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The Alberta Golf Association was formed in 1907 to operate a provincial golf tournament and to promote the sport. Incorporation followed in 1912. As golf courses were established they joined the AGA. By the end of the 1980s there were approximately 30,000 individual members and 145 clubs in the AGA. On January 1, 2000 the Association merged with the Alberta Ladies Golf Association to create Alberta Golf.

The Alberta Highland Dancing Association, established in Calgary, was incorporated in 1937 to promote Scottish highland dancing and to hold competitions. In 1982 the name was changed to the Calgary Highland Dancing Association.

From approximately 1971 to 1984 the Historic Sites Service branch of the Alberta Department of Culture undertook a survey of Calgary buildings built prior to 1940, including houses, businesses, schools, public buildings, etc. The Calgary survey was part of a larger project conducted throughout Alberta, to build a database of information on the province's architectural heritage.

The Alberta Historical Preservation and Re-Building Society was founded in Calgary by Roseleen Heddinger and Susan Clark in August 1990. It was incorporated under the Alberta Societies Act in February 1991. The society's credo is to "preserve our past for the future". Its major projects have included lobbying to preserve the first home in Crescent Heights, the Cave and Basin swimming pool in Banff, Royal Doulton gargoyles on the Calgary Herald building, Brickburn and Lowry gardens, the Coste House carriage house, the McPherson farm, and the C.C. Matthews house. The society has also lobbied for improved legislation with respect to preserving heritage properties.

In the 1910s, home economics emerged as a discipline in the public schools of Edmonton and Calgary, and at the three provincial agricultural colleges in Alberta. In 1918 a Department of Household Economics (later Faculty of Home Economics) was established at the University of Alberta. The Edmonton Home Economics Association was organized in 1923, the Calgary Home Economics Association in 1934, the Alberta Home Economics Association in 1935, and the Canadian Home Economics Association in 1939. Since 1989 it has been recognized by the government of Alberta as the self-regulating body for the home economics profession. Its purpose is to promote high professional standards for home economists and to encourage their involvement in studying and responding to social issues affecting the well-being of Albertans. Its activities include preparing briefs and submissions regarding proposed government legislation, and providing career information, scholarships and professional development opportunities. The name of the organization was changed to the Alberta Home Ecology and Home Economics Association in the late 1990s. For further information see "What's Past is Prologue" : A History of Home Economics in Alberta / Norma Bannerman. - [Calgary?] : Alberta Home Economics Association, 1981; and Families, Farms & Home Economists : 50 Years of Partnership / Alice Major. - [Edmonton?] : Alberta Home Economics Association, 1993; and What's Past is Prologue III : A History of Home Economics in Alberta, 1980-2002 / Kathy Deyell & Donna Horton, eds. - Edmonton : Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association, 2003.

The Alberta Hotel, located at 808 - 1st Street SW in Calgary, Alberta, was built by T.S.C. Lee and Alfred Brealey. The building, in a Romanesque Revival style, opened in January 1890. It was a popular place for southern Alberta ranchers to stay, and future Prime Mininster R.B. Bennett lived on the 3rd floor. Charles Dangerfield, the last owner, closed the hotel during Prohibition (1916-1924), and the building later became an office and retail complex called Alberta Corner.