Posted Dec 27, 2019, 10:05 PM
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Calgary
1787 – Cartographer David Thompson spent the winter with a band of Peigan encamped along the Bow River. He was the first recorded European to visit the area. Southern Alberta was one of the final European explorations of North America
1873 – John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area
1875 – Originally named Fort Brisebois, after NWMP officer Éphrem-A. Brisebois, it was renamed Fort Calgary by Colonel James Macleod in 1876
1883 – The Canadian Pacific Railway reached the area and a rail station was constructed
1884 – Calgary, population 506, was officially incorporated a town and elected its first mayor, George Murdoch
1891 – Calgary and Edmonton Railway opened
1894 – It was incorporated as "The City of Calgary" in what was then the North-West Territories, population 3,900
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