Of more than 500,000 voters registered, 285,372 favored the creation of the province, and 8,802 voted against it.
The plebiscite was held on December 13, 2008 and the result was a slight majority rejecting the creation of the province.
A second referendum later in the year gave the final approval to the creation of the new province.
This riding was created in 1871 following the creation of the province of Manitoba in 1870.
The electoral district was created during the creation of the province and used from the 1905 Alberta general election.
The following year, with the creation of the new province of Longjiang, he was transferred to become governor of that province.
Following the creation of the province of Alberta in 1905, the riding was located in that province.
This was reaffirmed, over a century and a half later with the creation of the first tribal province in independent India, Jharkhand.
These municipalities were established long before the creation of the province.
It was the first town that altered its name since the creation of the province in 1850.