Barrhead, Alberta, the Glossary

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1. 101 relations: Alan May, Alberta, Alberta Distance Learning Centre, Alberta Highway 18, Alberta Highway 33, American black bear, Anglicanism, Arnold Viersen, Athabasca River, Athabasca, Alberta, Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock, Aurora, Australia, Barrhead, Birch, Brian Storseth, Central Alberta, Chapala, Jalisco, Charles Yuill, Cougar, County of Barrhead No. 11, Coyote, Cree, Dairy, Deer, Doug Horner, Drouin, Victoria, Edmonton, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Finland, Fort Assiniboine, Fort Edmonton, Germany, Glenn van Dijken, Great blue heron, Grizzly bear, Hardiness zone, Hokkaido, Humid continental climate, Jalisco, Janis Irwin, Japan, Jokerit, Köppen climate classification, Ken Kowalski, Klondike Trail, Land-use framework regions of Alberta, Larix laricina, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, ... Expand index (51 more) »

2. 1927 establishments in Alberta

Alan May

Alan Randy May (born January 14, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current analyst.

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Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Alberta Distance Learning Centre

Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC) was an educational organization that provided distance and distributed education services to primary and secondary students.

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Alberta Highway 18

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 18, commonly referred to as Highway 18, is a highway in Alberta, Canada.

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Alberta Highway 33

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 33, commonly referred to as Highway 33 and officially named Grizzly Trail, is a north–south highway in west–central Alberta, Canada.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Arnold Viersen

Arnold Viersen (born May 3, 1986) is a Canadian Conservative politician who was elected to represent the riding of Peace River—Westlock in the 2015 Canadian federal election.

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Athabasca River

The Athabasca River (French: Rivière Athabasca) is a river in Alberta, Canada, which originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows more than before emptying into Lake Athabasca.

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Athabasca, Alberta

Athabasca (2021 population 2,759), originally named Athabasca Landing, is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. Barrhead, Alberta and Athabasca, Alberta are towns in Alberta.

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Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock

Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock is a current provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada.

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Aurora

An aurora (aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Barrhead

Barrhead (Baurheid, Ceann a' Bharra) is a town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes and is the only place in greater Glasgow to still have trams.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Brian Storseth

Brian S. Storseth (born 1978) is a businessman and Conservative politician in Alberta, Canada.

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Central Alberta

Central Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Chapala, Jalisco

Chapala is a town and municipality in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, located on the north shore of Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest freshwater lake.

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Charles Yuill

Charles Yuill (August 14, 1889 – July 30, 1972) was a former Mayor of Barrhead, Alberta and served as a Canadian federal politician from 1953 to 1958.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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County of Barrhead No. 11

The County of Barrhead No.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Cree

The Cree (script, néhiyaw, nihithaw, etc.; Cri) are a North American Indigenous people.

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Dairy

A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Doug Horner

Douglas Alan Horner (born January 17, 1961) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Spruce Grove-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 until January 31, 2015.

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Drouin, Victoria

Drouin is a town in the West Gippsland region, east of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood

Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Fort Assiniboine

Fort Assiniboine is a hamlet in northwest Alberta, Canada, within Woodlands County.

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Fort Edmonton

Fort Edmonton (also named Edmonton House) was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) from 1795 to 1914, all of which were located on the north banks of the North Saskatchewan River in what is now central Alberta, Canada.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glenn van Dijken

Glenn Jerry van Dijken (born September 6, 1962) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock in the 30th Alberta Legislature.

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Great blue heron

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.

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Grizzly bear

The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America.

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Jalisco

Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco (Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Janis Irwin

Janis Irwin (born September 9, 1984) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 2019 Alberta general election, and re-elected in the 2023 Alberta General Election.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jokerit

Helsingin Jokerit (English: Jokers or Jesters of Helsinki) is a professional ice hockey team based in Helsinki, Finland, which competes in Mestis.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Ken Kowalski

Kenneth Reginald Kowalski (born September 27, 1945) is a politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada.

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Klondike Trail

The Klondike Trail or Chalmers Trail was an overland route to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon, Canada.

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Land-use framework regions of Alberta

Land-use framework regions are a scheme of organizing local governments adopted by the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Larix laricina

Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also an isolated population in central Alaska.

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Legislative Assembly of Alberta

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada.

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Leland Irving

Leland Bruce Irving (born April 11, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, currently an unrestricted free agent.

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Liiga

The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland.

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List of House members of the 44th Parliament of Canada

This is a preliminary list of members of the House of Commons of Canada in the 44th Canadian Parliament.

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List of municipal districts in Alberta

A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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List of postal codes of Canada: T

This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is T. Postal codes beginning with T are located within the Canadian province of Alberta.

