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Fort Calgary, located at the junction of the Bow and Elbow rivers on the site of the present-day city of Calgary, was established in 1875 as a North-West Mounted Police post by Ephrem-A. Brisebois, one of the original officers of the force. Initially called Fort Brisebois, the name was changed to Fort Calgary in June 1876. As one of the most active police posts in southern Alberta, Fort Calgary became a district headquarters; but the arrival of the railway in 1883 and the subsequent rapid growth and expansion of Calgary destroyed the post's reason for existing. Fort Calgary is now securely buried under city concrete.
Author
ROBERT S. ALLEN
Links to Other Sites
Calgary
The official website for the City of Calagary, Alberta.
Fort Calgary Historic Park
This brief history of Fort Calgary is part of the Applied History Research Group website from the University of Calgary.
The Canadian Register of Historic Places
The Canadian Register offers a searchable database of historic places of local, provincial, territorial, and national significance.
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