He taught and served as a principal at various schools in the County of Vermilion River from 1933 to 1952, when he left teaching to assume his duties as a cabinet minister.
[3] He ran for re-election in the 1952 Alberta general election and held his seat easily winning the two-way race.
[4] After the election Premier Ernest Manning appointed Aalborg to the Executive Council of Alberta as Minister of Education on September 9, 1952.
He slightly increased his popular vote over the last election easily defeating two other candidates to return to office.
[5] He ran for his sixth term in the 1967 Alberta general election and won the four-way race with another large majority.