Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wells in the Alberta oil fields are American owned...
...vital east-west links were added. In 1958 the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (TIME, Dec. 14) completed the longest microwave relay network (4,000 miles) in the world. The Trans-Canada pipeline, finished in 1958, put Ontario and Quebec markets within reach of the rich, new Alberta gasfields. By the end of 1960, the last scattered 130 miles of the country's first transcontinental highway - which was only a map in 1940 - will be paved and ready for traffic. "The '50s completed our unity from east to west," says Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton...