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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

June

23

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

6 Albertans share 23 June, spanning 1931 to 2011.

  • 4 born
  • 2 died
Month 6
  1. 1887

    Banff becomes Canada's first national park

    The Rocky Mountains Park Act made the Banff hot springs reserve Canada's first national park — only the third in the world at the time.

    The Canadian Encyclopedia

Also on this date

  1. 1931
    Don BarryBorn

    Canadian football player

    Read on Wikipediasource data95 years ago today

  2. 1936

    Canadian politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data90 years ago today

  3. 1963

    wife of Stephen Harper

    Read on Wikipediasource data63 years ago today

  4. 1997

    ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data29 years ago today

  5. 1998
    Leonard JonesDied

    Canadian politician (1924–1998)

    Read on Wikipediasource data28 years ago today

  6. 2011
    Gaye DelormeDied

    Canadian musician

    Read on Wikipediasource data15 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.