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Provisional District of Alberta
Provisional district of the North-West Territories
1882–1905
A 1900 map showing the boundaries of the District of Alberta.

History

• Established	1882
• Disestablished	1905



Today part of	Alberta

The District of Alberta was one of four districts of the Northwest Territories created in 1882. It was styled the Alberta Provisional District to distinguish it from the District of Keewatin which had a more autonomous relationship from the NWT administration. The modern province of Alberta was created in 1905 from the District of Alberta and parts of the Districts of Athabasca, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan.

The boundaries of the district were:

On the south, the international boundary, 49° north.
On the east, the line between the 10th and 11th ranges west of the fourth meridian of the Dominion Land Survey. This line, now designated Range Road 110, has jogs at each correction line. It crosses Highway 16 between Innisfree and Minburn and Highway 1 between Tilley and Suffield.
On the north, the 18th correction line, approximately 55° north, now designated Township Road 710.
On the west, the British Columbia boundary: the height of land of Pacific Ocean drainage and the 120th meridian west.

The District of Alberta was used as a federal riding from 1887 to 1908.

References

Acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, Ottawa: Brown Chamberlin Law Printer (for Canada), 1886
Fung, Professor of Geography, University of Saskatchewan., Dr. K.I.; Richards, J. Howard, Evolution-boundaries-1882: (1969). Atlas of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon: Modern Press., retrieved 2007-10-12{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Alberta becomes a Province". Alberta Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 6, 2009.
Canada (1886). Acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada. Brown Chamberlin, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
"Alberta (Provisional District), Northwest Territories (1886-06-02 - 1908-09-16)". Parlinfo. Retrieved 2024-09-20.

Sub-region of Interior plains, shared with US Great Plains

Physiographic sub-regions

Physical features

Ecozones (CEC) and ecoregions (WWF)

Parks and protected areas

International recognition	World Heritage Sites Head-Smashed-In Dinosaur Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai'pi UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Beaver Hills Redberry Lake Riding Mountain
National	Parks Elk Island Grasslands Riding Mountain Waterton Lakes Historic Sites Bar U Ranch Batoche Cypress Hills Massacre Fort Battleford Fort Livingstone Fort Pelly Fort Walsh Forts Rouge, Fort Garry, and Fort Gibraltar Frenchman Butte Frog Lake Linear Mounds Lower Fort Garry Riding Mountain Park East Gate Registration Complex Riel House Rocky Mountain House The Forks

Historic regions

Indigenous peoples