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    A Calgary Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were
    A Calgary Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were
    A Calgary Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were
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    A Calgary Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were

    By Mark Kozub and Janice Kozub

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateFeb 22, 2001
    ISBN9781550028973
    A Calgary Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were
    Author

    Mark Kozub

    Mark Kozub is an experienced freelance magazine writer for a wide variety of publications, ranging in focus from business to arts and entertainment. Janice Kozub is a professional freelance writer and speech writer for the Government of Alberta.

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      The Spirit of the Pioneer Lives On

      THERE IS SOMETHING WE LEARNED WHILE researching and writing this book. With our cushy Friday nights of Chinese take-out and videos, our generation has lost the rough grit that characterised the settlers of Alberta. Sad, but true. While the twenty-first century arrives fraught with its own unique forms of stress (pollution, downsizing, ever-changing technology), life in the 1880s was particularly difficult — especially here in Alberta.

      Back then, this undefined part of Western Canada was considered to be best left alone unless you were a hardened trapper. Those with vision, however, braved the elements and became pioneers of a way of life known as much for its hardships as its sense of promise.

      Calgary, to this day, stands as a monument to the struggles of the pioneer. If John Glenn, the first rancher to settle at First Creek in 1873, could have crafted himself a time machine — this resourceful man did, after all, build the first stone fireplaces for the old Bow River fort — would he have believed his eyes? Just how baffled would this pioneer be by this hustling, bustling city full of cars, cell phones, Web surfers and software developers? And what exactly would he make of the nostalgic cowboy hats donned during the famed Calgary Stampede?

      It’s quite possible that the pioneers who built this city would prefer the slower life, the good old days when relaxing meant taking a leisurely walk in the field.

      Few can argue the fact that the lives of twenty-first century adults are, to say the least, more comfortable than those of John Glenn’s time. We may never comprehend how hard our parents worked or how back-breaking the chores of our grandparents were. All we know for certain, as we look at the new and ever-changing landscape of this sprawling city, is that we are still filled with a sense of promise. The pioneers of yesterday are gone, but their spirit lives on, a spirit captured on film in these glimpses of the way we were.

      A trip back to 1891, a time when Calgary was hardly the urban metropolis it is today.

      B3191, Provincial Archives of Alberta Photographer: Brown, Earnest

      Frontier Beginnings

      UNTIL NEARLY THE END OF THE nineteenth century, the popular line of thought amongst politicians and the general public was that Western Canada (or Rupert’s Land, as it was known) only held allure for those who preferred life under extreme conditions. Or as Sir George Simpson, governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, told a British Royal Commission in 1857: the West should be left to the trapper and trader. Forever.

      Fort Calgary, 1876

      Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada ND-8-252

      Photographer: Oliver, W.J., Calgary, Alberta

      F-Troop, North West Mounted Police at Fort Calgary, 1876

      Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada NA-354-10 Photographer unknown

      Captain E.A. Brisebois of the North West Mounted Police, photographed here in 1876, tried in vain to ensure that the Bow River fort was named after him. Instead, it was named Fort Calgary. The name Calgary is thought to have been derived from a Gaelic word meaning Bay Farm.

      Glenbow Archives, Calgary,

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