The ''Alberta Act'' (french: Loi sur l'Alberta), effective September 1, 1905, was the act of the Parliament of Canada that created the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

. The ''Act'' is similar in nature to the '' Saskatchewan Act'', which established the province of

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...

at the same time. Like the ''Saskatchewan Act'', the ''Alberta Act'' was controversial because (sec. 21) it allowed the

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to maintain control of all of Alberta's

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s and

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s. Alberta did not win control of these resources until the passage of the ''

Natural Resources Acts The Natural Resources Acts were a series of Acts passed by the Parliament of Canada and the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in 1930 to transfer control over crown lands and natural resources within these provi ...

'' in 1930. The ''Alberta Act'' defined the boundaries for the

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of the first Alberta general election in 1905. The ''Alberta Act'' is part of the ''

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''.

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English text of The Alberta Act

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