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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

January

11

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

12 Albertans share 11 January, spanning 1877 to 2015.

  • 8 born
  • 4 died
Month 1
  1. 1911

    Alberta's coldest recorded day

    Fort Vermilion recorded about −61°C, the coldest official temperature in Alberta's history and among the lowest ever measured in Canada outside the Yukon.

    The Canadian Encyclopedia

Also on this date

  1. 1917
    John RobartsBorn

    Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (1917-1982)

    Read on Wikipediasource data109 years ago today

  2. 1941

    Canadian politician (1941-2020)

    Read on Wikipediasource data85 years ago today

  3. 1955
    Jim WychBorn

    Canadian snooker player and sport announcer

    Read on Wikipediasource data71 years ago today

  4. 1981

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data45 years ago today

  5. 1981

    Canadian rower

    Read on Wikipediasource data45 years ago today

  6. 1981
    Sean HorlorBorn

    Canadian poet

    Read on Wikipediasource data45 years ago today

  7. 1992
    Mark PysykBorn

    Canadian ice hockey defenceman

    Read on Wikipediasource data34 years ago today

  8. 1995
    Tofa FakunleBorn

    Canadian professional soccer player

    Read on Wikipediasource data31 years ago today

  9. 1877
    Sweet GrassDied

    cree chief

    Read on Wikipediasource data149 years ago today

  10. 1981
    Georges BugnetDied

    Canadian writer (1879–1981)

    Read on Wikipediasource data45 years ago today

  11. 2009
    Daryl SeamanDied

    Canadian sports businessman (1922-2009)

    Read on Wikipediasource data17 years ago today

  12. 2015
    Vera StrodlDied

    WWII pilot and flight instructor

    Read on Wikipediasource data11 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.