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normal schools, at Calgary and Camrose, are 

 maintained by the province. 



Then- is a distinct tendency to supplement 

 the older academic system by vocational and 

 technical work. In agriculture, the scope of the 

 work in the public schools has been suitably 

 defined, a system of secondary or trade schools 

 in agriculture is administered by the provincial 

 department of agriculture, and a faculty of 

 agriculture has been established in the pro- 

 iv. In Edmonton, Calgary, 

 Medicine Hat, Lcthbridge and other cities tech- 

 work is established. 



To cap the public school system the pro- 

 vincial University of Alberta (which see) was 



an act of the Dominion Parliament creating the 

 provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. 



The formal legal installation of the new 

 provincial officers took place on September 1, 

 1905, Hon. George H. V. Bulyea being tlu> first, 

 Lieutenant-Governor, and Hon. Alexander 

 Cameron Rutherford the first Premier. The 

 first legislature met in 1906 at Edmonton, 

 which was fixed as the capital. The year 1909 

 marked the completion of the Grand Trunk 

 Pacific Railway from Winnipeg to Edmonton, 

 and also the purchase by the government of 

 all the telephone lines in the province. 



In the year 1910 Premier Rutherford, who 

 was likewise Minister of Railways, resigned on 



THE FARM 



Spr.ng Wheat 



Oats 



L-veSlocH So'd 



M.IK 



Fall Wheat 



ALBERTA PRODUCTS CHART 



F.gures Based on Canadian Government Reports 



Millions of Dol lars Annually 

 5 10 15 20 25 



Barley 



Potatoes 



Butter 



Animals slaughtered 



Turnips.Beets.etc 



Alfalfa 



Rye 



3p THE FACTORY 



Cut Stone 



Bread Confectionery 



Awnings, etc 



Prmting,Publishing 



Butter.Cheese 



Electricity 



Log, Products 



Br.cKJ.Ie 



Rail road Car Repairs 



Lumber 



F bur, Grist 



Meatpacking 



THE MINE 

 Coal 



SOURCES OF ALBERTA'S WEALTH, IN AMOUNTS FOR AVERAGE YEARS 



established at Edmonton in 1910. Affiliated 

 with it are Alberta College (Methodist) and 

 Robertson College (Presbyterian). The other 

 for higher education include the 

 Provincial Institute of Technology at Calgary, 

 the Lutheran College at Camrose, the Presby- 

 terian Ladies' College at Red Deer, Mount 

 Royal College (Methodist) and Western Can- 

 ada College (Baptist), both at Calgary. 



History. As told above, the name Alberta 

 was given to a district of the Northwest Terri- 

 tories in 1882. Calgary was founded in the 

 next year, ami the completion of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway in 1885 gave a new impulse to 

 settlement. As other communities soon dotted 

 the plains, a demand arose for self-government, 

 but not until 1905 was this demand granted by 



account of the criticism from members of both 

 parties of the method and terms of guaran- 

 teeing the securities of the Alberta & Great 

 Waterways Railway. Arthur L. Sifton, chief 

 justice of the province, was called upon to 

 form a government. These were both Liberal 

 governments. 



The province had advanced liberal subsidies 

 to the railway company, and had guaranteed 

 its bonds. The Sifton government, claiming 

 that the company was not fulfulling its con- 

 tract, attempted to withdraw $7,400,000 which 

 was deposited \n several Edmonton banks to 

 the credit of the company. The effect of this 

 act would have been to place the railway 

 under provincial control, but after the case 

 had been carried- through the lower courts, the 



