10 Interesting Facts About Alberta

10 Interesting Facts About Alberta: Alberta is westernmost of Canada’s 3 provinces it is known as Canada’s “energy province,” Alberta is home to 4 million people, and is quickly growing province.

Bulk of huge population resides in Alberta’s 2 largest cities : Calgary and Edmonton, serves as provincial capital. Each have population over 1 million residents.

Alberta is world leader in gas and oil industry, but it is home to fast-growing, service economy and vibrant industrial. Thanks to opportunities provided by economic growth, Alberta is one of the top destinations for visitors to Canada.

Nowadays, Alberta is Canada’s most prosperous province, and is being recognized worldwide for high standard of living.

Testicle Festival:  You heard correct! Calgary is home to a popular festival i.e “ Calgary Testicle Festival ” where testicles of bull testicles are being served in different ways. If you don’t know exactly that what you are eating, it is very amazing and delicious experience,just tastes like chicken.

Calgary Stampede: Calgary is home to world’s largest outdoor festival, Calgary Stampede. There is an event from riding to cooking competitions, and massive outdoor fair which accompanies stampede in drawing in million of visitors every year.

Cleanest City In World: Here is an another fact from Calgary, Alberta produces around 48% of Canada’s pollution with oil sand so that Calgary has taken huge steps to improve city to compensate. Calgary created around 31 millions dollar, also introduced $1,000 fine for cars and by 2020 this have more than around 80% of garbage that has been diverted away from the landfills.

Top 5 Best Cities In The World: The fact dealing with Calgary directly is that Forbes has declared that Calgary is one of top 5 cities in the world. This rating is recognized by some factors like infrastructure, education, environment, culture, healthcare and stability.

Largest Mall: West Edmonton Mall was world’s largest till 2004 when this was out by a mall in Dubai, this mall still claims title for largest mall in the North America. Some of the staggering facts: This mall covers around 5.3 million sq. ft. , there are around 800 shops, a full theatre and a full theme park that gets visitors between 90,000 and 200,000 in a single day. Value of this mall in year 2007 was about 1 billion dollars.

An Artificial Waterfall: Edmonton is extremly flat, so there is no hope for having a natural waterfall anywhere. So this city built an artificial waterfall near downtown to celebrate cities 75th birthday, this waterfall is higher around 7 metres than Niagara Falls.

Mac Fires: 2016 Spring was a very terrible time for residents of Fort McMurray, it is Canada’s largest and destructive wildfires that moved through city of 80,000 that destroyed everything in the path. More amazing fact is that it had an estimate of 120,000 people who were evacuated when it was burning all around on the roads and no single death was occurred, in fact there was no serious life threatening injury which took place during entire event.

Eliminated Homelessness: Medicine Hat eliminated homelessness with city boarders. Medicine Hat built huge micro homes shelter for homeless, in an addition to improved job training and food banks. It is estimated that though city has invested millions of homelessness and this cost around 5x as much in long run for per person to leave all these people without training or shelter.

Entrepreneurial Province: Alberta is officially Canada’s entrepreneurial province, having 18.2% of businesses which are less than 3 years and 36% of businesses are owned independently.

Canada’s WWII Project: Habakkuk was a project which was carried in Alberta’s Lake Louise,truly Canadian fashion is super secret project which was to build aircraft carrier of ice, wood pulp and steel to float in Atlantic ocean which was to be used by Allied forces to combat Germany.

To get more information about Alberta, you may visit https://www.alberta.ca/index.aspx