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Calgary: Calgary: Children's: Part of the Telus Spark, hands-on explorations of music, theater and visual arts Crowsnest Museum: Coleman: Rockies: History: website, pioneer and coal-mining life, period store and business displays. Extensive photo archive.
Jenny Belzberg was born in Calgary, Alberta.Her father, Abraham Lavin, was an immigrant from a small village in Russia and came to Canada in 1911 and established a farm in the Cochrane, Calgary area.
This article is a list of historic places in the Calgary Region, in Alberta, which have been entered into the national Register of Historic Places, which includes federal, provincial, and municipal properties. A few are in the national park system.
Concrete grain elevator in Alberta. Various factors affect the socio-economic characteristics of Canadian agriculture. The 2006 Census of Agriculture listed seven: [2] Quantity and type of farms; Biogeography: crop and land use areas; land management practices; Quantity of livestock and poultry; Agricultural engineering: Farm machinery and equipment; Farm capital; Farm operating expenses and ...
Canadian Pacific Railway 0-6-0 no.2024 at Heritage Park. The park is divided into four distinct areas reflecting different time periods in Western Canadian history: the Hudson's Bay Company Fur Trading Fort, c. 1864; the Pre-Railway Settlement Village, c. 1880; the Railway Prairie Town, c. 1910; and Heritage Plaza (opened 2009), depicting the 1920s to 1950s.
Pearce Estate Park is a city park located in Calgary, Alberta.The park occupies 21 hectares (52 acres; 0.21 km 2) along the Bow River to the east of downtown Calgary.The park contains Pearce Estate Wetland, described as "constructed wetlands filled with native plants and animals".
John Walter Grant MacEwan OC AOE (August 12, 1902 – June 15, 2000) was a Canadian farmer, professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Dean of Agriculture at the University of Manitoba, the 28th Mayor of Calgary and both a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, Canada.
He grew up on his family's farm and attended a small rural school. He left high school in the middle of grade 11 at the age of 17. [3] He moved to Alberta, where he took a job in Calgary with Rosco Steel. For three years Liepert returned to the family farm to help with the crop, but he became disillusioned with farming and he moved to Calgary ...