Alberta

By: Adam Durnford

This is a map of a Alberta.

More fossils found in fossil park than

anywhere in the world.

Capital City

• The capital city of Alberta is Edmonton, but Calgary is a bigger

city.

Alberta was named after Princess Lousie Caroline.

Alberta fourth daughter of Queen Victoria .

Provincial fish is the bull trout it lives in the

Glacier waters.

West Edmonton Mall is home to an

exact replica of the Santa Maria .

Alberta’s mammal is the Rocky Mountain

Bighorn sheep.

Alberta has about 54,000 square

Kilometers of national parks.

The Highvale mine is the largest coal

mine in Canada.

Mount Columbia is 12,294 feet tall .

A tree in Jasper NationalPark is over 700 years old.

Alberta’s provincial bird is the great horned

owl.

Alberta is one of Canada’s biggest oil suppliers. Oil was first struck in Turner Valley in 1914.

Millions of bison once roamed Alberta.

• But now they are mainly found in

Super markets, but they can still be

found in Wood Buffalo National park.

Do you think Alberta is a prairieprovince ?

• It is one of the three prairie provinces.

That’s all for now, thanks for watching .