Colonel Walker School

INGLEWOOD’S HERITAGE - WALKER ESTATE

Inglewood owes its name to Colonel James Walker.  Born in Ontario in 1845, he arrived in the west as a member of the North West Mounted Police in 1874, managed the Cochrane Ranch, operated a sawmill, became one of Calgary’s largest landowners and even sold gas from a well on his land to various industrial users.  His first home, a log cabin, floated away in the 1897 flood.  In 1910. He built a red brick house and called it “Inglewood”.  Land he subdivided in 1911, and eventually the entire community, also borrowed the name. This school is named in his honour.

INGLEWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 1989