The Province of Buffalo was one of several proposals for the area of what would become
Alberta and
Saskatchewan. Haultain proposed the idea in 1904, stating that "One big province would be able to do things no other province could." At the time many
Calgarians and
Edmontonians disagreed with the proposal, since Haultain thought the capital of the new province should be Regina, with him as its first premier, but Edmonton and Calgary each had their own ambitions to be a capital city (Edmonton eventually becoming the capital of Alberta). Laurier eventually carved two provinces out of that section of the North-West Territories by dividing the land up with a north–south line at the 110 longitude. This created Alberta in the west, and Saskatchewan in the east. This dividing line was about where Yorkton NWT member
Thomas Alfred Patrick had envisioned it. In 2005
Canadian Geographic magazine ran a cover story, "How the West was divided", on Haultain's proposal. ==References==