Canada's
largest mountain national park - Jasper
National Park
Canada's first/oldest national park - Banff
National Park
World's largest shopping and entertainment
complex - West Edmonton Mall,
Edmonton
The most visited attraction in Western Canada
with 22 million visitors annually!
World's first international "Peace
Park" - Waterton Lakes/Glacier
National Park
World's second largest national park - Wood
Buffalo National Park (largest in Canada)
Largest ski area in Canada - Lake
Louise
One of the most beautiful city halls in
the World - Edmonton
World's largest Ukrainian Easter Egg (Pysanka)
- Vegreville
Second
largest glacier fed lake in the world - Maligne
Lake (Jasper National Park)
One of the world's most photographed lakes
- Moraine Lake (Banff National
Park)
North America's largest outdoor music festival
- Big Valley Jamboree (Camrose)
World's largest Tyrannosaurus Rex - Drumheller
One of the most scenic highways in the world
- Icefields Parkway
Canada's largest public display of live
reptiles - Reptile World (Drumheller)
World's largest herd of free roaming bison
- Wood Buffalo National Park
North America's oldest, best preserved buffalo
jump site - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
World's largest oil sands development -
Suncor/Syncrude Oil Sand Plant (Fort McMurray)
World's largest dam, near Fort McMurray,
North of Edmonton
Only city in Canada found within two provinces
- Lloydminster
Largest museum in Western Canada - Glenbow
Museum (Calgary)
Largest historical theme park in Canada
- Fort Edmonton Park, Edmonton
Bird capital of Canada - McLennan
North America's largest theatre festival
- Fringe Festival (Edmonton)
Second largest zoo in Canada - Calgary Zoo
(Calgary)
One of the richest dinosaur finds in the
world - Dinosaur Provincial Park
Home of Iceland's greatest poet - Stephansson
House (Markerville, Alberta)
World's largest Olympic museum - Olympic
Hall of Fame (Calgary)
The richest show jumping contest in the
world - The Masters (Calgary)
Largest collection of antique cars, trucks
& planes - Reynolds Alberta Museum (Wetaskiwin)
Greatest outdoor show on earth - Calgary
Stampede (Calgary)
World's first and only U.F.O. landing pad
- St. Paul
More parkland per capita than any other
North American city - Edmonton
World's first Indoor bungy jump - West
Edmonton Mall (Edmonton)
World's tallest teepee - Medicine Hat
Collection of horse drawn vehicles - Remington
Alberta Carriage Centre - Near Edmonton
Triple Continental Divide feeds 3 rivers
that flow to 3 oceans - Near Athabasca
Glacier
There are no rats in Alberta - largest rat-free
land mass on Earth (except Antarctica)
Largest reserve of money in the Western
World - The Alberta Heritage Trust Fund
The only debt-free province in Canada & the only province
with no Provincial Sales Tax (PST)
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