Facts about Alberta : compiled for the use and interest of visiting tourists / issued ... by the Government of Alberta.

These Facts Will Help Us to Become Better Acquainted Hard-surfaced, dustless highways now connect the highway systems of the United States with Sunny Alberta's mountain wonderland in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.They run from Waterton Park, which adjoins Glacier National Park in Montana, to the Banff National Park.They extend northward to Edmonton with only a short section of surfacing to he completed this (1939) summer.Surfacing of the highway from Edmonton to Jasper is under way and the scenic highway through the mountains from Lake Louise to Jasper is to he completed this season.Even now, motorists may travel northward from Lake Louise to heyond the North Saskatchewan River and southward from Jasper to heyond the Columbia icefield, source of three mighty riversthe Columbia, Mackenzie andSaskatchewansystems, each pouring its waters into a different ocean, the Pacific, Arctic and the Atlantic respectively.Famedthroughout the world for its majestic scenic grandeur, Alherta is also associated in the minds of persons far removed with political and economic re- form and, quite understandahly, this is one of the fea- tures that attracts large numbers of visitors.They come to Alberta to learn for themselves how Premier William Aherhart's Social Credit Government is working out.To understand the unique political situation in Al- berta, the visitor must first consider Alherta' s geographic and economic position.This province, rich in minerals and oil, her farms famous for the production of the world's champion grains, her livestock industry rivalling those of the United States and the Argentine, and her waterways and forests yielding unlimited sup- plies of power and timher, was, despite these vast natural resources, a land ridden with poverty, over- burdened with public and private deht and struggling to maintain, in an area as large as the New England states, highways, telephones, railways, and other puhlic services for a population no larger than that of an average mid-western American city.To make things worse, a terrihle hlunder had been made in the days of early settlement in Alherta.Her southern plains, fanned hy the mild dry warmth of Chinook winds, drained of their moisture while cross- ing the Rockies from the Pacific Ocean and the Japanese Current, were verdant with rich native grasses which, for centuries, had fed countless herds of "buffalo.These prairies, in their natural state, were a paradise of pasture land which, hecause of the Chinooks, seldom experienced the severe rigors of northland winters.

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