Sagal keita biography of alberta

See also: Timeline of Alberta history

The province of Alberta, Canada, has a history and prehistory stretching back thousands of years. The ancestors of today's First Nations in Alberta arrived in the area by at least 10,000 BC according to the Bering land bridge theory.

Southerly tribes, the Plain Indians, such as the Blackfoot, Blood, and Peigans eventually adapted to seminomadicplains bisonhunting, originally without the aid of horses, but later with horses that Europeans had introduced.

Recorded or written history begins with the arrival of Europeans.

The rich soil was ideal for growing wheat and the vast prairie grasslands were great for raising cattle.

Sagal keita biography of alberta canada

The coming of the railways in the late 19th century led a to large-scale migration of farmers and cattleman from Eastern Canada, the United States, and Europe. Wheat and cattle remain important, but the farms are much larger now and the rural population much smaller.

Alberta has urbanized and its ec