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By the arrangements of the Canadian federation, Canada's monarchy operates in Alberta as the core of the province's Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. [1] As such, the Crown within Alberta's jurisdiction is referred to as the Crown in Right of Alberta, [2] His Majesty in Right of Alberta, [3] or The King in Right of Alberta. [4]
The federal government initially retained all lands in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, unlike the situation in eastern Canada, where the provinces held Crown lands and could make land grants. [8] The federal Crown's ownership of the land in western Canada included the power to grant land titles, and also the power to determine if ...
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc.), are predominantly rural areas that may include either farmland, Crown land or a combination of both depending on their geographic location.
About 89% of Canada's land area (8,886,356 km 2 or 3,431,041 sq mi) is Crown land: 41% is federal crown land and 48% is provincial crown land. The remaining 11% is privately owned. [ 10 ] Most federal Crown land is in the territories ( Northwest Territories , Nunavut , and Yukon ) and is administered by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada .
Kananaskis Country includes four areas of Crown land (also known as provincial land or public land) called Public Land Use Zones (PLUZ). The largest is the Kananaskis Country Public Land Use Zone which takes up over a quarter of Kananaskis Country's land area. The other public land uses zones are Sibbald, Cataract, and McLean.
Famous Five, five Alberta women, are successful in their legal challenge,Edwards v Canada. Privy Council decision declares women are persons under the law and thus can be appointed to the Senate. [36] December 14, 1929 Alberta Natural Resources Act transfers control of Alberta's natural resources and Crown land to the province. [37] 1929-1939
The park is located in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northeastern Alberta. The park is south of Wood Buffalo National Park, Birch River Wildland Provincial Park, and Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park. It borders Alberta Crown land to the north and south and most of the west. It abuts Birch River Wildland Provincial ...
The early 1990s proved to be a contentious period for delineation of electoral districts in Alberta. The Supreme Court of British Columbia ruling in Dixon v. Attorney General of British Columbia in 1989 invalidated the provincial electoral district re-distribution due to wide variations between electoral district populations for British Columbia, finding these differences inconsistent with the ...