Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Glenbow Museum's collection includes a number of artifacts from around the world. Its collection is sorted into Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. [37] The museum's African collection contains over 5,000 artifacts, most of which was acquired in the 1960s.
The Centennial Planetarium, located at 701 11 Street SW in Calgary, Alberta, was designed by Calgary architectural firm McMillan Long and Associates and opened in 1967 for the Canadian Centennial, it is one of Calgary's best examples of Brutalist architecture, winning several awards open its opening.
By contrast Calgary conducted a pilot project on curbside recycling in 1991 and then abandoned curbside collection for a drop-off system until a second pilot program in 2004, [10] [11] and currently collects recyclates only at private houses, with no plans to introduce collection at condo and apartment buildings before 2015. [12]
The following is an incomplete list of annual festivals and cultural events in Calgary and the Calgary Region, in the province of Alberta, Canada.. This list includes festivals of diverse types, such as regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
The Calgary Public Library (CPL) is a distributed library system featuring 22 branch locations including the Central Library. [1] As of 2012, it is the second most used system in Canada (after the Toronto Public Library ) [ 2 ] and the sixth most used library system in North America. [ 3 ]
The new fitness centre was named the Dr. Neville Lindsay Sport Wellness Centre to honour Calgary's first doctor, who owned the land upon which the facility sits. The new aquatic centre was named The Calgary Foundation Aquaplex, to recognize and celebrate the contributions of The Calgary Foundation through a major gift from an anonymous donor.
The 2024 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 11 to 14 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. [1] The event was held in a triple-knockout format with a purse of $45,000. [2]
Downtown Calgary is a dense urban district in central Calgary, Alberta. It contains the second largest concentration of head offices in Canada, despite only being the country's fourth largest city in terms of population. [ 4 ]