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List of towns in Alberta

A town is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta. Barrhead, Alberta and List of towns in Alberta are towns in Alberta.

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List of villages in Alberta

A village is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Melissa Lotholz

Melissa Lotholz (born December 2, 1992) is a Canadian bobsledder.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Ministry of Municipal Affairs (Alberta)

Alberta Municipal Affairs is a ministry of the Executive Council of Alberta.

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Moose

The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.

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Mountain Time Zone

The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time (UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−06:00).

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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North-West Mounted Police

The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the 1870 transfer of Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, the Red River Rebellion and in response to lawlessness, demonstrated by the subsequent Cypress Hills Massacre and fears of United States military intervention.

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Northern Alberta Railways

Northern Alberta Railways was a Canadian railway which served northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).

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Packhorse

A packhorse, pack horse, or sumpter refers to a horse, mule, donkey, or pony used to carry goods on its back, usually in sidebags or panniers.

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Paddle River

The Paddle River is a short river in northern Alberta, Canada.

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Peace River—Westlock

Peace River—Westlock is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.

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Pembina Hills Regional Division No. 7

The Pembina Hills School Division, (formerly known as Pembina Hills Regional Division No. 7 and Pembina Hills Public Schools) is a school division headquartered in Barrhead, Alberta.

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Pembina River (Alberta)

The Pembina River is a tributary of the Athabasca River in central Alberta, Canada.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Pull-tab

A pull-tab is a gambling ticket for a pull-tab game.

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Pyeongchang County

Pyeongchang (in full, Pyeongchang-gun) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region.

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Reach for the Top

Reach for the Top (also known simply as Reach) is a Canadian academic quiz competition for high school students.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scratchcard

A scratchcard (also called a scratch off, scratch ticket, scratcher, scratchum, scratch-it, scratch game, scratch-and-win, instant game, instant lottery, scratchie, lot scrots, or scritchies) is a card designed for competitions, often made of thin cardstock or plastic to conceal PINs, where one or more areas contain concealed information which can be revealed by scratching off an opaque covering.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.

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TD Canada Trust

TD Canada Trust, commonly shortened in marketing to simply TD, is the Canadian commercial banking division of the multinational TD Bank Group.

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Thunder Lake Provincial Park

Thunder Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Alberta, Canada, and is located west of Edmonton, on the shore of the park features setting for boating, water-skiing, swimming, running, fishing and camping.

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Tokoro, Hokkaido

is a small town, once was an independent administrative division located in Tokoro District, Abashiri Subprefecture (now Okhotsk Subprefecture), Hokkaido, Japan.

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United Church of Canada

The United Church of Canada (Église unie du Canada) is a mainline Protestant denomination that is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada and the second largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholic Church in Canada.

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Upper Athabasca Region

The Upper Athabasca Region is a land-use framework region in northern Alberta, Canada.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Western States Hockey League

The Western States Hockey League (WSHL) was a junior ice hockey league established in 1993.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.

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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.

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York Factory Express

The York Factory Express, usually called "the Express" and also the Columbia Express and the Communication, was a 19th-century fur brigade operated by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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2016 Canadian census

The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688.

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2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics (Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (Pyeongchang Icheon sip-pal), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a day before the opening ceremony.

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2021 Canadian census

The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021.

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See also

1927 establishments in Alberta

• Barrhead, Alberta
• CFRN (AM)
• CJAQ-FM
• CKUA Radio Network
• Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
• Kelly Ramsey Building
• Mayerthorpe
• St. Joseph Seminary (Edmonton)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrhead,_Alberta

Also known as Barrhead, AB.

, Leland Irving, Liiga, List of House members of the 44th Parliament of Canada, List of municipal districts in Alberta, List of postal codes of Canada: T, List of towns in Alberta, List of villages in Alberta, Livestock, Melissa Lotholz, Mexico, Ministry of Municipal Affairs (Alberta), Moose, Mountain Time Zone, Natural gas, North-West Mounted Police, Northern Alberta Railways, Oil, Packhorse, Paddle River, Peace River—Westlock, Pembina Hills Regional Division No. 7, Pembina River (Alberta), Pine, Populus, Provinces and territories of Canada, Pull-tab, Pyeongchang County, Reach for the Top, Scotland, Scratchcard, Sheep, Sister city, South Korea, Spruce, Statistics Canada, Subarctic climate, TD Canada Trust, Thunder Lake Provincial Park, Tokoro, Hokkaido, United Church of Canada, Upper Athabasca Region, Victoria (state), Western States Hockey League, Wheat, Willow, Wolf, York Factory Express, Yukon, 2016 Canadian census, 2018 Winter Olympics, 2021 Canadian census.