Stanley Learns About Calgary's History!

The population of Calgary in 1881 was 75 people. Calgary kept growing, and by 1931, Calgary had 83,761 people! At this time, Calgary was the 16th largest city in Canada.
Calgary was named after Calgary Bay in Scotland.

The CPR arrived in 1883. The population grew by 1,000 to 3,900 between 1896 and 1914 thanks to the railway. Settlers from all over the world came to the Calgary area. The Stampede started in 1912. The Stampede brought lots of people to visit and made Calgary famous around the world.

The first settler in the Calgary area was Sam Livingston. Sam had 14 kids, and helped found Calgary. We think he moved to Calgary because there was a lot of prairie and it would be easier to farm on the prairie. We think it would have been lonely to be the first person to live in Calgary, and think that that's why he had so many kids. He also needed them to help him on the farm.Calgary was first settled by Europeans in 1875. (This is after Sam Livingston moved here of course.)

The first woman in jail in Calgary was Janny Lveouky. We couldn't find out why she went to jail, but think maybe she was a bank robber or could have gotten blamed for something she didn't do.

The North West Mounted Police built Fort Calgary so they could protect Calgary. They also had Fort Calgary so that if more people moved to Calgary and if some of those people were bad, the police would not have to move the bad people so far from the city. They could keep their eyes on them close by. We think that maybe they took the criminals to the Fort and made them work and build things (maybe in a rock pit or something - mining) for punishment.

In Calgary's past, you used to get a fifty dollar fine for spitting. This is because they thought it was a bad habit (and not very polite) and wanted to get them out of it. Also, they might have wanted everyone to be polite in case Queen Elizabeth showed up unexpectedlyR.

We learned a lot about Calgary's history, and think that taking Stanley along to City Hall School helped him to learn many interesting things about our past!

by: Kate H & Steven C

Stanley Visits Calgary Transit

Calgary Transit has been moving Calgary since 1909. In 1909 the Calgary Electric Streetcar Railway began in a community of thirty thousand people, with sixteen miles of track and twelve street cars. Public transit provides transportation for Calgarians who cannot or choose not to transport themselves.
Any transit operator can drive a bus, train, or community shuttle. They can take handicapped people too. The cost to ride C-trains for adults is $2.00. For people under eighteen, the cost is $1.25. You can bring pets, bikes, rollerskates or inline skates on the bus or C-train, and there are free rides downtown.

Buses reduce pollution because forty one people can ride on a bus, instead of forty one people each driving their own car. This means that there are also less cars, motorcycles, and bikes on the road, which makes less traffic! Six hundred people can ride a three car C-train. This would be the same as five hundred forty five trucks.

In 2002, 76 million people took 110 million transit rides!

Calgary Transit works in a city of 905,000 people, with over 170 buses and three C-train lines of service. The 3M company has created new computer made vinyl siding that can “wrap” the bus up. The sides, back and top of the vehicle are covered with vinyl decorations instead of the whole bus being painted. The material allows customers to see outside even when the bus windows are covered. Looking through a window is like looking through a secret door!

Stanley Visits Calgary Transit’s Future

In the future, there will probably be a bus with wings. The bus could fly all over Calgary, and even to Saskatchewan in less than 60 minutes. There might even be water fountains on the buses, in case you get thirsty. The C-Train would drive to all the areas of Calgary, so their tracks will be much longer. In the future, I think it will cost $1.39 for kids to ride the C-Train. For adults, it will cost $3.00. I think that the community shuttles will fly to pick up people that live in different parts of the city. The pollution will be gone from the buses because it will be powered by an electric power generator, this will be instead of a fuel generator. These are all the changes I can think of for the future of Calgary Transit.

By James