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  2. Fort Calgary - Wikipedia

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    Hunt House in 2018. It is the oldest building located in Calgary. The Hunt House is the oldest building in Calgary still located on its original site, 890 Ninth Avenue S.E. It was built between 1876 and 1881 for Métis employees of the Hudson's Bay Company store located at 8th Street and 9th Avenue SE. The style of the original log building ...

  3. Military in Calgary - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Alberta - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Battalion Park - Wikipedia

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    Battalion Park is a geoglyph site in southwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada.It is on Signal Hill, overlooking the Tsuu T'ina Nation (formerly Sarcee Nation), as well as lands formerly known as Camp Sarcee and later Sarcee Training Area, a military reserve used by the Canadian Forces from before the First World War up until the 1990s.

  6. List of forts - Wikipedia

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    Bermuda had around 90 coastal defense forts and batteries [1] scattered all over the island chain. Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns.

  7. The World Today (TV news programme) - Wikipedia

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    The World Today, styled also as The World Today with Maryam Moshiri is a news programme that premiered on both UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 21 February 2024. The programme is mainly hosted by Maryam Moshiri. The show, dedicated to international news is said to "bring the best of the BBC's global journalism to audiences ...

  8. Timeline of Alberta history - Wikipedia

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    This location was thought to be on the route of the transcontinental railway (CPR) expected to be built a few years later. But the route selected was through southern Alberta instead. September 1875 NWMP officer Éphrem-A. Brisebois establishes Fort Brisebois, at present site of Calgary. James Macleod renames it Fort Calgary in 1876. [14 ...

  9. List of Canadian Pickers episodes - Wikipedia

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    While in Quebec, the guys pick through a prolific collector's home, garage, and bar located in Hudson and marvel over two stunning rocking horses over 100 years old. Later, Scott raids a Star Wars collector's treasure chest. Finally, the guys crash a high-society antique show where they prove they can wheel and deal with the champagne set.