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17 Avenue SW (Calgary)
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17 Avenue SW is a major east–west arterial road in the south-west quadrant of the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Between the Calgary Stampede Grounds and 14 Street SW, it is a street, with bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and shops. Officially named 17th ave Retail and Entertainment District, more information can be found here www. 17thave, west of Sarcee Trail it runs through suburban neighbourhoods and acreages, by Rundle College and Westside Recreation Centre. The west extension of the C-Train light rail system runs along 17 Avenue west of 33 Street SW. 17th Avenue was nicknamed the Red Mile in 2004 during the run of Calgarys NHL team. During this time, it was not uncommon to see over 100,000 fans crowding the street and its bars, the block has become the unofficial gathering place for Calgary Flames fans, with many celebrating in the street during their last playoff run in 2015. The street also dead-ends at the Stampede Grounds on its east side and is central to the party-like atmosphere that overtakes the city during the Calgary Stampede festival
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Alberta Highway 1A
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1A is the designation of three alternate routes off the Alberta portion of the Trans-Canada Highway. However, it is not the name used for spurs off Highway 1 - Highway 1X is another such designation. These highways, however, are not part of the Trans-Canada Highway network, the Lake Louise to Banff section of the Banff National Park 1A route is also known as the Bow Valley Parkway. It begins at Highway 1 at Lake Louise, generally paralleling it until it meets Highway 1 again approximately 6 km west of Banff and it provides more immediate access to attractions in Banff National Park such as Castle Mountain and Johnston Canyon. This spur has a speed limit of 60 km/h. Parks Canada introduced planned and marked pullovers along the route to enhance and it was the original highway that connected the valley and is advertised as a year-round scenic heritage experience. Parks Canada enacted seasonal travel restrictions along the Bow Valley Parkway on a 17 km segment between the Johnston Canyon Campground to the Fireside Picnic Area. From March 1st to June 25th, travel is not permitted between 8 p. m. and 8 a. m. in order to protect wildlife, Highway 1 can be used as an alternate route. Starting from the west end of Highway 1A, The second of the 1A routes, known as the Bow Valley Trail, begins in Canmore, off of the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 91. It former began at the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 86 and passed through Canmore, however, the roadway still carries the name Bow Valley Trail. From exit 91, it heads eastbound, along the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, from Exshaw, Bow Valley Trail heads to the northeast, past Highway 1X. Highway 1A passes Morley approximately eight kilometres from the eastern boundary. As the highway leaves the reserve, it widens and the speed limit back to 100 km/h. The lake also supplies most of the power for Calgary through TransAlta Utilities. Highway 1A meets northbound Highway 403 km after passing Ghost Lake, from Highway 40, Bow Valley Trail proceeds towards the east, and then slightly to the southeast, before reaching the Town of Cochrane, where it intersects with Highway 22. There, the highway proceeds a short distance to the southeast, while within the Calgary city limits, it crosses Stoney Trail as well as a number of major streets, before reuniting with the Trans-Canada Highway near McMahon Stadium and the University of Calgary. The section along Crowchild Trail is maintained by the City of Calgary rather than Alberta Transportation, starting from the west end of Highway 1A, When initially constructed, the Icefields Parkway was designated as Highway 1A between Lake Louise and Jasper. The route was renumbered to Highway 93 in 1959, a former section of Highway 1A precedes the Bow Valley Parkway
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Calgary
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Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, the city anchors the south end of what Statistics Canada defines as the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. The city had a population of 1,239,220 in 2016, making it Albertas largest city, also in 2016, Calgary had a metropolitan population of 1,392,609, making it the fourth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada. The Calgary CMA is home to the second-highest number of head offices in Canada among the countrys 800 largest corporations. In 1988, Calgary became the first Canadian city to host the Winter Olympic Games, Calgary was named after Calgary on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. In turn, the name originates from a compound of kald and gart, similar Old Norse words, meaning cold and garden, alternatively, the name might be Gaelic Cala ghearraidh, meaning beach of the meadow, or Gaelic for either clear running water or bay farm. The Calgary area was inhabited by people whose presence has been traced back at least 11,000 years. Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was inhabited by the Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, in 1787, cartographer David Thompson spent the winter with a band of Peigan encamped along the Bow River. He was a Hudsons Bay Company trader and the first recorded European to visit the area, John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area, in 1873. The site became a post of the North-West Mounted Police, the NWMP detachment was assigned in 1875 to protect the western plains from US whisky traders, and to protect the fur trade. Originally named Fort Brisebois, after NWMP officer Éphrem-A, Brisebois, it was renamed Fort Calgary in 1876 by Colonel James Macleod. When the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the area in 1883, over a century later, the Canadian Pacific Railway headquarters moved to Calgary from Montreal in 1996. Calgary was officially incorporated as a town in 1884, and elected its first mayor, in 1894, it was incorporated as The City of Calgary in what was then the North-West Territories. The Calgary Police Service was established in 1885 and assumed municipal, local duties from the NWMP, the Calgary Fire of 1886 occurred on November 7,1886. Fourteen buildings were destroyed with losses estimated at $103,200, although no one was killed or injured, city officials drafted a law requiring all large downtown buildings to be built with Paskapoo sandstone, to prevent this from happening again. After the arrival of the railway, the Dominion Government started leasing grazing land at minimal cost, as a result of this policy, large ranching operations were established in the outlying country near Calgary. Already a transportation and distribution hub, Calgary quickly became the centre of Canadas cattle marketing and meatpacking industries. By the late 19th century, the Hudsons Bay Company expanded into the interior and established posts along rivers that later developed into the cities of Winnipeg, Calgary
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Alberta
