June
28
Alberta almanac
On this day in Alberta
10 Albertans share 28 June, spanning 1915 to 2013.
- 9 born
- 1 died
1926
Alberta pioneers the ranked ballot
Albertans re-elected Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta government in the province's first general election run entirely on ranked ballots — single transferable vote in the cities and alternative vote in rural ridings — the first such election anywhere in Canada.
Wikipedia — 1926 Alberta general election ↗
Also on this date
- 1915
- 1940
- 1948
- 1950
- 1959
- 1975
- 1980
- 1985
- 1987
- 2013
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.