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  2. Alberta Parks - Wikipedia

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    Alberta's system of provincial parks began with the striking of a committee on parks by then Premier J. E. Brownlee in 1929. This led to the passage of the Provincial Parks and Protected Areas Act in 1930 and the formation of the Provincial Board of Management to oversee the system. The first provincial parks were Aspen Beach Provincial Park ...

  3. List of provincial parks in Alberta - Wikipedia

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    Name Sub-region Established Image Coordinates Antelope Hill Provincial Park: Special Area No. 2: 2014-12-04 [2: Aspen Beach Provincial Park: Lacombe County

  4. Banff National Park - Wikipedia

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    Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 110–180 kilometres (68–112 mi) west of Calgary, Banff encompasses 6,641 square kilometres (2,564 sq mi) [3] of mountainous terrain, with many glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine ...

  5. Jasper National Park - Wikipedia

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    Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km 2 (4,200 sq mi). It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1984. Its location is north of Banff National Park and west of Edmonton.

  6. Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park - Wikipedia

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    Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park. Kakwa Wildland Park is a provincial park in the Rocky Mountain Foothills just east of the northern Canadian Rockies, in Alberta, Canada, [2] immediately east of the border with British Columbia at the 120th meridian west. The park is home to Alberta's tallest waterfall, the Kakwa Falls, which is 30 metres tall. [3]

  7. Peter Lougheed Provincial Park - Wikipedia

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    Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. /  50.69944°N 115.18778°W  / 50.69944; -115.18778. Peter Lougheed Provincial Park is in Kananaskis Country about 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Calgary, along the Kananaskis Trail in Alberta, Canada. This park is within Alberta's Rocky Mountains. The park was originally named Kananaskis Provincial Park ...

  8. Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park - Wikipedia

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    Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located about 100 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, or 44 kilometres (30 mi) east of the community of Milk River, and straddles the Milk River itself. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection ...

  9. Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park - Wikipedia

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    1931 — Cypress Hills Provincial Park was established in Saskatchewan. [5]1951 — Cypress Hills Provincial Park was established in Alberta. 1989 — On August 25, the governments of Alberta [6] and Saskatchewan [7] signed an agreement committing themselves to cooperation on ecosystem management, education, and park promotion.