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Alberta is a western province of Canada. With an estimated population of 4,196,457 as of July 1,2015, it is Canadas fourth-most populous province and its area is about 660,000 square kilometres. Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the Northwest Territories until they were established as provinces on September 1,1905, the premier has been Rachel Notley since May 2015. Alberta is bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U. S. state of Montana to the south. Alberta is one of three Canadian provinces and territories to only a single U. S. state and one of only two landlocked provinces. About 290 km south of the capital is Calgary, the largest city in Alberta, Calgary and Edmonton centre Albertas two census metropolitan areas, both of which have populations exceeding one million, while the province has 16 census agglomerations. Tourist destinations in the province include Banff, Canmore, Drumheller, Jasper, Alberta is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Victoria, Queen of Canada, and Albert, Prince Consort. Princess Louise was the wife of John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, Lake Louise and Mount Alberta were also named in her honour. Alberta, with an area of 661,848 km2, is the fourth largest province after Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. To the south, the borders on the 49th parallel north, separating it from the US state of Montana. The province extends 1,223 km north to south and 660 km east to west at its maximum width, with the exception of the semi-arid steppe of the south-eastern section, the province has adequate water resources. There are numerous rivers and lakes used for swimming, fishing, there are three large lakes, Lake Claire in Wood Buffalo National Park, Lesser Slave Lake, and Lake Athabasca which lies in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. The longest river in the province is the Athabasca River which travels 1,538 km from the Columbia Icefield in the Rocky Mountains to Lake Athabasca, the largest river is the Peace River with an average flow of 2161 m3/s. The Peace River originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows through northern Alberta and into the Slave River, Albertas capital city, Edmonton, is located approximately in the geographic centre of the province. It is the most northerly city in Canada, and serves as a gateway. The region, with its proximity to Canadas largest oil fields, has most of western Canadas oil refinery capacity, Calgary is located approximately 280 km south of Edmonton and 240 km north of Montana, surrounded by extensive ranching country. Almost 75% of the population lives in the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. The land grant policy to the served as a means to populate the province in its early years
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Blackfoot Trail
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Blackfoot Trail is a road in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is named for the Blackfoot Confederacy, and more specifically the Siksika Nation, the road runs from 17 Avenue SE in the north, where Blackfoot Trail meets Deerfoot Trail, to Southland Drive in the south. In the north end, Highway 2 continued east on 17 Avenue SE, before turning north to Barlow Trail
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Deerfoot Trail
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Deerfoot Trail is a major freeway in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It begins south of the city near De Winton where it splits from Macleod Trail and it continues north across Stoney Trail before turning west to cross the Bow River again, after which it merges with Anderson Road and Bow Bottom Trail. Veering north to Glenmore Trail, it turns east across the river a third time, originally called Blackfoot Trail Freeway, it was renamed in 1974 to honour Deerfoot, a late 19th century Siksika Nation long distance runner known for his exceptional speed. The first segment to be constructed opened in 1971, with subsequent sections opening in 1975,1980,1982 and 2003, four at-grade intersections in southeast Calgary were converted to interchanges by 2005, rendering the entire route a freeway. Deerfoots curvaceous alignment through south Calgary is the result of pressure and opposition that forced the freeway away from Fish Creek Provincial Park. Well known for its frequent rush hour congestion, traffic levels have increased on the freeway as Calgarys population has tripled to over 1.2 million since the first section opened in 1971. The province of Alberta has been responsible for the road since 2000. As a segment of Highway 2, Deerfoot Trail is a route of the National Highway System. From its split with Highway 2A near the hamlet of De Winton, the freeway roughly bisects the city, its southern half follows the Bow River from Downtown Calgary to the southern city limit. Initially Deerfoot is on the east side, then crosses to the west bank, most of the northern half parallels Nose Creek, a tributary of the Bow. Deerfoot is a freeway for its entire 46. 4-kilometre length. In north Calgary the grass median is supplemented by 10.75 km of cable barriers that were added in 2007. It was the first major HTCB installation in Canada, the entire route is paved with asphalt, except for a 12 km concrete section in south Calgary. Alberta Transportation has signed a contract with Carmacks Enterprises for maintenance of Deerfoot Trail from Stoney Trail in south Calgary to the city limit. Former Calgary mayor Rod Sykes said, I wouldn’t take on the problems of the Deerfoot if I were at City Hall now. Deerfoot Trail begins as a freeway near De Winton where two lanes fork to the northeast from Macleod Trail and descend across Dunbow Road toward the Bow River. It crosses the river on twin 236-metre bridges constructed over a sensitive area of the valley. Rising from the river, the freeway enters Calgary limits and its southern suburban neighbourhoods of Cranston and Seton to which access is provided by a cloverleaf interchange
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Alberta Highway 2
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Running primarily north to south for approximately 1,273 kilometres, it is the longest and busiest highway in the province carrying nearly 170,000 vehicles per day in central Calgary. The majority of Albertas 4 million residents live in the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor that is bisected by Highway 2. U. S. Route 89 enters Alberta from Montana and becomes Highway 2, in Calgary, the route is a busy freeway named Deerfoot Trail that continues into central Alberta as the Queen Elizabeth II Highway, bypassing Red Deer and bisecting Leduc. In Edmonton, it is concurrent with freeway sections of Highways 216 and 16. It exits the Capital Region through the city of St. Albert, Highway 2 was originally numbered as Highway 1 and is one of the oldest major highways in Alberta, historical names include the Calgary and Edmonton Trail, Sunshine Trail, and the Blue Trail. In southern Alberta, the highway comprised a portion of the proposed Glacier-to-Gulf Motorway that ran from Calgary to Mexico. Major changes include the construction of an expressway between Calgary and Edmonton in the 1960s, realignment along Deerfoot Trail in the 1980s. A1998 Highway 43 realignment shortened Highway 2 by nearly 90 km to its current northern terminus in Grande Prairie, bypasses of Fort Macleod, Claresholm, and Nanton are planned as part of Albertas effort to make its portion of the CANAMEX Corridor free-flowing from border to border. Highway 2 is a route in the National Highway System of Canada. As the main access in Alberta, Highway 2 is the preferred path of the CANAMEX Corridor. Highway 2 begins at the United States border, as the two lane U. S. Route 89 crosses into Canada at Carway, the road proceeds north through the Rocky Mountain Foothills to a brief concurrency with Highway 501, before bisecting the town of Cardston. Less than 1 km before meeting Highway 3 southeast of Fort Macleod, Highway 3 splits east to Lethbridge, and the combined Highways 2 and 3 turn due west through town as a divided highway at a speed limit of 50 km/h. It continues approximately 25 km north to Granum from which Highway 519 splits to the east, in tandem with Highway 23, Highway 519 is often used by CANAMEX traffic to bypass Fort Macleod. Further north on Highway 2, the towns of Claresholm and Nanton are each bisected at reduced speed limit of 50 km/h, the highway is concurrent with Highway 533 for its brief distance through Nanton. North of Nanton, the highway continues into the Municipal District of Foothills to a junction with Highways 23. From its split with Macleod Trail, Highway 2 becomes a major freeway named Deerfoot Trail that descends to cross the Bow River before entering Calgary city limits, in the city it crosses the river twice more, jogging back and forth between its east and west bank. Deerfoot Trail then merges with the routes of Anderson Road. The Deerfoot Trail designation is dropped, and the highway carries on north into Rocky View County, Highway 2 exits north Calgary as a six lane freeway called the Queen Elizabeth II Highway, a name it retains until the southern city limit of Edmonton
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Stoney Trail
