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Climate data for Calgary (Calgary International Airport) WMO ID : 71877; coordinates 51°06′50″N 114°01′13″W / 51.11389°N 114.02028°W / 51.11389; -114.02028 ( Calgary International Airport ) ; elevation: 1,084.1 m (3,557 ft); 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1881
Alberta has 19 cities that had a cumulative population of 3,023,641 (not including the population in the Saskatchewan portion of Lloydminster) and an average population of 159,139 in the 2021 Census of Population. [2] Alberta's largest and smallest cities are Calgary and Wetaskiwin, with populations of 1,306,784 and 12,594, respectively. [2]
Southern Alberta is renowned for its cowboy culture, which developed when real open range ranching was practiced in the 1880s. [5] Canada's first rodeo, the Raymond Stampede, was established in 1902. These influences are also evident in the music of Canada's Prairie Provinces. This can be attributed partially to the massive influx of American ...
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. [2] Located in Western Canada, the province has an area of 661,190 km 2 (255,290 sq mi) and is bounded to the south by the United States state of Montana along 49° north for 298 km (185 mi); to the east at 110° west by the province of Saskatchewan for 1,223 km (760 mi); and at 60° north the Northwest Territories for 644 km ...
The following tables show the average maximum and minimum temperatures of Canada of various cities across Canada, based on the climate period from 1981 to 2010 for the months of January and July (generally the lowest and highest average temperature months, but not in every case).
The Calgary census metropolitan area (CMA) is the fourth-largest CMA in Canada and the largest in Alberta. It had a population of 1,392,609 in the 2016 Census compared to its 2011 population of 1,214,839. Its five-year population change of 14.6 percent was the highest among all CMAs in Canada between 2011 and 2016.
In Alberta, a special area is a type of rural municipality that can be incorporated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under the authority of the Special Areas Act, which was enacted in 2000. [8] [32] They were originally created in 1938 as a result of hardship brought upon a particular area in southeastern Alberta during the drought of the ...
Community Province Elevation (m) Population (Year) [1]; Lake Louise: Alberta: 1,600 m (5,200 ft) [2] 691 (2011) [3]: Banff: Alberta: 1,400 m (4,600 ft) [2] 7,851 ...