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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Brittish Settlers
A short history of the British settlement of Alberta. Includes several audio and text vignettes of places in Alberta related to the British settlement.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Black Settlers Come to Alberta
A brief overview of the immigration and settlemnent of Black populations in Alberta.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Species at Risk
This easy to follow site profiles the many species at risk in the province of Alberta. A drop menu lists each, and makes each available for collecting facts and photos. Excellent for a student researcher.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Bruce Nodwell
Learn about Bruce Nodwell's "Nodwell 110", which is a tracked vehicle that can travel through the squishy muskeg in Alberta.
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Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society: Riparian Areas [Pdf]
The Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society, also known as 'Cows and Fish', has produced this colourful pamphlet to teach about riparian areas, what they are, how they attract wildlife, their importance for fish, and how to assess...
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Alberta's Extant Grain Elevators
A map containing the location of nine of Alberta's Grain Elevators points to information about each of these structures from their construction to their usage to their current status.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Charles Sherwood Noble
One of Alberta's greater known inventors, Charles Noble, is explored through his biography and his impact on soil erosion, the invention of the "Noble Blade" and the history of Nobleford, a community in southern Alberta named for him.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Geology
The geology of Alberta is profiled on this site. Drop menus reveal sub-topics ..geological time scale, rock formations in Alberta, and so forth.Graphics and maps are included.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: The Inventors
Who are some of Alberta's significant persons in the area of inventions? This site by the Heritage Community Foundation provides categories, such as Agriculture, Transportation, Health, Home, and Sports, in which famous Alberta inventors...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: St. Vincent and St. Paul
The history of Franco-Alberta is explored on this site through information about the fur trade, arrival of the missionaries, settlement, schooling, arts and culture and much more.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: St. Vincent
Learn about the history of this Franco-Alberta community through readings, a timeline and the virtual exhibit.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Metis in Alberta
Explore the Metis Peoples in Alberta--their beginnings, the people and their communities and their culture and lifestyle. Listen to content, view pictures, read text and follow the timeline of this Aboriginal peoples of Alberta.
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White Pine Pictures: The Fullness of Time: Ukrainian Stories From Alberta
This site describes the making of a television documentary about Ukrainian immigrants to Alberta. The stories of the immigrants and the obstacles they faced are described here.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Hutterite Communities in Alberta
A fascinating overview of the Hutterites. Discusses beliefs, history, with a focus on the Hutterites in Alberta.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Chinese Settlement
A fascinating, authoritative look at the settlement of Alberta by Chinese people. Includes a good collection of links.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Japanese Settlers
A brief overview of Japanese settlement in Alberta. Includes several interesting audio clips.
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Alberta Riparian Habitat Management: Protecting Shorelines & Streambanks [Pdf]
Protecting Shorelines & Streambanks - Naturally explains the critical importance of healthy shorelines for preventing soil erosion and filtering out pollutants. It looks specifically at riparian areas, such as those in Alberta, which...
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Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society: Lakes and Wetlands [Pdf]
Alberta has different kinds of wetlands, which each offer benefits to the surrounding environments, such as good water quality, increased biodiversity and lake shoreline stabilization, for example. This fact sheet explains their importance.
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Alberta Environment: Focus on Air Quality [Pdf]
This article outlines some of the threats to Alberta's air quality, what the provincial government is doing to control air quality, and what we as individuals can do to help.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Max Bradshaw
Learn about Max Bradshaw and his creation of the "Bale Booster and Stacker" that was a part of the mechanization of farming in Alberta.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Metis in Alberta: The Beginnings
This is an informative encyclopedia entry detailing the Metis people in Alberta. To the right, there are links to further sub-entries on the Fur Trade Era, Origins and Identity, Metis of the Northwest, Political Life and Metis...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Northwind Dreaming
A website about the oldest community in Alberta, Fort Chipewyan, which currently is made up of people reflecting the original founder's ethnic background- Cree Indians, French and Scots Metis and non-Natives. This web page is based on an...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Earl and Harold Kirchner
Learn about the "Kirchner Haysweep", invented by Earl and Harold Kirchner who were farmers near Tilley, Alberta in the 1930s.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Dave Hygaard
Learn about the 'Arctic Chiller Water Bottle'--an invention from a Sherwood Park, Alberta, sandwich maker!
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