Alberta

**Alberta** is a province in western Canada. It is bounded by the provinces of British Columbia on the west, Saskatchewan on the east, the US state of Montana on the south and the Northwest Territories to the North.

Alberta is the fourth largest Canadian province with an area of . Alberta has over five million (5,000,000) people living there, making it the fourth most populous province in Canada.

The capital of Alberta is Edmonton lying near the middle of Alberta. The city of Calgary, Alberta’s other major centre is located about 300 kilometres to the south of Edmonton.

## History

Canada became a country in 1867. It was much smaller than it is now, and did not include the parts of the country to the west. From 1670 to 1870, parts of Alberta were included in "Rupert's Land", land owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company in support of its trading monopoly over a vast area of Canada and parts of the United States. Northern part of Alberta was part of the what was then called "Northwestern Territories".

Alberta was made a province of Canada in 1905, at the same time as Saskatchewan.

The Aboriginal peoples of Canada are referred to as First Nations or by the Name of their Nation. Mixed (European/Aboriginal) People are called Metis.

## Weather

Alberta is very cold in the winter and has a lot of snow during the very cold season. There is a dry part of Alberta in the south.

## Work in Alberta

Alberta has a huge amount of oil (in the Athabasca Oil Sands) and natural gas.

There are also a lot of farms in Alberta. Farmers grow several different types of crops Farmers mainly grow wheat. There are also a lot of cows on Alberta farms, and Alberta beef is exported.

## Other websites

- Government of Alberta website
- Provincial Archives of Alberta website
- Travel Alberta
- Alberta Encyclopedia
- CBC Digital Archives—Striking Oil in Alberta
- CBC Digital Archives—Electing Dynasties: Alberta Campaigns 1935 to 2001
- CBC Digital Archives—Alberta @ 100

## Infobox (province or territory of canada)

- **name**: Alberta
- **settlement type**: Provinces and territories of Canada, Province
- **image flag**: Flag of Alberta.svg
- **image shield**: Coat of arms of Alberta.svg
- **motto**:
"Strong and free"
- **image map**: Alberta in Canada 2.svg
- **label map**: yes
- **official lang**: English
- **capital**: Edmonton
- **largest city**: Calgary
- **largest metro**: Calgary Region
- **premier**: Danielle Smith
- **premierparty**: United Conservative Party, UCP
- **government type**: Parliamentary system, Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- **viceroy**: Salma Lakhani
- **viceroytype**: Lieutenant governor
- **legislature**: Legislative Assembly of Alberta
- **former**: District of Alberta, District of Assiniboia, District of Athabasca, District of Saskatchewan
- **admittanceorder**: 10th, with Saskatchewan
- **admittancedate**: (split from Northwest Territories, NWT)
- **area rank**: 6th
- **area total km2**: 661849
- **area land km2**: 640082
- **area water km2**: 19532
- **percentwater**: 2.97
- **population demonym**: Albertan
- **population rank**: 4th
- **population total**: 4368370
- **population as of**: 2021 Canadian census, 2021
- **population est**: 5040871
- **pop est as of**: 2025 Q4
- **densityrank**: 6th
- **density km2**: 6.7
- **gdp year**: 2022
- **gdp rank**: 3rd
- **gdp per capita rank**: 3rd
- **hdi year**: 2021
- **hdi**: 0.955—<span style="color:#090">Very high</span>
- **hdi rank**: 1st
- **houseseats**: 34
- **senateseats**: 6
- **timezone1**: Mountain Time Zone, Mountain
- **utc offset1**: −7
- **timezone1 dst**: Mountain DST
- **utc offset1 dst**: −6
- **postalabbreviation**: AB
- **postalcodeprefix**: List of T postal codes of Canada, T
- **iso code**: CA-AB
- **website**: www.alberta.ca
- **flower**: Rosa acicularis, Wild rose
- **tree**: Pinus contorta, Lodgepole pine
- **bird**: Great horned owl#Subspecies, Great horned owl