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Alberta is a province in Western Canada. Its landscape encompasses mountains, prairies, desert badlands and vast coniferous forests. It has more than 600 lakes, and rich mineral deposits. In the west, the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks have glaciers in the Columbia Icefields. The Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is a biosphere reserve that straddles the southern border with the USA.
Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. Princess Louise was the wife of John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, Governor General of Canada (1878–83). Lake Louise and Mount Alberta were also named in her honour. The name “Alberta” itself is a feminine Latinized form of the name Albert (cf. masculine Albertus in Medieval Latin) and its Germanic cognates, ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *Aþalaberhtaz (compound of “noble” + “bright/famous”).
Jasper’s Picturesque Town Centre | © Hayley Simpson 
Downtown Canmore | © Dave Bloggs007 
Legal’s natural beauty | © Wilson Hui 
In October, 1929, with the rebuilt Banff Springs Hotel in the background (the original wooden structure had burnt down three years earlier), three park visitors stand by their car and seem to speak with a man who appears be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (Photo: National Parks Branch / Library and Archives Canada / PA-057239) 
Yes, visitors to Banff were doing what they shouldn’t be doing in a national park (or anywhere else, for that matter) in 1951, the year Bill Gibbons captured this shot of two women feeding a black bear at Nuisance Grands, Banff National Park. (Photo: Library and Archives Canada; Government of Canada, e010948979-v8)
Tourist destinations in the province include:
Banff, Canmore, Drumheller, Jasper, Sylvan Lake and Lake Louise. Alberta is home to six UNESCO World Heritage Sites: The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Dinosaur Provincial Park, the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Waterton–Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, and Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi. The province has a predominantly humid continental climate, with stark contrasts over a year; but seasonal temperature average swings are smaller than in areas further east, due to winters being warmed by occasional chinook winds bringing sudden warming.