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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 electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary re-distribution out of Calgary-East and named after the historical Fort Calgary.. The riding had significant changes in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution, and was expanded to meet the new boundaries of the City of Calgary and gained some rural portions that had belonged to Foothills-Rocky View.
Between the time Fort Calgary was established in 1875 and the incorporation of the town of Calgary in 1884, the only formal military presence was the NWMP garrison of Fort Calgary. The Northwest Rebellion prompted the creation of a Citizen's Home Guard consisting of volunteers dressed in cowboy garb who paraded as a show of force for the ...
1875 – Originally named Fort Brisebois, after NWMP officer Éphrem-A. Brisebois, it was renamed Fort Calgary by Colonel James Macleod. 1877 – Treaty 7 is signed, and title to the Fort Calgary area is ceded to the Crown. 1882 - First sawmill on the Bow River. [2] 1883 – The Canadian Pacific Railway reached the area and a rail station was ...
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 ...
Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta.It is the largest metro area within the three prairie provinces.As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
Brisebois was born 7 March 1850 at South Durham, Canada East, now Durham-Sud. [1] He was fluently bilingual in English and French. At 15, he dropped out of school to fight for the Union Army in the American Civil War and went on to spend a further three years serving in Italy with the volunteer unit "Devils of the Good Lord".
The Calgary and Edmonton Trail was a land transport route between Fort Edmonton and Fort Calgary in the Northwest Territories. Prior to European contact , there was already a route through the area that local Indigenous peoples used to travel between the Shortgrass Prairies in the south to the Aspen Parkland in the north.