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Stoney Trail is a 69-kilometre freeway in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Construction of the road has been split into five separate segments. Work is currently underway on the second to last segment in southwest Calgary, a 5 km section of the already existing Glenmore Trail will be upgraded, renamed to Stoney Trail, and incorporated to Highway 201. A final short segment west of the city that will complete the ring still remains, Stoney Trail derives its name from one of the three tribes which make up the Nakoda First Nation - the other two being the Chiniki and the Wesley. The already completed sections of Stoney Trail are heavily traveled by commuters, at its busiest point near Beddington Trail in north Calgary, the freeway carries nearly 80,000 vehicles per day. Stoney Trail currently consists of the northern and southeastern sections of the ring road, the northern and southern sections create a northern and eastern bypass link between Highway 1 and Deerfoot Trail. This land is known as the Transportation and Utility Corridor, as land set aside for future road. Land acquisition started in 1974, and by the time the road projects were initiated. The Calgary TUC failed to include a TUC corridor in southwest Calgary between Glenmore Trail and Highway 22X, the City of Calgary is bounded along 37 Street SW by the Tsuu Tina Nation. The developed areas of the City of Calgary had already reached 37 Street SW around the Glenmore Reservoir inhibiting the ability of the government to impose an RDA. The missing link in the TUC map created uncertainty in the future Southwest Ring Road network which until October 2013 complicated completion of the Southwest Ring Road, however, in 2013 the Tsuu Tina had another agreement with the province, which was accepted by the nation. The northwest quadrant of the road was the first to be constructed. In the mid-1990s, the province of Alberta built the first segment around the Bow River Bridge connecting Highway 1 with Crowchild Trail and this was subsequently extended to Country Hill Boulevard. In 2003, the province announced finishing the quadrant by extending the ring road 17 km north to link up with Deerfoot Trail. The original design was limited in scope and incorporated two interchanges, one flyover and two signallized intersections with completion scheduled in 2007 at a cost of $250 million. Along with increasing costs, the project was delayed and the extension to Deerfoot Trail was not opened until November 2,2009. The portion of the road between Harvest Hills Boulevard and Deerfoot Trail opened to traffic on November 2,2009. 30,000 to 40,000 vehicles were expected to use this segment daily, actual peak traffic volumes exceeded 40,000 vpd between Crowchild Trail and Country Hills Boulevard in 2010
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Chestermere
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Chestermere, originally named Chestermere Lake, is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta, within Rocky View County. It is largely a bedroom community of Calgary and is a municipality of the Calgary Regional Partnership. The city, which surrounds Chestermere Lake, was known as Chestermere Lake from 1977 to 1993, prior to the 20th century, the area around what is now Chestermere Lake was settled by only a few farmers. When the Canadian Pacific Railway was established in the 1880s, more and more came to settle in the west. To make farming more productive, settlers began to determine ways to irrigate their land, as a natural wetland, Chestermere Lake was considered to be perfect for use as a balancing pool for the Western Irrigation Block. By 1907, a dam and canal system had been built, the wetland developed into a lake, following the irrigation development, the lake began to be used for recreation. People would lease land from the Western Irrigation District, build cabins, in 1959, the Chestermere Cabin Owners Association was incorporated with approximately 50 members. The CCOA held events, bought a truck for the community, worked to reduce pollution in the lake, planted trees. As more people began to live around Chestermere Lake, residents wanted to secure long-term leases, in 1975, the CCOA bought the land from the WID and then transferred it to the residents. By 1977, the lake boasted 120 permanent homes and gained status as the Summer Village of Chestermere Lake on April 1,1977. By 1992, Chestermere’s population had increased to 1,043 permanent residents, on March 1,1993, the Summer Village of Chestermere Lake officially changed its status and name to the Town of Chestermere. Becoming a town gave the more local and political authority. The town continued developing amenities and services for residents and its population has grown to 17,203 residents as recorded by its 2014 municipal census, in late 2014, town council voted in favour of pursuing city status, which became effective January 1,2015. Chestermeres town council voted to apply for city status on September 29,2014 when it was the fastest growing Town in Alberta and it became Albertas 18th city on January 1,2015. The city is organized into fifteen neighbourhoods, with a land area of 32.94 km2, it had a population density of 603. 7/km2 in 2016. The population of Chestermere according to its 2016 municipal census is 19,715, a change of 6. 6% from its 2015 municipal census population of 18,496. In the 2011 Census, the City of Chestermere had a population of 14,824 living in 4,635 of its 4,858 total dwellings, with a land area of 32.64 km2, it had a population density of 454. 2/km2 in 2011. The 2011 census also indicated that Chestermere was ranked as the municipality with the fifth-highest population growth between 2006 and 2011, Chestermere is accessible on land through Trans-Canada Highway and Alberta Highway 1A
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Alberta Highway 1
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1, commonly referred to as Highway 1, is a major east-west highway in southern Alberta, Canada that forms a portion of the Trans-Canada Highway. It runs from the British Columbia border near Lake Louise to the Saskatchewan border east of Medicine Hat and it spans approximately 534 km from Albertas border with British Columbia in the west to its border with Saskatchewan in the east. The route is divided expressway throughout the province, with a minimum of two lanes in each direction, Highway 1 is designated as a core route in Canadas National Highway System British Columbia Highway 1 becomes Alberta Highway 1 as it crosses Kicking Horse Pass into Alberta. It generally travels in a southeast direction along the Bow River through Banff National Park, passing by the Hamlet of Lake Louise, the segment of Highway 1 through the national park is maintained by the Government of Canada. Upon exiting Banff National Park, Highway 1 is maintained by Alberta Transportation for 91 km until it reaches the City of Calgary. This segment of the highway travels in an east direction through the rural municipalities of the Municipal District of Bighorn No.8. It also briefly crosses a portion of Kananaskis Improvement District, for urban communities, this segment passes by the Hamlet of Harvie Heights, through the Town of Canmore, and by the hamlets of Dead Mans Flats and Lac des Arcs. In Calgary, Highway 1 is follows 16 Avenue N and maintained by the City of Calgary, as a result, speed limits on 16 Avenue N drop as low as 50 km/h. The recently completed northwest and northeast legs of Stoney Trail provide a higher speed route across the city. The length of Highway 1 within Calgary is 27 km, upon exiting Calgary, Highway 1 is maintained by Alberta Transportation for 273 km until it reaches the City of Medicine Hat. This segment of the highway travels in a southeast direction through the rural municipalities of Rocky View County, Wheatland County, the County of Newell. Chestermere Boulevard, the original Highway 1 from Calgary to Chestermere, is a route to initial portion of this segment of Highway 1. Within the City of Medicine Hat, Highway 1 is named Trans Canada Highway, stretches of the highway function as a freeway, while stretches between the South Saskatchewan River and Seven Persons Creek function as an urban arterial road. One at-grade intersection exists beyond 13 Avenue SE at Dunmore Road/South Boundary Road before exiting the city, the length of Highway 1 within Medicine Hat is 13 km. East of Medicine Hat, Highway 1 is maintained by Alberta Transportation for 48 km until it enters the Province of Saskatchewan and this segment of the highway generally travels in an east direction through Cypress County. For urban communities, this segment passes through the Hamlet of Dunmore and by the hamlets of Irvine, a review of historical Alberta Official Road Maps shows that Highway 1 was numbered Highway 2 prior to 1941. Exit numbering along Highway 1 began in 2005, as of March 2010, only the stretch of Highway 1 between Banff National Park and Calgary had been assigned exit numbers. Parks Canada completed twinning the final 8.5 km of Highway 1 between Lake Louise and the British Columbia border in 2014, with the new alignment opened to traffic on June 12 of that year, planning is underway to realign Highway 1 around the Town of Strathmore
