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Alberta’s colorful 50 years since provincehood
Edmonton report recounts Alberta’s journey from frontier fur trading to a modern economy under Liberal, United Farmers, and Social Credit rule. It notes population rising from 100,000 to 900,000, treasury branches and Social Credit scrip, and postwar booms in agriculture and energy with 1954 oil output at 227 million dollars and gas near two million, plus rising farm production.
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Edmonton
Alta
Rmers
Alberta
Alberta Plains
Anthony Henday
Hudson's Bay Co
Canada
Liberal Party
United Farmers of Alberta
UFA
Social Credit Party
Social Credit
Treasury