Alberta History 1988-2002

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Jasper Alberta's Historic View

1988

October 22: The Lubicon near Buffalo, Alberta settled a long standing land claim by accepting 95 sq miles for a reserve and mineral rights to 79 sq miles.



1991

Alberta's Attorney General Ken Rostad requested a full pardon from Justice Minister Kim Campbell for Louis Riel, on behalf of the Metis Nation of Alberta Association. Some consider Louis Riel, not only as the founding father of Manitoba, but also the Metis Nation. This is absurd unless it refers to the Canadian Prairie Metis of the nineteen-century. However, he has become a symbol of the Metis and a martyr in the truest sense.

January 30: The Hudson Bay Company has decided to phase out of the fur business this year after three hundred and twenty one years.

The religious composition of Alberta this year is as follows:

1992

Ralph Klein, Conservative, is elected Premier of Alberta 1992-2006.



1998

Canada's top court read sexual orientation into Alberta's Human Rights Code as a prohibited grounds for discrimination, they effectively rewrote the law, further eroding our Rights and Freedoms. Sexual orientation includes asexuality, homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, polgyny, polyandry and many other orientations considered as deviant behavior or mental disorders.

1999

This year in Alberta is recorded as the warmest on recent record and the glaciers and Arctic ice is retreating but the Antarctic ice is expanding.

2000

A $600 million expansion of Imperial Oil's wholly owned oil sands operation in Cold Lake, Alberta begins.



2002

The population of Canada is 31,414,000. There are more than 200 different ethnic origins in Canada:

• 43% Roman Catholic


• 29% Protestant


• 16% no religion


• 2% Muslim


• 10% other




Life expectancy in Canada - 79 years.

23% of working Canadians have a University Education.

3% of Canadians are involved in agriculture

5% of Canadian land is farmed.



July: This is classified by some Alberta farmers as the year "even weeds won't grow." The official position, this is the worst growing season, on the Prairies, in recorded history.

Jasper Alberta's History