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Table of Contents Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . 3 CULTURE . 93 Performing Arts Funding . Matt Master’s Top Five Calgary Area NEIGHBOURS OF THE WORLD . 7 Honkytonks . Jann Arden . Cowboy Icon . The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth . Stampede Numbers . Top Five Calgary TIMELINE . 9 Authors . Les Kimber . Paul Brandt . Honens Piano From 12 500 Before Present to 2007 . The First European Couple Competition . Kirsten Kosloski’s Top Five Local Bands to Watch . Marry in Calgary . Canadian Pacific Railway . The First School . Beginning of the Calgary Stampede . Oil! . Brian Brennan’s Top ECONOMY . 115 Five Scallywags in Calgary’s History . University of Calgary . The From GDP to Property Taxes and More . Average Wages . Todd Flames Make It to the 7th Game of the Stanley Cup . Hirch’s Top Five Reasons Why Calgary’s Economy is the Best in the Country . King of Beers . Bio: Clive Beddoe . Small Business CALGARY ESSENTIALS . 19 Types . Top Five Largest Employers . Self Employment . From the City Flag to Population Trends . Languages We Speak . Infrastructure . Downtown . Gas and Oil . Mad Cow and Population in Perspective . You Know You’re From Calgary When . Alberta Beef . Gerry Meek’s Top Five Essential Reads . Religious Affiliation . Will Ferguson’s Top Five Things You May Not Know About Calgary . POLITICS . 141 Colleges and Universities . Professional Sports Teams and Their High Cost of Government . George Murdoch . ‘Bible Bill’ . Notable Wins . Calgary’s Mayors . Women in Politics . Mayor Bronco’s Top Five Reasons He Loves Being Mayor . Dinosaur Farts and other CALGARY SLANG . 35 Kleinisms . The Prime Minister Connection . From Buckle Bunnies to the Red Mile, We Give You the Lowdown on Hip Cow Town Wordage . THEN AND NOW . 157 Population Then and Now . Father Albert Lacome . Norm Kwong URBAN GEOGRAPHY . 43 . Tumultuous Times in Turner Valley . Guy Weadick . Calgary’s Two Rivers Run Through it . Top Five Things You Can Do for Free in Titanic Survivors . Drought of Epic Proportions . The Great Calgary . Urban Oasis . The Palliser Hotel . Bev Sandalack’s Top Depression . Let There Be Light . Five Streets . Plus 15 . Calgary’s Five Best Kept Secrets . Towering? . Nose Hill Park . Canada Olympic Park . Chinatown . FIRST PEOPLE . 171 WEATHER . 63 Education and Employment . Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot . And the Winner is . Sun City . David Spence’s Top Five Aboriginal-Inspired Place Names . The Sacred Pipe . Treaty Seven . Influential Weather Events . When the Bow and the Elbow Flood . Social Organization . Joane Cardinal-Schubert . Story Robes . Freaky Weather . The Alley . Top Five Hottest and Coldest White and a Red Paper . National Aboriginal Awareness Day . Days . Wither the Luck o’ the Irish? . Chinook Wind . GO AHEAD, TAKE FIVE MORE . 187 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT . 75 Jason Smith’s Top Five Battle of Alberta Moments . John Gilchrist’s Calgary Crimeline . In the Line of Duty . Calgary’s Jack the Ripper . Five Restaurants for a Truly Calgary Experience . Duff Gibson’s Advice to Young Men . Black Friday . Policing Calgary . The Clown Suggestions on How to Slow Down and Enjoy Life . Sean Myers Tells Prince . .Taking a Big Bite Out of Crime . Pig Farmer and Hell Raiser . Us Why Calgary Kick’s Edmonton’s Butt . Susan Weatherby’s Five . Fine, Then . Hoax of the Century . Madame Pearl Miller . Best Day Trips . 4 5.
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