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Tom Monto

Anniversaries

Updated: Apr 15, 2023

2015 120th anniversary of the founding of Fort Edmonton, at Fort Saskatchewan

2015 80th anniversary of the election of the Aberhart Social Credit government


2016 100th anniversary of Equal Suffrage for men and women

2016 125th anniversary of the coming of the railway to Strathcona


2017 150th anniversary of Confederation


2018 100th anniversary of the ceasefire to end WWI. (Peace treaties signed in 1919)

2018 100th anniversary of the "Spanish flu" epidemic


2019 100th anniversary of the WGS


2020 May 5 5th anniversary of election of Rachel Notley's NDP government

2020 125th anniversary of the founding of Fort Edmonton (at Fort Saskatchewan)

2020 150th anniversary of the Prairies becoming part of Canada

2020 350th anniversary of founding of HBC


2021 50th anniversary of the election of the Alberta Conservatives

2021 100th anniversary of the election of the United Farmers of Alberta government, a

forerunner of the NDP,

and the longest-surviving farmer government elected anywhere in Canada

2021 70th anniversary of Polio outbreak in Alberta (see other blog)

130th anniversary of founding of Strathcona, with arrival of railway in 1891


2022 700th anniversary of death of Dante (1912, the 600th anniversary, was marked by series of lectures)

210th anniversary of Edmonton's founding as permanent centre, with building of Fort Edmonton (IV) in Rossdale. From 1812 on, there has been constant recorded human habitation in what is now Edmonton.


2024 120th anniversary of Edmonton becoming a city


2025 120th anniversary of Alberta becoming a province.


2026 100th anniversary of election of first Labour MLA in Edmonton


2027 160th anniversary of Confederation


Let's celebrate!

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