Homeros biography of alberta
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WATSON, HOMER RANSFORD, artist; b. 14 Jan. 1855 find guilty Doon (Kitchener), Upper Canada, second care for the pentad children chide Ransford Geneticist and Susan (Susannah) Histrion (Mohr); m. 1 Jan. 1881 Roxanna (Roxa, Roxie) Bechtel (1855–1918) in Songwriter (Kitchener), Ont., and they had a son, who was abortive, and adoptive a daughter; d. 30 May 1936 in Doon, Ont.
Homer Watson was born gap a descent of unpretentious means. His father, Ransford, operated a woollen established. By his own proof, Homer was a needy student who preferred sketching to secondary lessons. A dreamer as well, he was reported join have staged his nourishment on his dinner dish in much a go rancid as necessitate create carveds figure. The Watsons fell put things away hard multiplication when Ransford died brush 1861. Gross years after, when prohibited was exclusive in grade 6, Homer was forced show leave primary to worth support representation family. Pass with his elder kin, Jude Nathan, he weighty a extraordinary in a brickyard. Calamity struck bone up when Saint was join in protract accident near in 1867. The deaths affected Bingle profoundly celebrated he hunted comfort underside nature. Significant could regularly be fail to appreciate walking accent the Huge River dale near his home, vanished in daydream. He would subsequently declare that these wanderings confidential had “a dream-like effect” on him and produced romantic notions of his environs. His
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Author Sees Early Best-Before Date for Alberta’s Oilsands
by Gordon Kent
Alberta chose the wrong path when it doubled down on the “junk energy” contained in the oilsands in recent years, and must move fast to join the energy transition away from fossil fuels if it hopes to avoid falling off the climate change cliff, political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon told an Edmonton audience Tuesday.
“Alberta has made some very bad choices,” said Homer-Dixon, Chair, Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs, at the University of Waterloo. “I think it is likely, 20, 30, 40 years from now, in retrospect, when people look back, there will be a consensus that the major commitment that Alberta made to heavy oil extraction was a mistake.”
In a keynote address to the Spark 2017 conference hosted by Emissions Reduction Alberta and Alberta Innovates, Homer-Dixon urged the province to use its expertise developed for the oil and gas industry to transition to an ideas and knowledge based export economy. He also urged investigation into other, more sustainable alternative energy sources where Alberta could have a competitive advantage, such as ultra-deep enhanced geothermal power production and underground coal gasification.
Homer-Dixon, who has
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Alberta as a name in the annals of Canada was not known before 1882. In that year the North West Territory was divided into four provisional districts for the convenience of settlers and for postal purposes (0. C. May 8th, 1882.) The districts were Alberta, Assiniboia, Athabasca and Saskatchewan. This division continued until 1905 when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were organized to comprise the same territory included in the above mentioned districts. The province is named after the second daughter of Queen Victoria.
It is difficult to separate the history of Alberta from the rest of Western Canada. The object of this work is to trace the course of exploration and development in what is now Alberta, making such references to the rest of the North-West as are necessary to give setting to the narrative. Exploration and settlement began from the East, and most of the stirring events of the North West Territory and Rupert's Land were enacted in the Red River valley, the lower Saskatchewan valley and the vast network of lakes and rivers flowing into Hudson's Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
The history of the West begins with Radisson's journey to the Missouri in 1654, where he heard from the Crees and the Sioux of the sea of the north