This is a list of National Historic Sites (french: Lieux historiques nationaux) in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

. As of March 2018, there are 61 National Historic Sites designated in Alberta, 16 of which are owned or administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon Beaver 1 (PSF)(retouched)(transparent)

). The first three sites in Alberta were designated in 1923: the site of rival trading posts Fort Augustus and

Fort Edmonton Fort Edmonton (also named Edmonton House) was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) from 1795 to 1914, all of which were located on the north banks of the North Saskatchewan River in what is now central Alberta, ...

, the site of the

Frog Lake Massacre The Frog Lake Massacre was part of the Cree uprising during the North-West Rebellion in western Canada. Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree men attacked officials, clergy and settlers in the small settlement of Frog Lake in the District of S ...

and the site of the first outpost of the North-West Mounted Police in

Western Canada Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada� ...

Fort Macleod Fort Macleod ( ) is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It was originally named Macleod to distinguish it from the North-West Mounted Police barracks (Fort Macleod, built 1874) it had grown around. The fort was named in honour of the then Commis ...

.Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada
Parks Canada Numerous National Historic Events also occurred across Alberta, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which marks National Historic Sites. Several National Historic Persons are commemorated throughout the province in the same way. This list uses names designated by the ''Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada'', which may differ from other names for these sites.

National Historic Sites

Former National Historic Sites in Alberta

See also

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