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Early 20th Century
By 1912 , calgary had a reliable supply of natural gas, it had a street railway, it had a vaudeville house and a 1500 seat, first class theatre, the Sherman Grand. At the peak of the surge in 1912, with 47,000 people living in Calgary, something happened that was destined to out last the Sandstone.
In the 50's Calgary became the fastest growing city in Canada and it stayed that way for a long time. From 100,000 in 1947, it mushroomed to 200,000 by 1955 and 325,000 by 1965.
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Late 19th century
In the late 19th Century, Calgary started out looking like most western towns: a series of wood frame houses, usually two story, with the occasional wooden church steeples and a city hall clock tower.
The town was destined for a change, that change came in the form of the great fire of 1886. Fire fighters did their best, but a large portion of town burned down in spite of them. The results were, those about to build considered materials more fire proof than wood.
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John and Adelaide Glenn
John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area, in 1873. Where he settled, the site became a post for the North-West Mounted Police (now the RCMP), originally named Fort Brisebois, Colonel James Macleod renamed it Fort Calgary in 1876.
When the NWMP built their fort at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers 1875, they laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today.
[pictured: John and Adelaide Glenn]
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