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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

March

25

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

12 moments and Albertans connected to 25 March, spanning 1913 to 2014.

  • 8 born
  • 3 died
  • 1 founded
Month 3
  1. 1913

    Red Deer becomes a city

    Red Deer was incorporated as a city on March 25, 1913, having been a town since June 1901, as central Alberta's rail hub neared a population of 2,500.

    City of Red Deer — Facts and Trivia
  1. 1913
    Red DeerFounded

    city in Alberta, Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data113 years ago today

Also on this date

  1. 1955
    Pat HughesBorn

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data71 years ago today

  2. 1967
    Greg ParksBorn

    Canadian ice hockey player (1967–2015)

    Read on Wikipediasource data59 years ago today

  3. 1985

    Canadian reality television participant

    Read on Wikipediasource data41 years ago today

  4. 1988
    Justin AmmarBorn

    Canadian soccer player

    Read on Wikipediasource data38 years ago today

  5. 1988
    Bo AdebayoBorn

    Canadian football player

    Read on Wikipediasource data38 years ago today

  6. 1990
    Lance BoumaBorn

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data36 years ago today

  7. 1990

    Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)

    Read on Wikipediasource data36 years ago today

  8. 1994

    Canadian curler

    Read on Wikipediasource data32 years ago today

  9. 1995
    Hiroomi UmezawaDied

    physicist (1924–1995)

    Read on Wikipediasource data31 years ago today

  10. 2013
    Wayne FlemingDied

    ice hockey coach (1950-2013)

    Read on Wikipediasource data13 years ago today

  11. 2014
    Jon LordDied

    Canadian politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data12 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.