ALBERTA 



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ALBERT EDWARD NYANZA 



Athabaska there are mossy swamps, called 

 "muskegs." These, when drained, furnish ex- 

 cellent farming land. 



From 1906 to 1914 there were but fourteen 

 divorce cases in Alberta. Divorces can be ob- 

 tained only by special act of Parliament. 



So rapidly are towns springing up that there 

 exists among them a rivalry as to which shall 

 rank as "the best new town of the year." 



Some agriculturists pronounce the soil of Al- 

 berta the most fertile in the world. 



The Alpine Club, which has its center at 

 Banff, is doing all it can to increase interest 

 in mountain climbing. It has 1,000 members. 



At Fort Vermilion, less than ten degrees from 

 the Arctic Circle, farming has been carried on 

 for years, and the production of wheat is on 

 the average twenty-one bushels to the acre. 

 This i> more than is usually grown on the 

 same area in North Dakota or Kansas, the 

 greatest wheat states of the United States. 



Consult Thwaites* Alberta: Its Wealth and 

 Progress. 



Related Subject*. The following articles con- 

 tain much detailed information which will sup- 

 plement the general material given in the article 

 above: 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Athabaska Lacombe 



Banff Lethbridge 



Bassano Macleod 



Blairmore Medicine Hat 



Calgary Raymond 



: ose Red Cliff 



Cardston Red Deer 



Coleman Stettler 

 Hunvpgan i>er 



Milmonton Vegrevil!.' 



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HISTORY 



Athahaska Royal Northwest 



Hudson's Bay Company Mounted Police 

 Rupert's Land 



Attataska 



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Asstnlbolnc 

 Athabanka 

 Columbia 



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LAKES 



Louise 



MOUNTAINS 

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March (son 



Rocky .M.iuii- 



PRODUCTS 



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Wheat 



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ALBER'TA, UNIVERSITY OF, a non-sectarian, 

 coeducational institution of learning. It was 

 established by act of the provincial legislature 

 in 1906, and the first classes were held in the 

 autumn of 1908. The government of the uni- 

 versity is divided between a board of governors, 

 whose functions are those of business manage- 

 ment and administration, and a senate, which 

 is entrusted with the supervision of the edu- 

 cational work, including the discipline of stu- 

 dents. The president and the chancellor, to- 

 gether with nine members appointed by the 

 lioutenant-governor-in-council, constitute the 

 board of governors. The governors are rx 

 officio members of the senate, which also in- 

 cludes the heads of affiliated colleges, the deans 

 of the faculties, the superintendent of educa- 

 tion for the province, and others. 



Instruction was at first provided only by the 

 faculty of arts and sciences, but the law faculty 

 was created in 1912, the faculties of applied 

 science and of medicine in 1913, and the faculty 

 of agriculture in 1915. From the beginning a 

 noteworthy feature of the university's activi- 

 ties has been the extension work, and in 1912 it 

 was recognized and organized as a department. 



The university is located in Edmonton, on 

 the south banks of the Saskatchewan River, 

 immediately opposite the provincial legisl 

 buildings. Athabaska Hall, Assiniboia Hall. 

 Pembina Hall and the main University Hall air 

 noteworthy buildings. Strathcona Hospital. 

 though built by the city of Edmonton, is on 

 the university campus and provides clinics for 

 the medical school. In affiliation with the uni- 

 -ity are Alberta College, the Methodist 

 theological training school, Robertson Colli-m-. 

 th<- Presbyterian training school, and several 

 other colleges and preparatory schools. Th< n 

 are about fifty professors and instructors on the 

 university's staff and about 500 students. 



ALBERT EDWARD NYAN'ZA, a lake 

 ing an area of 820 square miles, on the boundary 

 between Belgium Congo and Uganda, in Cen- 

 \irica. It is one of the principal sources 

 of the River Nile. It was discovered by Henr\ 

 M Maul. \ in 1876 and named in 1889 aft.! 

 the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. 

 Scmliki River carries its surplus waters into 

 Albert Nyanza through a valley in the Ruwen- 

 zori Mountains, which were explored by the 

 Duke of Abruzzi in 1906. It lies in a volcanic 

 region remarkable for the number of lakes 

 formed in extinct craters, and also for numer- 

 ous geysers. Fish abound, and crocodiles and 

 hippopotami are found -in the surrounding 



