borders with the United States where Canadians, Americans and the Blackfoot work together to protect the land and wildlife.
What is Waterton Lakes National Park?
These dessert like conditions and stones cut by wind and water attract many visitors to the Drumheller area each year.
What are the Hoodoos (Badlands)?
Areas of land set aside to protect special features such as plants, animals and landforms.
What are protected areas (parks)?
This name for a group of leaders that represent the people was set up in Regina to take care of what was happening in the Northwest Territories at the time.
What is a legislative assembly?
In the late 1920's the prairies were renamed this after they were hit with a massive drought.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This northern most park is the second largest park in the world and contains the salt flats.
What is Wood Buffalo National Park?
This is the largest glacier in Jasper, providing many of the nearby lakes with their icy cold water.
What is the Athabasca Glaciers?
Traveling to see and enjoy places away from home is known as this. Many communities depend on this for their economy.
What is tourism?