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The city of Calgary is situated on the Bow River in southern Alberta, about 220 km north of the American border at the meeting point of the Western prairies and mountain foothills.
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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 - St. Mary’s Cathedral established at Calgary
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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.
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February 9, 1889
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...
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Calgary, Alberta, incorporated as a city in 1894
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1909 - July 5 - First streetcars roll through Calgary
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1913 - BURNS' ABATTOIR DESTROYED BY FIRE. BIG BLAZE AT CALGARY - LOSS IS OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
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Calgary, Jan. 12. - One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Western Canada, occurred today when the large packing plant... Read MORE...
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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...
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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...
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