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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

February

19

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

12 Albertans share 19 February, spanning 1939 to 2026.

  • 9 born
  • 3 died
Month 2
  1. 1990

    Canada's first Family Day

    Alberta observed Canada's first Family Day statutory holiday on February 19, 1990, created under Premier Don Getty; Alberta remained the only province with a February stat holiday until Saskatchewan adopted the day in 2007.

    Wikipedia

Also on this date

  1. 1939

    Canadian football player

    Read on Wikipediasource data87 years ago today

  2. 1943
    Art HangerBorn

    Canadian politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data83 years ago today

  3. 1956
    Randy GreggBorn

    Canadian ice hockey defenceman

    Read on Wikipediasource data70 years ago today

  4. 1961
    Greg VavraBorn

    Canadian football player

    Read on Wikipediasource data65 years ago today

  5. 1968
    Rob DiMaioBorn

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data58 years ago today

  6. 1975

    former Canadian wheelchair basketball player

    Read on Wikipediasource data51 years ago today

  7. 1983

    Canadian curler

    Read on Wikipediasource data43 years ago today

  8. 1985
    J. D. LindBorn

    Canadian male curler and coach

    Read on Wikipediasource data41 years ago today

  9. 1994
    Brett WalshBorn

    American volleyball player

    Read on Wikipediasource data32 years ago today

  10. 1962
    Charles HolderDied

    Canadian politician (1874-1962)

    Read on Wikipediasource data64 years ago today

  11. 1996
    Ernest ManningDied

    Canadian politician (1908-1996)

    Read on Wikipediasource data30 years ago today

  12. 2026
    Bobbie SparrowDied

    Canadian politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data

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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.