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Inglewood, Calgary
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Inglewood is a neighbourhood in central Calgary, Alberta, Canada, centred on 9th Avenue SE for several blocks east of the Elbow River and downtown. It also contains the Business Revitalization Zone of Inglewood and it is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 9 councillor. The postal code in this area is T2G, Inglewood has the distinction of being Calgarys oldest neighbourhood and it is immediately across the Elbow river from Fort Calgary. The community was established in 1875 after the fort was built and it was developed by a group headed by Acheson Irvine, Major John Stewart and James Macleod. Ninth Avenue was probably the first main street in the city, today, the neighbourhood is a shopping and arts district. It is also home to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, a wildlife refuge. Originally known as East Calgary or Brewery Flats, the community was not officially given the name Inglewood until 1911, the community was placed under a mandatory evacuation order during the 2013 Alberta floods. In the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Inglewood had a population of 3,564 living in 2,241 dwellings, with a land area of 2.5 km2, it had a population density of 1, 426/km2 in 2012. Residents in this community had a household income of $47,040 in 2000. As of 2000,12. 7% of the residents were immigrants, a proportion of 32. 8% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 36. 2% of the housing was used for renting. The district of Inglewood contains or is adjacent to a number of tourist attractions including Fort Calgary Historic Park, the Calgary Zoo, the north boundary of the district is lined by the Bow River pathway. Today, Inglewood promotes an arts and culture-filled district with more than 100 shops, boutiques and eateries attracting locals and tourists alike. It has been referred to as Calgarys hub of local music thanks to venues like the Ironwood Stage and Grill, The Blues Can, sunfest is generally held on the last Saturday in July each year. Since 2007, Inglewood has hosted the Bleak Midwinter Film Festival, founded by Inglewood residents Wendy Tilby, since Inglewood is in an environmentally sensitive area at the confluence of the Elbow and the Bow rivers, it is also home to several nature preserves. These include the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, the Bow Habitat Station, Inglewood Wildlands Park, another attraction of Inglewood, is the direct access via 9th ave to downtown Calgary, Deerfoot Trail and International Avenue. Inglewood is filled with various places to dine whether you are on a budget or want to spend a romantic evening sipping fine wine, for a list of all restaurants in Inglewood, visit Inglewoods neighborhood website. Inglewood is also home to the Inglewood Aquatic Centre and this facility was built and opened in 1963 originally as an outdoor pool. Several years later it was enclosed so that it would be usable year round, the land for the site of this swimming pool was donated to the City of Calgary by the Calgary Brewing and Malting Company Limited
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Radisson Heights, Calgary
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Albert Park/Radisson Heights is a residential neighbourhood in the south-east quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is bounded to the west by the Bow River and Deerfoot Trail, to the north by Memorial Drive, the community of Forest Lawn lies to the east. The community has a redevelopment plan in place and is part of the International Avenue Business Revitalization Zone. It is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 10 councillor. In the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Albert Park/Radisson Heights had a population of 6,234 living in 2,709 dwellings, with a land area of 2.5 km2, it had a population density of 2, 490/km2 in 2012. Residents in this community had a household income of $38,019 in 2000. As of 2000,25. 9% of the residents were immigrants, a proportion of 40. 2% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 58% of the housing was used for renting. Albert Park and Radisson Heights are close to Downtown Calgary, inglewood, Fort Calgary Historic Park and the Calgary Zoo, are just moments away. The Max Bell Centre is located immediately west of Radisson Heights, in 2002, Radisson Heights was the first community in Calgary to have its own Wi-Fi internet service and was managed by WestNet Wireless. This neighbourhood has one elementary school, Radisson Park Elementary School built in 2006. There were two elementary schools that were closed and merged into Radisson Park Elementary School, angering some southwest residents who have no community elementary schools
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Southview, Calgary
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Southview is a residential neighbourhood in the south-east quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is bounded by 17 Avenue SE to the north,36 Street SE to the east,26 Avenue SE to the south and the Bow River to the west. Southview was established in 1950, being the last community to develop inside the Greater Forest Lawn Area and is part of the International Avenue Business Revitalization Zone and it is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 10 councillor. In the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Southview had a population of 1,900 living in 936 dwellings, with a land area of 1.6 km2, it had a population density of 1, 190/km2 in 2012. Residents in this community had a household income of $44,908 in 2000. As of 2000,14. 9% of the residents were immigrants, a proportion of 18. 5% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 33. 9% of the housing was used for renting. The community is served by the Mountain View Elementary public school, list of neighbourhoods in Calgary Southview Community Association
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Forest Lawn, Calgary
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Forest Lawn is a neighbourhood and former town in the southeast quadrant of the City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The neighbourhood is bound by 26 Avenue SE to the south,36 Street SE to the west,8 Avenue SE to the north, both the neighbourhood and the former town are bisected by the multicultural 17 Avenue SE. Forest Lawn has a redevelopment plan in place and is part of the International Avenue Business Revitalization Zone. The community is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 10 councillor, on a federal level, Forest Lawn falls in the electoral district of Calgary East and is represented in the House of Commons by MP Deepak Obhrai. The area was first settled in the early 1900s, originally part of the Municipal District of Shepard No. 220, Forest Lawn and nearby Albert Park incorporated as villages on July 4,1934, Forest Lawn and Albert Park amalgamated just over a year later on August 1,1935 under the name of the Village of Forest Lawn. In 1952, Forest Lawn was incorporated as the Town of Forest Lawn, the town was subsequently annexed by the City of Calgary on December 30,1961, along with parts of the municipal districts of Rocky View No.44 and Foothills No.31. In the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Forest Lawn had a population of 7,487 living in 3,352 dwellings, with a land area of 2.3 km2, it had a population density of 3, 260/km2 in 2012. Also in the 2012 municipal census, Forest Heights had a population of 6,212 living in 2,221 dwellings, with a land area of 1.5 km2, it had a population density of 4, 140/km2 in 2012. Residents in this community had a household income of $40,396 in 2000. As of 2000,18. 