ARCHIVED - The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905 - The Canadian West - Exhibitions

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The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan

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The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan

1905

When Saskatchewan and Alberta were created in 1905, Saskatchewan became Canada's third largest province, Manitoba remained the fourth largest, and Alberta became the fifth largest. Winnipeg was already the third largest city in Canada and would remain so for nearly a half century.

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This rare 1905 map was published by the Department of the Interior - the federal government's main mapping agency - on the eve of the creation of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This realignment of Canada's internal borders had caught the department somewhat by surprise. In order to have an up-to-date map showing the new boundaries, the department's map office took a map published two years earlier and simply overprinted the new borders. This time-saving move gave the department a few months to draft and print a completely new map the following year.