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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 97. Chapters: Athabasca oil sands, History of the petroleum industry in Canada, John Brownlee sex scandal, Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt, National Energy Program, Alberta Eugenics Board, United Farmers of Alberta, Accurate News and Information Act, Bibliography of Alberta history, Bankers' Toadies incident, Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta, Social Credit Board, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan, Education in Alberta, Mayerthorpe incident, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Oil reserves in Canada, Steamboats of the Peace River, Treaty 8, Bedaux Expedition, Social Credit Party of Alberta leadership election, 1968, Battle of Frenchman's Butte, Alberta Wheat Pool, John Glenn, The Famous Five, Provincial Historic Sites of Alberta, Treaty 6, Rundle's Mission, Leduc No. 1, Assiniboia, Kootenay Brown, The Big Four, Alberta Liberal Party leadership election, 2008, Amber Valley, Alberta, Steamboats of the Mackenzie River, Fort Victoria, Nemiskam National Park, Treaty 7, Dome Petroleum, 19th Alberta Dragoons, Province of Buffalo, Prosperity certificate, Canadian Commercial Bank, Calgary and Edmonton Trail, Alberta Act, Alberta Provincial Police, Buckingham House, Reference re Alberta Statutes, District of Alberta. Excerpt: What is today the province of Alberta, Canada has a history and prehistory stretching back thousands of years. Recorded or written history begins with the arrival of Europeans. The ancestors of today's First Nations in Alberta arrived in the area at least 8,000 years BC, according to the Bering land bridge theory. Southerly tribes, the Plain Indians, such as the Blackfoot, Blood, and Peigans eventually adapted to semi-nomadic Plains Bison hunting, originally without the aid of horses, but later with horses Europeans had introduced. More northerly tribes, li...
