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Family Day in Alberta was first celebrated in 1990, [5] making it the only province to have a statutory holiday in February until Saskatchewan began observing the day in 2007. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The holiday was proclaimed by Lieutenant Governor Helen Hunley , on the advice of her premier , Don Getty .
This is believed to be the most Edmontonians killed in a single event since the 1987 tornado, and deadliest day in the history of the university. February 23, 2020 Teck Resources withdraws its application to build the Frontier Mine in northern Alberta despite having spent more than one billion dollars over then ten years on the project.
Treaty 6 is signed between the Plain and Wood Cree First Nations and the Canadian Crown, surrendering lands in present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan. [68] 1877 22 September Treaty 7 is signed by the Nakoda and Blackfoot First Nations and the Canadian Crown, surrendering lands in southern present-day Alberta. [69] 1880: 1 September
The Literary History of Alberta: Volume One at the Internet Archive; Melnyk, George (1998). The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-324-7. The Literary History of Alberta: Volume Two at the Internet Archive; Tupper, Allan; Gibbins, Roger (1992).
National Family Week is celebrated throughout the country with special events put on by community organizations. National Family Week also exists in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. It is a distinct event from Family Day which is a statutory holiday created by the provincial governments of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
2013 – The inaugural Tour of Alberta launches from Edmonton [25] 2014 – 53-year-old Phu Lam murders his ex-wife and six relatives on December 29, the worst mass murder in Edmonton's history. [26] 2016 Construction was completed on August 16, 2016 for the Royal Alberta Museum new location in Downtown Edmonton. [27]
Family Day is a public holiday in the countries of Angola, Israel, Namibia, South Africa, Uruguay, Vanuatu, and Vietnam; in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan; in the American states of Arizona and Nevada; and as the second day of Songkran in Thailand.
Canada Day – celebrated nationwide 1 July annually, marks Canada's 1867 Confederation and establishment of dominion status, Civic Holiday – is a public holiday in Canada celebrated on the first Monday in August [63] Family Day – In most provinces of Canada, the third Monday in February is observed as a regional statutory holiday