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Fort Calgary was a North-West Mounted Police outpost at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in present-day Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Originally named Fort Brisebois , after the outpost's first commander, the outpost was renamed Fort Calgary in June 1876.
The Society was incorporated on December 10, 1963. The land that Heritage Park is located on is owned by the City of Calgary. The Heritage Park Foundation Board, incorporated on March 17, 1976, is responsible for the stewardship of the Park's endowment funds and is elected by up to 200 members of the Heritage Park Foundation.
Azrieli Foundation: $1 billion [2] (2014) British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation: $362 million (2015) Calgary Foundation: $750 million Canada Foundation for Innovation: Canadian Race Relations Foundation: Claridge Foundation: $45 million (2014) Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta: $26 million (2016) [3]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) As of March 2018, there are 61 National Historic Sites in the province of Alberta, 16 of which are owned or administered by Parks Canada. The first three sites in Alberta were designated in 1923: the site of rival trading posts Fort Augustus and Fort ...
Statue of Sam Livingston, placed in Calgary's airport. The plate states "Sam Livingston, Calgary's first citizen". Samuel Henry Harkwood Livingston (4 February 1831 – 4 October 1897) born in Ireland, he came to Canada following an unsuccessful venture in the Californian gold rush of 1849, and eventually found his way to Jumping Pound, North-West Territories, in 1873 where he opened a trading ...
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.
It was founded as the Alberta Art Foundation in 1972 as a result of an act passed by the Government of Alberta that year. However, the organizations that form the core of what is now the Alberta Foundation for the Arts date to 1946 when Alberta formalized support of arts and culture. [ 1 ]
Capital grants have helped to fund several facilities throughout Canada, most notably in Calgary and Winnipeg. [20] Thirty percent of the grants go to McGill University. Max Bell Foundation has funded charities in a variety of areas since its inception, and currently focuses its grants on health, environment, education, and democracy and civic ...