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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

March

1

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

12 moments and Albertans connected to 1 March, spanning 1918 to 2009.

  • 9 born
  • 2 died
  • 1 founded
Month 3
  1. 1917

    Alberta Provincial Police take over

    The Alberta Provincial Police accepted policing duties for the province on March 1, 1917, taking over from the Royal North-West Mounted Police, which had been drawn down by the First World War; the APP patrolled Alberta until the RCMP absorbed provincial policing on April 1, 1932.

    Wikipedia — Alberta Provincial Police
  1. 1956

    provincial park in Alberta, Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data70 years ago today

Also on this date

  1. 1951
    Glen IrwinBorn

    Canadian ice hockey defenceman

    Read on Wikipediasource data75 years ago today

  2. 1952

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data74 years ago today

  3. 1955

    Canadian ice hockey defenceman

    Read on Wikipediasource data71 years ago today

  4. 1971
    Jason MillerBorn

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data55 years ago today

  5. 1973
    Ryan PeakeBorn

    Canadian guitarist

    Read on Wikipediasource data53 years ago today

  6. 1976

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data50 years ago today

  7. 1980

    Canadian politician (1980–2015)

    Read on Wikipediasource data46 years ago today

  8. 1982

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data44 years ago today

  9. 1990

    Canadian curler

    Read on Wikipediasource data36 years ago today

  10. 1918

    Canadian politician (1870-1918)

    Read on Wikipediasource data108 years ago today

  11. 2009
    Alf PikeDied

    Canadian ice hockey player (1917–2009)

    Read on Wikipediasource data17 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.