Facts About Calgary Calgary is a city in the western Canadian province of Alberta. Calgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie. The Estimated Population of Calgary is 1,581,000, as of 2021. Calgary has a world-class […]
Facts About Edmonton Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta’s central region. The Estimated Population of Edmonton is 1,491,000, as of 2021. Edmonton hosts a year-round slate of festivals reflected […]
Facts About Lethbridge Lethbridge is the commercial, financial, transportation and industrial centre of southern Alberta. The city of Lethbridge is located at 49.7° north latitude and 112.833° west longitude and covers an area of 127.19 square kilometres. The city is divided by the Oldman River; its valley has been turned into one of the largest […]
Facts About Okotoks The town’s name is derived from “ohkotok”, the Blackfoot First Nation word for “rock”. The name may refer to Big Rock, the largest glacial erratic in the Foothills Erratics Train. First Nations people led a nomadic existence in the Okotoks area for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the Europeans. […]
Facts About Spruce Grove Spruce Grove is a city, west of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. The city is adjacent to the Town of Stony Plain and is surrounded by Parkland County. Spruce Grove was incorporated as a village on March 14, 1907, but it was dissolved on August 30, 1916. Spruce Grove was re-incorporated as […]
Facts About Fort McMurray Fort McMurray is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. Fort McMurray is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significant role in the development of the national petroleum industry. The […]
Facts About Airdrie Airdrie is a city in Alberta, Canada within the Calgary Region. Airdrie is located north of Calgary within the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor at the intersection of Queen Elizabeth II Highway 2 and Highway 567. The City of Airdrie is part of the Calgary census metropolitan area and a member municipality of the Calgary […]
Facts About Cochrane Cochrane was established in 1881 as the Cochrane Ranche, after Matthew Henry Cochrane, a local rancher. Cochrane is a town in the Canadian province of Alberta. Cochrane became a village in 1903. Cochrane is situated at the base of Big Hill in the Bow River Valley. Cochrane houses attractions such as Cochrane […]
Facts About Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. Historically, Medicine Hat has been known for its large natural gas fields, being immortalized by Rudyard Kipling as having “all hell for a basement”. Medicine is known as “The Gas City”. The name “Medicine […]
Facts About Leduc Leduc is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. Leduc was established in 1899, when Robert Telford, a settler, bought land near a lake that would later bear his name. The municipality of Leduc was officially incorporated as the Village of Leduc on December 15, 1899, attained town status on December […]