The District of Alberta and three other provisional
districts of the North-West Territories were created 8 May, 1882. It was styled the
Alberta Provisional District to distinguish it from the
District of Keewatin which had a more autonomous relationship from the NWT administration. The modern province of Alberta was created 1 September, 1905 from the District of Alberta and parts of the
Districts of Athabasca,
Assiniboia and
Saskatchewan. The boundaries of the district were: • On the south, the international boundary,
49° north. • On the east, the line between the 10th and 11th ranges west of the fourth meridian of the
Dominion Land Survey. This line, now designated Range Road 110, has jogs at each correction line. It crosses
Highway 16 between
Innisfree and
Minburn and
Highway 1 between
Tilley and
Suffield. • On the north, the 18th correction line, approximately
55° north, now designated Township Road 710. • On the west, the British Columbia boundary: the height of land of Pacific Ocean drainage and the
120th meridian west. The District of Alberta was used as a
federal riding from 1887 to 1908. ==See also==