Racy brothers biography of alberta
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Brian Tracy
Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author
Brian Tracy is a Canadian-Americanmotivational public speaker and self-development author.[2][3] He is the author of over eighty books that have been translated into dozens of languages.[4] His popular books are Earn What You're Really Worth,[5]Eat That Frog!, No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline and The Psychology of Achievement.
Early life and education
[edit]Tracy was born 5 January 1944 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.
Career
[edit]Tracy is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Brian Tracy International, a company Tracy founded in 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia.[6] The company provides counseling on leadership, selling, self-esteem, goals, strategy, creativity, and success psychology.[7][8] It is headquarter
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The year 2012 marks the 150thanniversary of Alberta’s Victoria Settlement. In 1862 Methodist minister George McDougall established a mission at the “Hairy Bag” a buffalo feeding ground north of the North Saskatchewan River which was a favourite meeting place and camping site for Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years. The uppdrag was named Victoria in honour of the reigning British monarch. The Hudson’s Bay Company soon noted the activity of free traders in the vicinity and the large numbers of Aboriginals gathering at the mission and established Fort Victoria in 1864, a post which operated for more than three decades.
The uppdrag and trading post attracted several hundred English-speaking Métis (historically known as Mixed-bloods) from the Red River Settlement, in what fryst vatten now Manitoba, who established a permanent river lot settlement at Victoria. The river lot struktur was based upon the seigneurial system of New France. It consisted of long narrow river-front lots that provi
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Foreword
The design of this work is to give a readable and comprehensive view of the history of Alberta from the earliest times. The author has divided the history of the province into three periods. The first period will cover the early explorations and rule of the Fur Traders. The second period concerns rival fur companies, the Selkirk Purchase, etc.-1811-1821. The third period, which in many ways is the most wonderful of all, deals with the events since 1821—tells the story of the marvelous transformation of the Great Lone Land into the rich and populous Alberta of today.
The story is one of intense and instructive interest to the student of Canadian history. To trace the development of the political institutions of the newest province of the Dominion and compare it with the development of similar institutions in the older provinces of Canada, is an interesting study in comparative politics and highly illustrative of the manner in which responsibl