Fort Calgary founded by North West Mounted Police 1875
1876
Canadian Pacific Railway reaches tent city near Fort Calgary 1883
Town of Calgary established 1884 - Population ~1000
1885
1886
1887
1892
City of Calgary established 1894 - Population ~3900
1894 First City Council
1897
October 4, 1897 -Just after the Death of Sam Livingston, Calgary's First Settler
1898
Sometime in the late 1890's, Fire Hall #1 erected in 1887
EDIT: More Calgary, now some pictures up to 1920
1900-1903
Calgary's first City Hall and Police building
1906
1907-1908
1910's
May 20, 1910 - Memorial Procession for the death of King Edward VII
1920 - Population around 75 000
LOL, sorry about posting so many pics, but I find Calgary's early history fascinating. Not only because of the astounding early growth, but also because we lost so damn much of what we built. In the 70's and 80's we lost the vast majority (let's say 85-90%) of our original downtown, which gives the downtown an appearance of being entirely modern. It's sad really, a lot of those old buildings were gorgeous and I would surely trade away a dozen parking lots and several brutalist blocks if I could get them back. The street life on 7th and 8th was also astounding, and tons of street car lines who can only be remembered by the names of the districts they ran through.