The Glenbow Museum is an art and history regional museum in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The museum focuses on Western Canadian history and culture, including Indigenous perspectives. The Glenbow was established as a private non-profit...
Lake Louise (named Horâ Juthin Îmne or Ho-run-num-nay (Lake of the Little Fishes) by the Stoney Nakoda First Nations people) is a glacial lake within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Situated 11 km (6.8 mi) east of the border with British...
Hugh Aylmer Dempsey, (November 7, 1929 - May 24, 2022) was a Canadian historian, an author and the Chief Curator Emeritus of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. Dempsey authored more than 20 books, focusing primarily on the history of people of...
Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making Calgary the third-largest city and the fifth-largest metropolitan area in...
The Alberta Ministry of Arts, Culture and Status of Women, commonly called Alberta Culture, is the Government of Alberta department responsible for the province's cultural industries, arts, and heritage, as well as the promotion of women's...
The monarchy of Canada forms the core of each Canadian provincial jurisdiction's Westminster-style parliamentary democracy, being the foundation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government in each province. The monarch since 8...
Eric Lafferty Harvie (2 April 1892 – 11 January 1975) was a Canadian lawyer and oilman. Holding mineral rights to large tracts of land in the Edmonton area, Harvie made a fortune after the oil discoveries at Leduc in 1947 and Redwater in 1948. After...
Mike Robinson, CM is the former president and CEO of Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. From 1979 to 1986, Robinson worked in the Calgary oil patch for Petro-Canada and Polar Gas as one of the first generation of environmental and social...
Gladys Johnston (née Foster; 1906–1983) was a Canadian artist known primarily for her landscapes. Johnston was a self-taught painter; she was also an author, writing local and family history books and travel stories. Johnston spent most of her life...
By the arrangements of the Canadian federation, Canada's monarchy operates in Alberta as the core of the province's Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. As such, the Crown within Alberta's jurisdiction is referred to as the Crown in Right of...
