![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen’s College which assured the success of the locale. The scope of the undertaking and the relative inaccessibility of its location cast some doubt on the enterprise and it was, in fact, the construction of what is now St. Rutherford himself secured the 258 acres of the Simpson farm - River Lot 5 - west of the Strathcona’s boundaries for the eventual institution. Edmonton had recently been declared the provincial capital giving Calgary great aspirations to be home to the provincial university, but the location for the U of A was instead chosen to be in Rutherford’s own constituency of the new city of Strathcona. Largely through the efforts of Alberta’s first premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the U of A was established as an act of the first legislative assembly of Alberta in 1906 and began operations in September 1908 out of Queen Alexandra School just off Whyte Avenue. ![]()
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