Word: albertae
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...majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall be either Dry or Wet. At one time or another each of the nine Canadian provinces have gone Dry; but the following have resumed liquor sale under restricted government control; Quebec, 1918; British Columbia, 1921; Manitoba, 1923; Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1924; Ontario...
...settlers in the northwest and the (British) Hudson's Bay Co. became critical when the Democrats made their campaign slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight"-meaning that Oregon should extend north to 54° 40' and include about half of what is now British Columbia and Alberta, provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The Democrats won the election, did not get the "fifty-four forty" line (it was settled at 49°) and also did not fight, having on their hands the Mexican...
Although the nine state pools did not consolidate last week, the presence and encouragement of Premiers James G. Gardiner of Saskatchewan and J. E. Brownlee of Alberta caused those attending to hope for a world wheat pool perfected within the next 50 years, no long term for such a movement...
...weather conditions are favor able while the party is in camp it will try to ascend Mount Alberta, which was first scaled in 1925 by a party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak...
From Mount Tzar the party will move over to British Columbia, re-crossing into Alberta by the Athabaska Pass, an old fur-trade route first crossed...