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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

December

15

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On this day in Alberta

12 moments and Albertans connected to 15 December, spanning 1938 to 2001.

  • 8 born
  • 2 founded
  • 2 died
Month 12
  1. 2020

    Alberta's first COVID-19 vaccinations

    Health-care workers in Edmonton and Calgary received the province's first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine; respiratory therapist Sahra Kaahiye became the first Albertan immunized.

    CTV News Edmonton
  1. 1950
    Stampede CorralFounded

    former hockey arena in Calgary, Alberta Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data76 years ago today

  2. 1970

    provincial park in Alberta, Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data56 years ago today

Also on this date

  1. 1938

    Canadian sports shooter

    Read on Wikipediasource data88 years ago today

  2. 1948
    Jim EglinskiBorn

    Canadian politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data78 years ago today

  3. 1953
    Dan BacksBorn

    Canadian politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data73 years ago today

  4. 1971
    Dale BrownBorn

    Canadian boxer

    Read on Wikipediasource data55 years ago today

  5. 1974
    Bill BorgerBorn

    Canadian accountant

    Read on Wikipediasource data52 years ago today

  6. 1984

    Canadian curler

    Read on Wikipediasource data42 years ago today

  7. 1989
    Chris BaileyBorn

    Canadian writer

    Read on Wikipediasource data37 years ago today

  8. 1990
    James ReidBorn

    Canadian ice hockey goaltender

    Read on Wikipediasource data36 years ago today

  9. 1978
    Walter MackenzieDied

    Canadian surgeon (1909-1978)

    Read on Wikipediasource data48 years ago today

  10. 2001
    Ron VaccherDied

    Canadian football player

    Read on Wikipediasource data25 years ago today

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Compiled from Wikidata, whose data is released under CC0. Every entry links its Wikipedia article so you can check it. Nothing here is written by AI — each line is the label, description and date Wikidata holds, in a fixed format. That also means the coverage is Wikidata's: it leans heavily towards people with Wikipedia articles, and towards hockey. Alberta history is much larger than this page, which is why most days have no recorded event to lead with and the page says so rather than filling the space. Where a day opens with a highlighted entry above the timeline, that is a curated item: written, sourced to the page it links, and approved before it appeared here.