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Calgary

noun

The largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada.

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Etymology of 'Calgary'

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"Calgary" Quotes from Famous Books

... ended at Edmonton, the hustling "Gate City to the Arctic", and then they commenced their return trip, stopping at Saskatoon, the beautiful "Hub City of the Saskatchewan"; at Regina, that stately "Queen City of the North West;" at Calgary, the "Gem City of the Rockies", and travelled from the latter to Winnipeg, ...

— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)

... commandments, for this is the whole duty of man—' the whole duty—— Yes, 'but isn't Duty rather an early Victorian sort of business, and a bit out of date, anyhow?' That was what a young countryman of mine—from Dorset, he came—said to me in Calgary, last year. I told him that, according to my reading of history, it had come down a little farther than early Victorian days. I remember I mentioned Rorke's Drift; and he rather liked that. But, of course, I knew what ...

— The Message • Alec John Dawson

... British territory; and on one of the excursions I made from Calgary. I think it was while hunting in the mountains between Alberta and British Columbia. Let me see the sketch. Yes—10th of August; I was in that region until 1st ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

Words linked to "Calgary" : metropolis, city, Alberta, urban center