6% of the residents were immigrants, a proportion of 29. 4% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 57. 7% of the housing was used for renting. Forest Lawn is the name of the new album by Glunk Rock band Role Models whose singer Rich Ragany is from Forest Lawn, the neighbourhood of Forest Lawn Industrial is established south of International Avenue, and east of 48 St SE, between Elliston Park and 48 St SE. In the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Forest Lawn Industrial had a population of 130 living in 63 dwellings, with a land area of 1.5 km2, it had a population density of 87/km2 in 2012. In 2006 it had a household income of $27,945 in 2000. This area is served by two recreational pools, the Forest Lawn Outdoor Pool is operated by the community association. List of neighbourhoods in Calgary Forest Lawn Community Associations International Avenue BRZ Bob Bahan Aquatic & Fitness Centre Calgary Police, archived from the original on 2007-09-28
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Penbrooke Meadows, Calgary
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Penbrooke Meadows is a residential neighbourhood in the south-east quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is bounded by Memorial Drive to the north,68 Street E to the east,52 Street E to the west and 17 Avenue SE to the south and is part of the International Avenue Business Revitalization Zone. The area was annexed by Calgary in 1961 and Penbrooke Meadows was established in 1969 and it is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 10 councillor. The postal code in this area is T2A, in the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Penbrooke Meadows had a population of 8,547 living in 3,212 dwellings, a 4. 4% increase from its 2011 population of 8,188. With a land area of 2 km2, it had a density of 4. Residents in this community had a household income of $49,602 in 2000. As of 2000,32. 6% of the residents were immigrants, a proportion of 3% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 29. 6% of the housing was used for renting. The community is served by G. W, skene Elementary, James Short Memorial Elementary and Penbrooke Meadows Elementary public schools, as well as by St. Peter Elementary School. List of neighbourhoods in Calgary Penbrooke Meadows Community Association
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Red Carpet, Calgary
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Red Carpet is a community in the south-east quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is located at the edge of the city, between the CN tracks,17 Avenue SE and 68 Street SE. Elliston Park and Elliston Lake, the site of GlobalFest fireworks, are located south of the community. In the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Red Carpet had a population of 1,555 living in 917 dwellings, with a land area of 0.6 km2, it had a population density of 2, 590/km2 in 2012. Residents in this community had a household income of $37,565 in 2000. As of 2000, 8% of the residents were immigrants, a proportion of 27. 5% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, with the remainder being mobile homes, and 28. 9% of the housing was used for renting. List of neighbourhoods in Calgary Penbrooke Meadows Community Association
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Applewood Park, Calgary
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Applewood Park is a residential neighbourhood in the south-east quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is located at the edge of the city, north of 17 Avenue SE. Elliston Park, the site of GlobalFest fireworks, is located south-west of the community, Applewood was established in 1982 and is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 10 councillor. The community has a structure plan in place. In the City of Calgarys 2012 municipal census, Applewood Park had a population of 6,498 living in 2,215 dwellings, with a land area of 1.6 km2, it had a population density of 4, 060/km2 in 2012. Residents in this community had a household income of $65,724 in 2000. As of 2000,38. 6% of the residents were immigrants, a proportion of 1. 4% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 11. 4% of the housing was used for renting. List of neighbourhoods in Calgary Applewood Park Community Association
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Arterial road
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An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road. The primary function of a road is to deliver traffic from collector roads to freeways or expressways. As such, many arteries are limited-access roads, or feature restrictions on private access, though the design of arterial roads varies from country to country, city to city, and even within cities, they share a number of common design characteristics. For example, in cities, arteries are arranged in concentric circles or in a grid. Many jurisdictions also classify arterial roads as either principal or minor, in traffic engineering hierarchy, an arterial road delivers traffic between collector roads and freeways. For new arterial roads, intersections are often reduced to increase traffic flow, in California, arterial roads are usually spaced every half mile, and have intersecting collector and streets. The Traffic Engineering Handbook describes Arterials as being either principal or minor, both classes serve to carry longer-distance flows between important centers of activity. Arterials are laid out as the backbone of a network and should be designed to afford the highest level of service, as is practical. The construction and development of roads is achieved through two methods. By far the most common is the upgrading of an existing right-of-way during subdivision development, when existing structures prohibit the widening of an existing road however, bypasses are often constructed. Because of the placement and general continuity of arterial road corridors, sewers, water mains, conduits, in North America, traffic signals are used at most intersections. In Europe, large roundabouts are more commonly seen at the busier junctions, speed limits are typically between 30 and 50 mph, depending on the density of use of the surrounding development. In school zones, speeds may be reduced, likewise, in sparsely developed or rural areas. The width of arterial roads can range from four lanes to ten or more, some are divided at the center, while others share a common center lane, such as a contraflow lane or central turning lane. As with other types, environmental consequences derive from arterial roadways, including air pollution generation, noise pollution
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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International Avenue, Calgary
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International Avenue is a Business Revitalization Zone in Calgary, Alberta. The district is centered on 17th Avenue S. E. in the neighbourhood of Forest Lawn in the east of the city, the district was created in 1993 to celebrate the rich cultural diversity that exists in east central Calgary. The area has become a popular location for ethnic restaurants. The BRZ was also established to revitalize the former town of Forest Lawn. The neighbourhood has long had a reputation for being a haven for crime, in recent years, however, the area has been recognized for its multi-culturalism and has been slowly developing into a major destination for both Calgary residents and tourists. The city and the BRZ are currently in the process of implementing new urban design, since 2003, International Avenue has played host to Calgarys large multi-cultural event, GlobalFest. GlobalFest combines both a celebration of diversity known as OneWorld Festival and an International Fireworks Festival at Elliston Park, the event takes place annually in late August. International Avenue BRZ Shop 17th Avenue Committee
