This is not the website of the Alberta Angus Association. This site is an independent educational reference about Angus cattle in Alberta. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, connected to or authorised by the Alberta Angus Association, the Canadian Angus Association, or any breeder, ranch or business referred to in the historical record. For the association itself — membership, current officers, official contact details and current event dates — see the Canadian Angus Association's page for the Alberta Angus Association.
What this site is
A reference on Angus cattle in Alberta: the breed's documented history in Canada from 1859 onward, the founding of a provincial association in 1917, what the breed is selected for, how the purebred sector is organised, how the show and sale year runs, what the junior and 4-H programmes do, how the province's regions differ, and how Angus genetics relate to what ends up on a plate.
What this site is not
- Not a membership or breeder directory. We publish no member names, farm names, addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses. Anyone looking for Alberta Angus breeders should go to the national association.
- Not an official source. Nothing here is an association statement. Rules, fees, membership terms and event dates are set by the associations, not by us, and we do not track them.
- Not a current events calendar. Our show-and-sale page describes the annual cycle in general terms. No date on this site is a current-season date.
- Not a commercial service. We sell nothing, register nothing, and represent no one.
- Not a republication of personal tributes. The historical site carried biographical and memorial citations for named individuals. Those belong to the families and the association concerned and are not reproduced here.
How the historical material was handled
Where this site restores historical content — principally the breed's arrival in Canada and the 1917 founding of the provincial association on our history page — it does so from the published historical record, which the original site credited to the Canadian Angus Association and to Canadian Angus History Update by Lloyd Pickard. The 1917 and 1918 officer lists are reproduced as a matter of documented public record. No biography, credential or claim has been added to anyone beyond what that record contains.
Why the domain changed hands
This domain previously hosted the Alberta Angus Association's own website, which went offline after 2022. Domains lapse for ordinary reasons — a volunteer administrator changes, a renewal notice goes to an address nobody reads any more, an organisation moves its web presence elsewhere. What follows a lapse is less ordinary: by late 2024 this address was serving unrelated commercial spam pages placed by whoever held it then. None of that material appears on this site and none of it was used in building it.
Because the association is still operating, restoring the old site as though it were still theirs would be misleading: a visitor would take the membership terms, the contact details and the event dates as current and authoritative. Rebuilding the address as an independent reference on the same subject keeps the historical URLs working and the topic intact without pretending to be an organisation we are not.
Accuracy and corrections
General reference material about a living industry goes out of date. Where this site describes how something works, it describes the general pattern, and the associations and agencies linked throughout are the authorities on the specifics. If something here is wrong, the authoritative sources listed on our organisations page should be preferred over anything written here.
Sources used throughout
Technical and statistical material on these pages draws on the Canadian Angus Association, the Beef Cattle Research Council, the Canadian Beef Grading Agency, Government of Alberta agriculture and Statistics Canada. Each is linked in context on the relevant page.