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Loading... Historic Walks of Calgaryby Harry M. Sanders
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)917.12338044History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America Canada Northwest, Canadian AlbertaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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