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Chestermere Lake
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Chestermere Lake is a man-made reservoir in Chestermere, Alberta, Canada. It was built in the 1880s by the Canadian Pacific Railway and it is now used mainly for recreation purposes, such as swimming, windsurfing, fishing and skating. The City of Chestermere surrounds the lake on three sides, the Trans-Canada Highway follows the northeastern shore, while the railway tracks pass by the southern shore. The lake covers a surface of 2.65 square kilometres and has a depth of 7 metres. It drains into two canals and is filled via a canal from the Bow River
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Canadian Pacific Railway
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The Canadian Pacific Railway, also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881. The railroad is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a restructuring in 2001. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 20,000 kilometres of track all across Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves Minneapolis-St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, the railway was originally built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885, fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871. It was Canadas first transcontinental railway, but no longer reaches the Atlantic coast, the CPR became one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada, a position it held as late as 1975. Its primary passenger services were eliminated in 1986, after being assumed by Via Rail Canada in 1978, a beaver was chosen as the railways logo because it is the national symbol of Canada and was seen as representing the hardworking character of the company. The company acquired two American lines in 2009, the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad and the Iowa, Chicago, the trackage of the ICE was at one time part of CP subsidiary Soo Line and predecessor line The Milwaukee Road. It is publicly traded on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP and its U. S. headquarters are in Minneapolis. The creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway was a task undertaken for a combination of reasons by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. He was helped by Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, who was the owner of the North Western Coal and his company went through several name changes during the process of the construction of the railway. British Columbia, a sea voyage away from the East Coast, had insisted upon a land transport link to the East as a condition for joining Confederation. The government however proposed to build a railway linking the Pacific province to the Eastern provinces within 10 years of 20 July 1871, Macdonald saw it as essential to the creation of a unified Canadian nation that would stretch across the continent. Moreover, manufacturing interests in Quebec and Ontario wanted access to raw materials, the first obstacle to its construction was political. The logical route went through the American Midwest and the city of Chicago, to ensure this routing, the government offered huge incentives including vast grants of land in the West. Because of this scandal, the Conservative Party was removed from office in 1873, surveying was carried out during the first years of a number of alternative routes in this virgin territory followed by construction of a telegraph along the lines that had been agreed upon. The Thunder Bay section linking Lake Superior to Winnipeg was commenced in 1875, by 1880, around 1,000 kilometres was nearly complete, mainly across the troublesome Canadian Shield terrain, with trains running on only 500 kilometres of track. With Macdonalds return to power on 16 October 1878, an aggressive construction policy was adopted. Macdonald confirmed that Port Moody would be the terminus of the transcontinental railway, in 1879, the federal government floated bonds in London and called for tenders to construct the 206 km section of the railway from Yale, British Columbia, to Savonas Ferry, on Kamloops Lake
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Bow River
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The Bow River is a river in the Canadian province of Alberta. It begins in the Rocky Mountains and winds through the Alberta foothills onto the prairies where it meets the Oldman River and these waters ultimately flow through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. The Bow River runs through the city of Calgary, taking in the Elbow River at the site of Fort Calgary near downtown. The Bow River pathway, developed along the banks, is considered a part of Calgarys self-image. First Nations peoples made varied use of the river for sustenance before settlers of European origin arrived, such as using its valleys in the buffalo hunt. The name Bow refers to the reeds that grew along its banks and were used by the local First Nations peoples to make bows, the river is an important source of water for irrigation and drinking water. Between the years 1910 and 1960, the Bow River and its tributaries were engineered to provide hydroelectric power and this significantly altered the rivers flow and certain ecosystems. The rivers source is from the Bow Glacier, which is part of the Wapta Icefield, the outflow from this source flows into Bow Lake in the Canadian Rockies. It flows south to the village of Lake Louise then turns east, the Ghost Lake reservoir is formed upstream from the town of Cochrane. The Bow then flows eastward to the city of Calgary, it continues on to form the South Saskatchewan River when the Bow joins with the Oldman River near Grassy Lake in southern Alberta. Its waters are shed in the Hudson Bay through the Saskatchewan River, Lake Winnipeg. Communities along the Bow include Lake Louise, Banff, Canmore, Cochrane, Calgary, the Bow Falls are on the rivers course, near Banff. The Bow River has a length of 587 km and a drainage area of 26,200 km2. The fur trader James Gaddy and the Hudsons Bay Company explorer David Thompson are traditionally considered to be the first people of European origin to discover the Bow River and they camped along the Bow with a group of Piikani during the 1787–88 winter. Before they arrived, First Nations populations had lived in the Bow region for thousands of years, among them were the Nakoda, Tsuu Tina, and the Blackfoot Confederacy, consisting of the Kainai, Piikanai, and Siksika peoples. The Kutenai had migrated westwards, possibly in the eighteenth century. First Nations used the valleys for the buffalo hunt, in which herds of buffalo were driven over cliffs or into valleys where they could be killed more easily with bows and arrows. Of all the First Nations groups that lived in the Bow River area, while other groups likely caught fish during harder times, they primarily hunted buffalo during the summer season when fishing would have been most plentiful
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Trans-Canada Highway
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The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental federal-provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the Atlantic on the east. The main route spans 8,030 kilometres across the country, the system was approved by the Trans-Canada Highway Act of 1949, with construction commencing in 1950. The highway officially opened in 1962, and was completed in 1971, upon its original completion, the Trans-Canada Highway was the most lengthy uninterrupted highway in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers, throughout much of Canada, there are at least two routes designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway. For example, in the provinces, both the main Trans-Canada route and the Yellowhead Highway are part of the Trans-Canada system. As of 2012, this made it the longest electric vehicle ready highway in the world, the Trans-Canada is otherwise designated as east-west from Nanaimo to St. Johns, although there are significant north-south sections north of Hope, Sault Ste. From Departure Bay, a 57 km ferry route connects the highway to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver, at this point, the Trans-Canada Highway becomes a high mobility freeway and passes through the Vancouver metropolitan area, crossing the Fraser River with