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Encyclopedia Britannica



CALGARY

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 1004 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CALGARY , the oldest city in the province of
Alberta
 . Pop. (1901) 4091; (1907) 21,112. It is situated in 114 15' W., and 5142' N., on the Bow river, which flows with its crystal waters from the pass in the Rocky Mountains, by which the
main
  line of the Canadian Pacific railway crosses the Rocky Mountains. The pass properKananaskispenetrates the mountains beginning 40 M. west of Calgary, and the well-known watering-
place
 , Banff, lies 81 m. west of it, in the Canadian national park. The streets are wide and laid out on a rectangular
system
 . The buildings are largely of stone, the building stone used being the
brown
 
Laramie
 
sandstone
  found in the valley of the Bow river in the neighbourhood of the city. Calgary is an important point on the Canadian Pacific railway, which has a general
superintendent
 
resident
  here. It is an important centre of wholesale dealers, and also of industrial establishments. Calgary is near the site of Fort La Jonquiere founded by the
French
  in 1752. Old Bow fort was. a trading post for many years though now in ruins. The present city was created by the building of the Canadian Pacific railway about 1883.


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