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Province of W Canada area 661,200 sq km/
255,223 sq mi capital Edmonton towns Calgary,
Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer physical
the Rocky Mountains; dry, treeless prairie in
the centre and south; towards the north this
merges into a zone of poplar, then mixed
forest. The valley of the Peace River is the
most northerly farming land in Canada (except
for Inuit pastures), and there are good
grazing lands in the foothills of the
Rockies. features Banff, Jasper, and Waterton
Lake national parks; annual Calgary stampede,
extensive dinosaur finds near Drumheller
products coal; wheat, barley, oats, sugar
beet in the south; more than a million head
of cattle; oil and natural gas. population
(1986) 2,375,000 history in the 17th century
much of its area was part of a grant to the
Hudson's Bay Company for the fur trade. It
became a province in 1905.