the Port Mann Bridge. The section around the Bridge has started being electronically tolled as of 8 December 2012, from Horseshoe Bay, the TCH then heads 170 km east through the Fraser Valley to Hope. Then it continues 496 km east through Salmon Arm, Revelstoke, Rogers Pass, Golden, the northwest and northeast segments of Stoney Trail were completed in 2009, serving as an east-west bypass of Calgary. East of Calgary,293 km the highway reaches Medicine Hat. It continues 79 km east to the city of Regina that is bypassed by a freeway segment. Beyond Regina it continues east into Manitoba to the cities of Brandon and Portage la Prairie, throughout the prairie provinces, the speed limit varies from 90 km/h to 110 km/h. The speed limit is restricted to 90 km/h through national parks in Canada, east of Banff, most of Highway 1 through Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba is 110 km/h, but is 100 km/h east of Winnipeg. Speed limits on the British Columbia mainland segment of the Trans-Canada range from 80 km/h to 110 km/h, east of Winnipeg, the highway continues for over 200 kilometres to Kenora, Ontario. At the provincial border, the designation of the highway changes from 1 to 17. In Kenora, the Trans-Canada designation includes both the route through the citys urban core and the 33.6 km Highway 17A bypass route. The existing branch from Kenora continues east for 136 km to Dryden, a second branch extends 157 km southward along Highway 71 from Kenora to Chapple, then 320 km eastward along Highway 11 to Shabaqua Corners, where it reunites with Highway 17. Highway 11/Highway 17 proceeds southeast for 65 km to Thunder Bay, an 83-kilometre segment of the Trans-Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Nipigon is commemorated as the Terry Fox Courage Highway
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Downtown Calgary
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Downtown Calgary is a region of central Calgary, Alberta, containing the second largest concentration of head offices in Canada. The region is divided into neighbourhoods, the Central Business District, Eau Claire, Chinatown, East Village. There are a number of districts within Downtown Calgary as well, the population of Calgarys downtown has grown substantially in recent years, growing by several thousand between 2011 and 2016. Calgary Transits C-Train light rail system runs down 7th Avenue S. through the middle of downtown in a E-W direction, while the newly proposed Green Line of the C-Train will run underground through downtown under 2nd Street, running in a N-S direction. Calgarys dense business area comprises the bulk of the downtown community and it is a core of skyscrapers. As of February 2017, eight of the ten tallest buildings in western Canada, and it is arguably the densest downtown area of any city of its size in North America. Many of the buildings are connected via an 18 km long network of elevated walkways, the system, known as the +15 is the largest of its kind in the world. The area surrounding the Stephen Avenue Walk is Downtown Calgarys primary retail area, Stephen Avenue is a pedestrian mall lined with historic buildings containing stores, restaurants, cinemas, and drinking establishments. Immediately adjacent to the portion of Stephen Avenue is an indoor complex of two shopping malls. The malls, The Core Shopping Centre and the Scotia Centre are bordered at either end by the historic Hudsons Bay Company store, the street is also home to a number of galleries, restaurants, pubs, off-beat cinemas, and nightclubs. The commercial core is divided into a number of districts. They include the Entertainment District/Stephen Avenue, The Olympic Plaza and Cultural District, the government district is an informal subdivision of the downtown core, and is centered along Macleod Trail, between the commercial core, Chinatown and Downtown East Village. A statue of The Famous Five stands between Stephen Avenue and Olympic Plaza, the entertainment district is located along 8th Avenue South. Landmark buildings found in this include the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which incorporates several historic buildings into its facade. Landmark skyscrapers in this district are Scotia Centre, Bankers Hall, the Udderly Art Legacy Pasture, a collection of decorated fiberglass cows built in 2000, is hosted mainly in the Centennial Parkade, while other particular exponates are spread throughout the city. The East Village is an area to the east of the Downtown Commercial Core and this area was plagued by crime and homelessness for a long time. However, the area has seen an amount of redevelopment since the late 2000s. The neighbourhood is host to the $191 million National Music Centre of Canada, since the redevelopment has started, the neighbourhood has seen $2.7 billion worth of investment
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Rocky View County
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Rocky View County is a municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada that is named for its views of the nearby Rocky Mountains to the west. It surrounds most of Calgary, forming the northern boundary. At a population of 38,055 in 2013, Rocky View County is the most populous district in Alberta. Though predominantly rural in nature, Rocky View County is home to 14 hamlets, including Langdon and its rural areas are home to numerous country residential subdivisions. The Municipal District of Calgary No.44 was originally formed on January 1,1955 from part of Improvement District No.46,43, the MD of Conrich No. 44, the MD of Springbank No,45, the MD of Kneehill No. 48, and the MD of Mountain View No.49, the MD of Calgary No.44 was renamed the MD of Rocky View No.44 on January 9,1956. Rocky View was the successful entry selected in December 1955 in a competition to rename the newly formed municipal district. The entry was submitted by Leslie Burwash of Balzac, bow View and Chinook placed second and third respectively in the competition. The name Rocky View was successful due to its nature as most areas within the MD of Rocky View No.44 have views of the Rocky Mountains to the west. The MD of Rocky View No.44 had its name changed to the Rocky View County on June 24,2009, Rocky View County is located within the Calgary Region and forms part of the Calgary census metropolitan area. Being located along Highway 2, it is located within the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. The following localities are located within Rocky View County. 2% change from its 2011 population of 35,754, with a land area of 3,836.33 km2, it had a population density of 10. 3/km2 in 2016. Rocky View Countys 2013 municipal census counted a population of 38,055 and its previous 2006 municipal census counted a population of 34,597. In the 2011 Census, Rocky View County had a population of 36,461 living in 12,077 of its 12,810 total dwellings, with a land area of 3,885.41 km2, it had a population density of 9. 4/km2 in 2011. Following Airdrie’s 2011 annexation, Statistics Canada adjusted Rocky View Countys 2011 population downward by 707 people to 35,754. According to the 2006 federal census, Rocky View County had a population of 34,171 living in 11,604 dwellings and it had a land area of 4,014.89 km2 and a population density of 8. 5/km2. Municipal elections, organized by Alberta Municipal Affairs, are every four years
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Bus rapid transit
