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Alberta's North

Alberta's NorthThe largest of the province's six tourism areas, this region encompasses a vast expanse of land stretching from just north of Edmonton to the border with the Northwest Territories.

The Aboriginal Peoples of Treaty 8 live here and the area was important to the Fur Trade, which resulted in the development of Métis communities, the first Francophone communities in the province. Some of the first settlers were trying to find an overland route to the Klondike Gold Rush.

Heritage of the Mighty PeaceHeritage of the Mighty Peace
This website will guide you through the diverse history of this area by presenting the stories of the earliest inhabitants who helped shape it...

Spirit of Peace Museum's Online Catalogue Spirit of Peace Museum's Online Catalogue
This online digital catalogue provides access to selected artifacts, archival images and records drawn from the collections of 26 museums in northern Alberta...

St. Vincent and St. Paul St. Vincent and St. Paul
The Era of the Fur Trade first brought Francophone fur traders to northern Alberta and created Métis communities...

People of the Boreal Forest People of the Boreal Forest
Terry Garvin who, between 1954 and 2000, recorded in text and photographs the lives of traditional Aboriginal hunters and trappers living in Canada's northwest boreal forest...

Treaty 8 Treaty 8
This virtual exhibit explores the making of Treaty 8 through text, historic photographs, audio, video and contextual information...

Alberta's Francophone Heritage Alberta's Francophone Heritage
Francophone Alberta is important historically, politically, economically, culturally and socially...

Alberta Naturally Alberta Naturally
Francophone Alberta is important historically, politically, economically, culturally and socially...

The Road: Building of the Alaska Highway The Road: Building of the Alaska Highway
In 2005, the Edmonton Art Gallery, (now the Art Gallery of Alberta) produced the exhibition THE ROAD: Constructing the Alaska Highway. This Web site recreates to that exhibit...

The Road: Building of the Alaska Highway Alberta's Black Pioneer Heritage
This site gives a brief history of Black pioneer settlement in Alberta and includes insights into the social and political conditions affecting immigration during the 19th and 20th centuries...

Celebrating Alberta's Italian Community Celebrating Alberta's Italian Community
Immigrants from Italy began to come to Western Canada in the 1880s to work on the railways and in the mines...
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