Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Canadian Rockies around Banff, Alberta, rang with the slogan* of Scottish clans and the skirl of their bagpipes. Descendants of the early settlers from all over the Dominion gathered for their third annual Highland Gathering and Music Festival. They danced the sword dance, sailor hornpipe and Highland Fling. They contended in throwing the caber, putting the stone. But chiefly they piped the bagpipes, vying for 21 prizes...
...Banff Festival the old contests are revived. There were 14,000 people (most of them in kilts) watching the outdoor piping and dancing contests. Among them were kilted Lieutenant-Governor Robert Randolph Bruce of British Columbia and William Egbert of Alberta, and the Rev. Charles William Gordon (Ralph Connor), Canadian Novelist author of The Sky Pilot, To Him that Hath, who conducted an open air religious service at Lake Devil's Cauldron. Some of last week's events were...
Canadian Amateur (Jasper, Alberta)? Eddie Held of Lakeville...
Glen Doris Ranch, Langdon, Alberta, Canada...
...enclosed clipping from the Journal of Edmonton, Alberta, is of interest to us particularly because it indicates that the writer of this paragraph probably is unaware of the fact that over 500,000 public and private school children and students in our colleges, subscribed to this fund...