Dentist, 1904-1985. Dr. Ahrens was a graduate in dentistry from the University of Alberta (DDS, 1927) and Northwestern University (1940). He served in the Canadian Dental Corps and was an active member of the Canadian Dental Association and the Alberta Dental Association. He was active in visits to rural Alberta schools, teaching dental hygiene to children and their parents.
Creator of "Know Canada?" (1966), a Canadian history trivia board game.
AACES began as the Alberta Advisory Committee on Educational Research in 1954 but became the Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies in 1966. Its original membership consisted of the University's Faculty of Education, the Alberta Department of Education, the Alberta Teacher's Association, the Alberta School Trustees Association (ASTA) and the Alberta Federation of Home and School Associations (HSA). ASTA and HSA dropped out of the Advisory Committee during the 1980s, while the Universities of Calgary (1966) and Lethbridge (1987) have since joined. The aim of AACES is to finance research in educational studies. To assist in the dissemination of research results it publishes the Alberta Journal of Educational Research and the Journal of Educational Thought.
The Alberta Agricultural Alumni Association consisted of graduates of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Alberta. It organized social events and published a newsletter, the 4A News.
Originally formed in 1905 and incorporated in 1947 as Alberta Agricultural Fairs Association. In 1952, its name was changed to Alberta Agricultural Societies Association [AASA]. In 1973, its name was changed again to Alberta Association of Agricultural Societies [AAAS].
Organization founded in 1989 to support the long-term success of Albertan canola farmers.
The Alberta Department of Public Works was established on September 1, 1905 in part of the Alberta Act. It was officially created by Alberta legislation in 1906 when the Public Works Act repealed the Public Works Ordinance. The duties, functions and structure of the Department of Public Works stayed unchanged, as allowed by the new legislation.
The Department of Public Works was responsible for the management of a long list of utilities and maintenance including heating, lighting, construction, repairs of government buildings, among many others. Legislation defined public works as property of the Crown and controlled by the department; this included all land, watercourses, streams and any acquired property for public works.
The Department was set up in a hierarchical structure. When it began it contained five branches including Correspondence, Accountants, Surveys, Engineering and Local Improvement. Over time the department included branches and sections related to operations, regulations, creation, and the maintenance of highways, mining, and employment. Legislation reorganized the Department in 1951 into two branches, Buildings and Mechanical. The Department again restructured in 1960 into six divisions, Architecture, Works and Maintenance, Construction, Maintenance, Mechanical, and Administrative Accounting. In 1966 the administrative division moved to outside the three main divisions, Utilities Services, Design and Construction, and Maintenance Services. Before the dissolution of the department in 1975 there were 5 major divisions.
The Department of Public Works was divided in a government wide reorganization into the Department of Housing and Public Works and Department of Government Services. The Alberta Government Services was responsible for the elements of former Public Works Department concerned with operations and maintenance.
On June 25,1975 the Department of Public Works dissolved when the Department of Public Works Acts was repealed by the Department of Government Services Act. The Department of Government Services merged with the functions of public works from the Department of Housing and Public Works in 1982 to create the Department of Public Works, Supply, and Services.
The Alberta Fitness Leadership Certification Association (AFLCA) facilitates the training and certification of fitness leaders and trainers in Alberta. Established in 1984, the association was founded by representatives of fitness agencies who were concerned with the consistency of fitness leadership in Alberta. The delivery of fitness leadership programs is through these agencies, under the guidelines of the AFLCA and its Board of Directors. The AFLCA is an agency-based, not-for-profit association whose operations benefit the represented agencies that deliver the AFLCA training programs. These agencies, in turn, represent their fitness leaders. The AFLCA adopted the guidelines put forth in 1984 by the National Fitness Leadership Advisory Committee (NFLAC). Performance standards were subsequently developed to recommend minimum competencies desired in the trained fitness leader. In 1989, the results of the comprehensive survey of leaders, trainers and agencies led the AFLCA towards the development of a new program model, which included more specialized areas of fitness training and more variety in courses for leaders to explore and agencies to administer. The mandate of AFLCA is to establish and implement specific standards and guidelines that organizations can follow for the training of their fitness leaders, to certify those leaders who have been trained and through that training have met the standards and guidelines established by the Association and to coordinate the standards and guidelines established by the National Fitness Leadership Advisory Committee (NFLAC) and to adjust these standards and guidelines to be most suitable for the fitness leaders of Alberta.
The Alberta Geographical Society was founded in 1964, with William C. Wonders from the University of Alberta Department of Geography as organizing chairman and Janusz J. Klawe as chairman of the program committee.
The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) was established by the Government of Alberta in 1980 to support biomedical and health research at Alberta universities, affiliated institutions, and other medical and technology-related institutions. Operating funds come from a portion of the interest revenue from a Government endowment, with an initial investment of $300 million. AHFMR supports more than 200 senior researchers recruited from Alberta and around the world, and approximately 350 researchers-in-training. Since 1980, AHFMR has supported more than 8500 positions, providing unprecedented opportunities for research careers. AHFMR is governed by a Board of Trustees with representatives from the universities, the medical profession and the general public. AHFMR is headed by a President who is the CEO. The Board of Trustees are advised by an international Scientific Advisory Council and other groups, including committees of researchers who assess applications for awards. AHFMR reports to the people of Alberta through the Minister of Innovation and Science but is arms-length from government. Every six years an International Board of Review assesses AHFMR Programs and submits a report to AHFMR and the Government of Alberta.
The AIA began in 1920 as the Northern and Southern Locals of the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturalists. The national organization became the Agricultural Institute of Canada in 1945, and in 1947 the Alberta Government passed the Agrologists Act, which conferred professional status on agrologists under the regulation of the new Alberta Institute of Agrologists. The AIA's mandate is to maintain professional standards for agrology and to communicate to the government and to the public its concerns regarding its profession, agricultural education and research, and the role of agriculture and agrology in the community.
The Institute of Pedology, with headquarters at the University, was organized in 1968. The Institute consists of all pedologists in the Soil Science Department of the University, the Terrain Sciences Department of the Alberta Research Council and the Alberta Pedology Unit of the Land Resources Research Centre, Agriculture Canada. The Institute is involved in coordinating work in the following fields: soil survey in Alberta, research in pedology, interpretation of basic data on Alberta soils and assistance and/or cooperation from other institutions concerned with pedological data (Calendar, 1990/91). The Institute is directed by the Technical Coordinating Committee. The Chair of the Soil Science Department of the University is ex officio Chair of the Technical Coordinating Committee.