- Alberta is the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces.
- Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.
- Alberta is the fourth largest province of Canada.
- Alberta is home to over 3.5 million people.(April, 2007)
- Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta, is located just south of the centre of the province.
- Alberta ethnic backgrounds - British (44 percent), German, Ukrainian, French, Scandinavian, Dutch,
- and many other countries
- It is one of only two Canadian provinces that are landlocked (the other being Saskatchewan).
- Alberta became a province on September 1, 1905.
- Wheat and cattle are the traditional mainstays of this prairie province.
- There are five national parks in Alberta.
- The province is the world's second-largest natural gas exporter.
- Alberta is the only province in the country to produce sugar from sugar beets.
- The province has the largest oil sands resources in the world, with more than 300 billion barrels to be recovered.
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