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Notable health, education, research, and resources facilities in Alberta, all of which are located within Calgary or Edmonton. Health centres in Calgary include: Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary is the largest hospital in Alberta.
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. [2] Located in Western Canada, the province has an area of 661,190 km 2 (255,290 sq mi) and is bounded to the south by the United States state of Montana along 49° north for 298 km (185 mi); to the east at 110° west by the province of Saskatchewan for 1,223 km (760 mi); and at 60° north the Northwest Territories for 644 km ...
Alberta and its neighbour, Saskatchewan, were established as provinces on September 1, 1905. [2] Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south.
The Alberta Railway Museum [261] is located in the rural northeast portion of the city. It contains a variety of locomotives and railroad cars from different periods, and includes a working steam locomotive. Since most of its exhibits are outdoors, it is only open between Victoria Day and Labour Day
Alberta has 19 cities that had a cumulative population of 3,023,641 (not including the population in the Saskatchewan portion of Lloydminster) and an average population of 159,139 in the 2021 Census of Population. [2] Alberta's largest and smallest cities are Calgary and Wetaskiwin, with populations of 1,306,784 and 12,594, respectively. [2]
Red Deer, Alberta's third largest city, is located at the midpoint between Calgary and Edmonton. Lethbridge is Alberta's fourth largest city. Airdrie , Alberta's fifth largest city, is located adjacent to Calgary.
Boreal Shield, located mostly south of Hudson Bay and James Bay from northeastern Alberta to southeastern Labrador Southern Boreal Shield , a transitional region in Central Ontario and the west-central part of Quebec that separates the boreal forests of the north from the mostly mixed-leaf forests further south
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada.It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. [2]