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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

November

21

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

12 moments and Albertans connected to 21 November, spanning 1919 to 2017.

  • 7 born
  • 3 died
  • 2 founded
Month 11
  1. 1927

    CKUA signs on

    CKUA made its first broadcast from the University of Alberta's engineering building in Edmonton, becoming Canada's first public broadcaster and a pioneer of educational radio.

    Wikipedia
  1. 1932

    provincial park in Alberta, Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data94 years ago today

  2. 1932

    provincial park in Alberta, Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data94 years ago today

Also on this date

  1. 1919

    Canadian jazz singer and television host (1919–2024)

    Read on Wikipediasource data107 years ago today

  2. 1952
    John DemcoBorn

    Canadien compute scientist

    Read on Wikipediasource data74 years ago today

  3. 1959

    Canadian rower

    Read on Wikipediasource data67 years ago today

  4. 1973
    Jamie KingBorn

    Canadian curler

    Read on Wikipediasource data53 years ago today

  5. 1974

    Canadian rower

    Read on Wikipediasource data52 years ago today

  6. 1987

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data39 years ago today

  7. 1988
    Ben SaxtonBorn

    Canadian volleyball player

    Read on Wikipediasource data38 years ago today

  8. 1990
    Dean HartDied

    Canadian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and referee (1954-1990)

    Read on Wikipediasource data36 years ago today

  9. 2016

    Canadian Métis poet and author

    Read on Wikipediasource data10 years ago today

  10. 2017
    Hugh CurrieDied

    Canadian ice hockey defenceman (1925–2017)

    Read on Wikipediasource data9 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.