Building The Ideal City

From police outpost … To modern city

Calgary's progress from police outpost to modern city has required difficult choices about our vision of success as a community. The development of our city can be traced through what we did with Fort Calgary and our river valleys.

The railway embankment in front of you represents a time when Calgarians thought trade was more important than history or the environment. As you move along this pathway, you travel a road Calgarians have gone down many times. At one end are industry, transportation and economic growth; at the other, open space, natural environment and recreation.

Fort Calgary's industrial era lasted from 1914 to 1975. Since then, other opportunities have allowed us to build to different ideals. What will we do in the future?