Ten Neat Things about Calgary
The first man. John Glenn may have been the first man to orbit the earth, but a name predecessor, John Glenn, was also the first white man to settle in what is now Calgary in 1873. Born in 1833 in Mayo County, Ireland, he fathered eight children with his wife Adelaide (Belcourt), only one of whom married. He died in an acci- dent at 53, but Adelaide carried on until her 88th
year.
The oldest building. Hunt House, originally a Hudson Bay post, was built in 1876. Built of logs with dove- tail corners, it is still standing on the original site. Plans are underway to restore it as part of a $21.3 million project to enhance the historic Fort Calgary.
Haunted restaurant. Rouge is argu- ably the most expensive and, some would say, the best restaurant in Calgary, but an unexpected guest or two may show up for dinner. The house, built by Alfred E. Cross in 1891, is haunted by Alfred’s daughter Lizzie who died as a child of influ- enza. Her heartbroken father, one of the founders of the Calgary Stam- pede, remains watching over her to this day. Odd things happen: frying pans move unaided, childish laugh- ter is heard, a male figure sometimes appears to be dining alone in one of the private rooms. The ladies’ wash- room is often the site of pranks.
Look up – look way up. Calgary’s tallest building is the Bow Building, completed in 2012. It is 58 storeys, or 774 feet, tall.
How dry I am. In May, the relative humidity is very dry, averaging 45 per cent four days out of five. It can become quite humid in August, however, when humidity exceeds 93 per cent four days out of five.
Weird weather. The most impor- tant thing to know about Calgary’s weather is its unpredictability; it can be warm and sunny one moment and snowing the next. The rainiest day is June 16, when it rains (and sometimes snows) 53 per cent of the time and the driest day is Nov. 27, which sees precipitation only 27 per cent of the time. The “warm season” is June 18 to Sept. 7. The warmest day is July 20, averaging 23 C as a
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high and 9 C as a low. The coldest day is Jan. 21 averaging a low of -19 C and high of -3 C. (Weatherspark. com statistics).
Surprising headquarters. In 1996, the Canadian Pacific Railway moved its headquarters from Montreal to Calgary. In 2012, Calgary was home to 135 head offices, up from just 84 in 2003.
Wealthiest five. 1. Fred and Ron Mannix, $3.45 billion, the Mancal Group; 2. Clay Riddell, $3.26 billion, oil and gas; 3. Murray Edwards, $2.50 billion, oil and gas, Calgary Flames; 4. Ron Southern $2.02 billion, ATCO Utilities; 5. J.R Shaw $1.5 billion, Shaw and Corus Enter- tainment.
Calgary population. Calgary is now the fifth largest city in Canada with a population of 1.2 million. There are 478,223 dwellings and the bench- mark price for a single family home is $512,300.
Black gold. Oil was discovered in Alberta in 1902, but not much happened until 1947, when the Leduc field was discovered. The fact that there was oil in Alberta was known to the Aboriginal people who used it to pitch canoes and as a medicine.
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