Historic Walks of Calgary
Author | : Harry Max Sanders |
Publisher | : Calgary : Red Deer Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN-10 | : 0889952973 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780889952973 |
Rating | : 4/5 (973 Downloads) |
Download or read book Historic Walks of Calgary written by Harry Max Sanders and published by Calgary : Red Deer Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its towering steel and glass skyscrapers, its endless modern suburbs, and its collective focus on the future, Calgary propagates its own greatest myth: that it is a city without history. But native archaeological sites, a reconstructed Mounted Police fort, and hundreds of historic homes, warehouses and commercial buildings that have escaped the wrecker's ball record the development of a nineteenth century cattletown into a twenty-first century metropolis. Alternating boom-and-bust cycles created their own legacies, providing architectural examples of the pre-First World War real estate boom, a late 1920s economic recovery and the petroleum wealth that flowed after the Leduc oil discovery of 1947. Illustrated with over 300 contemporary and archival photos.