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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

September

8

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

6 moments and Albertans connected to 8 September, spanning 1959 to 2022.

  • 3 born
  • 2 founded
  • 1 died
Month 9

  1. 2016

    Rogers Place opens

    Rogers Place, the downtown arena built to replace Northlands Coliseum as home of the Edmonton Oilers, held its official opening ceremony, with owner Daryl Katz, Mayor Don Iveson and Wayne Gretzky on hand.

    Rogers Place (official arena site) — Timeline ↗
  1. 2001
    Foote FieldFounded

    stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data25 years ago today

  2. 2016
    Rogers PlaceFounded

    multi-use indoor arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data10 years ago today

Also on this date

  1. 1959
    Loni KlettlBorn

    Olympic alpine skier

    Read on Wikipediasource data67 years ago today

  2. 1972
    Sonia ArrisonBorn

    American author

    Read on Wikipediasource data54 years ago today

  3. 1975
    Derek HeidtBorn

    Canadian snowboarder

    Read on Wikipediasource data51 years ago today

  4. 2022
    Bibijana Čujec DobovišekDied

    Slovenian physicist

    Read on Wikipediasource data4 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.