Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta. The roots of great prosperity were growing, despite the fact that politicians and the general public believed the West was best left to the trapper and trader.
Nurtured by a sense of vision and the sweat of good old-fashioned hard work, Calgary grew, and has now blossomed into a world-class cosmopolitan city noted for its burgeoning oil and gas industry, its famed Calgary Zoo, and of course, the Stampede.A Calgary Album is a sentimental journey into a cattle town that grew to be so much more. Through sixty-five glorious black and white photographs and engaging storytelling, the authors take the reader back to the time of the "real" cowboys, to the days when the streetcar seemed like science fiction, through the Depression, the great wars, the times of boom, bust, and recovery. We revisit the movers, the shakers, and the honourable everyday people who turned this "cow town" into a city worth bragging about.Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-139)
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.23/3802/0222
- General Note
- A Hounslow book Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-ab
- ISBN
- 0888822243 9781770700239
- LCCN
- F1079.5.C35
- LCCN Item number
- K69 2001eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (139 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00601214 (OCoLC)244770683 (CaOOCEL)410647
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Glimpses of the WayWe Were 1
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- Acknowledgements 8
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- The Spirit of the Pioneer Lives On 10
- Album 11
- Frontier Beginnings 12
- Album 13
- Album 14
- Album 16
- Shopping on the Frontier 17
- Album 18
- Album 19
- A Different Kind of Shopping Experience ... 20
- Album 21
- Cow-town Indeed 22
- A Bad Time to be a Rancher ... 23
- Album 24
- FIRE 25
- Album 26
- Album 27
- Album 28
- Album 29
- The Sandstone Era 30
- Album 31
- Riding the Rails 32
- Album 33
- Album 34
- Calgary Incorporated 35
- Album 36
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous 37
- Album 38
- Raise Your Spirits 39
- Album 40
- Album 41
- Working Women 42
- Album 43
- Album 44
- Album 45
- Album 46
- A Capital Idea 47
- School Spirit 48
- Album 49
- Album 50
- Album 51
- Album 52
- A Bridge to the Future ... 53
- Album 54
- An Explosive Show 55
- Album 56
- A Streetcar Named Disaster 57
- Album 58
- Calling All Carpenters 59
- Album 60
- Album 61
- The City Calgary Could Have Been 62
- Album 63
- Album 64
- YEE-HAW 65
- Album 66
- Album 67
- Album 68
- A Love of Leisure 69
- Album 70
- Album 71
- Album 72
- Album 73
- Secret of Success 74
- Album 75
- Album 76
- The Day It All Went Boom 77
- Album 78
- Album 79
- World War One 80
- Album 81
- Album 82
- Album 83
- Album 84
- The Battle Against Spirits 85
- Album 86
- Album 87
- The War is Over 88
- Album 89
- An Influential Woman 90
- Album 91
- Building Up Calgary 92
- Album 93
- Spirit of theWest 94
- Album 95
- Album 96
- Those Eccentric Artistic Types 97
- Album 98
- Here Comes the Flood 99
- Album 100
- Right to the Senate 101
- Album 102
- Business as Usual ... 103
- Album 104
- The Depression 105
- Album 106
- The Zoo that Goodwill Built ... 107
- Album 108
- Album 109
- The Countrys Biggest Birthday Cake 110
- Album 111
- Album 112
- A Return to Horse Power 113
- Album 114
- A Royal Visit 115
- Album 116
- World War Two 117
- Album 118
- Album 119
- Album 120
- Fuel for the Front 121
- Album 122
- Album 123
- Album 124
- The Pride of the Pigskin 125
- Album 126
- Album 127
- The Stampede Goes Hollywood 128
- Album 129
- Bovine Illiteracy in Cow Town 130
- Album 131
- The Sleepy Hollow School 132
- Album 133
- Album 134
- A Bright Idea 135
- Album 136
- Writing Off into the Sunset 137
- Album 138
- Bibliography 139
- Album 140
- About the Authors 141
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- Glimpses of the WayWe Were 146