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Originally Posted by kalipygian  It was such a shock to learn that Alberta was not named after prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.  |
Right.
It was named after Princess Louise (Caroline Alberta), after whom Lake Louise was also named.
Her husband, Lord Lorne, one of our 19th C. Governors-General, was alleged to have been a 'friend of Dorothy,' in advance of the expression finding its current meaning.
I can assure you there are currently
no friends of Dorothy in the province of Alberta (I, for example, left decades ago), and the president of Iran will back me up.