Well this is awkward, I'm having difficulty finding the source where I first learned of it. But I have found this nice booklet that collected a fair number of i

Well this is awkward, I'm having difficulty finding the source where I first learned of it. But I have found this nice booklet that collected a fair number of interesting first hand documents. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hWy-t0lnzSMC&lpg=PA35&ots=mcg8OnK6G4&dq=If%20Quebec%20separated%20does%20canada%20unravel&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=alberta&f=false https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hWy-t0lnzSMC&lpg=PA35&o... I'm certainly misremembering details, and can't afford to spend any more time on it now, but I distinctly recall some high level official (premier, governor, chairman, whatever) revealed in an interview many years after the fact they had seriously planed on cessation had the yes side won.