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History of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Journey back in time to Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Visit Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1875 - Calgary, Canada founded
  Grew from Fort Calgary
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• 1883 - Canadian Pacific Railway reached Calgary
  
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• 1885 - July 2 - First issue of the daily, Calgary Herald, is published.
  
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•  1889 - Near Calgary, N. W. T., a freight train was precipitated down a mountain side on the 1st, and seven men were killed.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  February 9, 1889
  
  
• 1889 - St. Mary’s Cathedral established at Calgary
  
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  St. Mary's R.C. Church, Calgary, Alta.
  219 - 18th Ave. SW, Calgary, ALBERTA
  Established 1889
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•  1892 - A Calgary dispatch says:
  Wm. Morrison, a half-breed from the Red Deer country, was on Saturday sentenced at the supreme court to two years at Stony Mountain for...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Calgary, Alberta, incorporated as a city in 1894
  
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  Stephen Ave., Calgary, Alberta
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• 1909 - July 5 - First streetcars roll through Calgary
  
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  C.P.R. Station, Palliser Hotel, and 9the Ave., Calgary, Alta.
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  The Calgary Mining Co., Calgary, Alta.
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•  1913 - BURNS' ABATTOIR DESTROYED BY FIRE. BIG BLAZE AT CALGARY - LOSS IS OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
  (W.A.P. Report.)
  Calgary, Jan. 12. - One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Western Canada, occurred today when the large packing plant...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1916
  Cal'gary, a banking town and port of Canada, chief town of Alberta district, on the Bow and Elbow Rivers and on the main line of the Canadian Pacific ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Calgary
  Calgary, Alberta, incorporated as a city in 1894, population 1,239,220 (2016 c) 1,096,833 (2011 c). The city of Calgary is situated on the Bow River...Read MORE...