University of Alberta Calgary - Evergreen and Gold Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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Here beginneth a tale ... a tale of the old west ... of tradition, progress and culture . . . a story of education. Once upon a time, in the valley of the Bow, the Indian and Buffalo reigned supreme. In 1 875 on a natural camp site at the junction of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, the Northwest Mounted Police erected Fort Calgary. The traders began to move in, then the early settlers, and soon a village of tents and shacks had mushroomed around the stockade of the Mounted Police fort. Then came the railroad.

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FOREWORD Year by year the motif of the Evergreen and Gold changes and in this our eighth publication, we have departed somewhat from tradition and present you with a new and different book—one with a historical theme. Although our theme is everchanging, our objective remains constant. This is your book, a tangible reminder of happy days spent on this campus, listening to lectures, taking part in sports and club activities, attending the Wauneita and “Grad formals, drinking coffee in the cafeteria, loung¬ ing in the S.U.B., and cramming for those inevitable exams. It is with optimism, therefore, that we put forth this volume, hoping that it will serve as a perpetual source of memories to those who spent the year 1953-54 at the Calgary Branch of the University of Alberta.

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Calgary ' s story is the story of the West. When the C.P.R. trains entered the townsite for the first time, they brought many new settlers who opened up the land and began their homesteads. Soon Calgary was no longer a fort but a small town.