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After the 1885 North-West Rebellion was put down, settlers began to pour into Alberta. The closing of the American frontier around 1890 led 600,000 Americans (mainly from the Midwest and Upper South regions) to move to Saskatchewan and Alberta, where the farming frontier flourished 1897–1914. [18]
A block settlement (or bloc settlement) is a particular type of land distribution which allows settlers with the same ethnicity to form small colonies. This settlement type was used throughout western Canada between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some were planned and others were spontaneously created by the settlers themselves.
The first person in Alberta dies from the virus on March 19. [42] Kills almost 5000. September 30, 2022 On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Alberta government and Manitou Asinîy-Iniskim-Tsa Xani Centre commits to returning the Manitou Stone (Creator Stone), a 145 kg meteorite, to its landing site near Hardisty.
Edgerton Winnett Day (November 26, 1863 – February 11, 1919) was a Canadian politician and pioneer settler in the area that became the Canadian province of Alberta. Born in 1863 in Canada West , Day completed his education, and took up a job as a stagecoach driver.
The colony was founded by a group of Ukrainian settlers led by Iwan Pylypow in 1891 (although he himself did not settle permanently until the next year). Pylypow's first farm was near the present-day village of Star, Alberta, then called Edna, and the name Edna-Star was applied to the whole area
Willis Reese Bowen (February 6, 1875 – 1975) was one of the first settlers in Amber Valley, Alberta.His home, Obadiah Place, is a historic site. [1]Bowen was born in Butler County, Alabama, and was one of a group of black Americans who moved from Oklahoma to Canada in 1911, filing for homesteads north of Edmonton and east of Athabasca Landing. [1]
Modern day Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta were part of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, which were controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company before becoming part of the Canadian Confederation in 1870. Newfoundland and Labrador was once a British colony before joining the Canadian Confederation in 1949.
Alderson is a locality in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. [2] Now a ghost town, it previously held village status until January 31, 1936, [3] and was known as the Village of Carlstadt from 1911 to 1916. The name was changed during the First World War when many other settlements in Canada and Australia changed German place names. [1]