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Prince Albert

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Prince Albert city (1991 pop. 34,181), central Sask., Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River. Prince Albert is a commercial and distribution center for a lumbering, gold- and uranium-mining, and mixed-farming area. There are wood-products and meatpacking industries. It was founded in 1866 as a Presbyterian mission to the Cree . It is the gateway to Prince Albert National Park, to the northwest. The city is the seat of Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals and headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for central and N Saskatchewan, as well as the site of the provincial penitentiary.

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Prince Albert

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Prince Albert, Antarctica, Canada, South Africa 1. Antarctica: mountains discovered between 1839 and 1843 and named after Prince Albert (1819–61), consort of Queen Victoria^†.2. Canada (Saskatchewan): founded in 1866 as a Presbyterian mission station and named after the same Prince Albert.3. South Africa (Western Cape): founded in 1843 and named after the same Prince Albert.

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