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Bus rapid transit is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of a metro with the flexibility, lower cost, the first BRT system was the Rede Integrada de Transporte in Curitiba, Brazil, which entered service in 1974. This inspired many similar systems around Brazil and the world, such as TransMilenio in Bogotá, Colombia, as of November 2016, a total of 207 cities in six continents have implemented BRT systems, accounting for 5,468 km of BRT lanes. The Latin American countries with the most daily ridership are Brazil, Colombia, in the other regions, China and Iran also stand out. Currently, TransJakarta considered as the longest BRT route in the world with approximately 210 kilometres length connecting the Indonesian capital city, BRT uses buses on a wide variety of rights-of-way, including mixed traffic, dedicated lanes on surface streets, and busways separated from traffic. Critics have charged that the bus rapid transit has sometimes been misapplied to systems that lack most or all the essential features which differentiate it from conventional bus services. The first BRT system in the world was the Rede Integrada de Transporte, implemented in Curitiba, Brazil, most of the elements that have become associated with BRT were innovations first suggested by Curitiba Mayor Architect Jaime Lerner. Other systems made further innovations, including platooning in Porto Alegre, in the United States, BRT began in 1977, with Pittsburghs South Busway, operating on 4.3 miles of exclusive lanes. Its success led to the Martin Luther King Jr, east Busway in 1983, a fuller BRT deployment including a dedicated busway of 9.1 miles, traffic signal preemption, and peak service headway as low as two minutes. After the opening of the West Busway,5.1 miles in length in 1990, new Orleans ran buses on Canal Street in a dedicated right of way beginning in the 1960s. This style of service was maintained until 2004 when streetcar service was restored on this 4-mile route segment, in 1995, Quito, Ecuador, opened trolleybus BRT. The success of TransMilenio spurred other cities to develop high quality BRT systems, in January 2004 the first BRT in Asia, TransJakarta, opened in Jakarta, Indonesia. As of 2015, at 210 kilometres, it is the longest BRT system in the world, africas first BRT system was opened in Lagos, Nigeria, in March 2008 but is considered as a light BRT system by many people. Johannesburg’s BRT, Rea Vaya, was the first true BRT in Africa, in August 2009, Rea Vaya and MIO were the first two systems to combine full BRT with some services that also operated in mixed traffic, then joined the BRT trunk infrastructure. BRT systems normally include most of the features, Bus-only lanes make for faster travel. Separate rights of way may be elevated, in a cutting, or in a tunnel, Transit malls or bus streets may also be created in city centers. Centre of roadway or bus-only corridor keeps buses away from the busy curb-side, fare prepayment at the station, instead of on board the bus, eliminates the delay caused by passengers paying on board. Prohibiting turns for traffic across the bus lane significantly reduces delays to the buses, Bus priority will often be provided at signalized intersections to reduce delays by extending the green phase or reducing the red phase in the required direction compared to the normal sequence
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Partial cloverleaf interchange
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A partial cloverleaf interchange or parclo is a modification of a cloverleaf interchange. The design has been received, and has since become one of the most popular freeway-to-arterial interchange designs in North America. It has also used occasionally in some European countries, such as Germany, Croatia, Italy, the Netherlands. A diamond interchange has four ramps, a cloverleaf interchange has eight ramps, as does a stack interchange. These are fully separated, unlike a parclo - traffic flows without stops on all ramps. A parclo has four or six ramps, not very common are five ramps to handle a specific demand, in Ontario, the specific variation is identified by a letter/number suffix after the name. Other jurisdictions do not have naming conventions, so Ontarios naming conventions are used in this article, the letter A designates that two ramps meet the freeway before the driver crosses the arterial road, while B designates that two ramps meet the freeway past the crossing. The number designates how many quadrants of the interchange contain ramps, in left-hand drive countries, the ramps function the same as in right-hand drive countries, but ramps with the same designation appear visually reversed. Common parclo configurations include the Parclo A2, Parclo B2 and Parclo A4, Parclo A2 and B2 configurations contain four ramps. On each side of the freeway there is a loop ramp, in Parclo A2, the loop ramps serve as on-ramps and the directional ramps serve as off-ramps. In Parclo B2 the roles are reversed, both on- and off-ramps require controlled intersections at the arterial road. The Parclo A2 and B2 ramps are usually longer and allow for higher speeds than their A4 counterparts because of rural land availability. It is possible to upgrade an A2 to an A4 by adding directional ramps, the Parclo A-4 contains 6 ramps. On each side on the freeway, there is a ramp, followed by a loop ramp. This also makes sense since freeways have a higher capacity than arterials and right-turn ramps serve effectively to absorb capacity. Some parclos have the right-turning on-ramp leave the road after the exit ramp intersection. This configuration is used when another road meets the freeway off-ramp. Traffic exiting the freeway to the road is provided with a long, relatively straight exit ramp
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Medicine Hat
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Medicine Hat is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada. It is approximately 169 km east of Lethbridge and 295 km southeast of Calgary and this city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff to the northwest are surrounded by Cypress County. Medicine Hat was the sixth-largest city in Alberta in 2016 with a population of 63,230, Medicine Hat is situated on the Trans-Canada Highway, the eastern terminus of the Crowsnest Highway, and the South Saskatchewan River. Nearby communities considered part of the Medicine Hat area include the Town of Redcliff and the hamlets of Desert Blume, Dunmore, Irvine, Seven Persons, the Cypress Hills is a relatively short distance to the southeast of the city. Historically, Medicine Hat has been known for its natural gas fields. Because of these reserves, the city is known as The Gas City, the name Medicine Hat is the English translation of Saamis – the Blackfoot word for the eagle tail feather headdress worn by medicine men – or Medicine Hat. Another legend tells of a long ago between the Blackfoot and the Cree in which a retreating Cree Medicine Man lost his headdress in the South Saskatchewan River. A number of factors have always made Medicine Hat a natural gathering place, before Europeans arrived, the Blackfoot, Cree and Assiniboine nations used the area for hundreds of years. The gently sloping valley with its waterways and hardy native cottonwood trees attracted both humans and the migratory bison herds which passed through the area. In 1883, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached Medicine Hat, as the west developed, Medicine Hat became instrumental with the development of the first hospital past Winnipeg in 1889 and as a CPR divisional point. It was incorporated as a town on October 31,1898, Medicine Hat is halfway between Winnipeg and Vancouver. Rich in natural resources including natural gas, coal, clay, and farmland, a number of large industries located here, under the inducement of cheap and plentiful energy resources. Coal mines, brick works, pottery and glass bottle manufacturing plants, flour mills, the agricultural potential of the surrounding area, both in crop and livestock, also made the town a viable service centre with a well established transportation route. An economic boom was experienced between 1909–1914 bringing the population to over 10,000, little growth occurred between the World Wars, although the population swelled in the mid-1940s due to the town hosting one of the largest Second World War P. O. W. It was not until the 1950s that the town experienced significant commercial development. Today, Medicine Hat prides itself as one of the most economical places to live in Canada, with its unique city-owned gas utility and power generation plant being predominant factors. Major industries have included chemical plants, a Goodyear tire and rubber plant, greenhouses, numerous oil and gas related companies, the Medicine Hat landscape is dominated by the South Saskatchewan River valley. In addition to this river, both the Seven Persons Creek and Ross Creek empty into the South Saskatchewan River within the City of Medicine Hat boundary
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Concurrency (road)
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A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers. When two freeways share the same right-of-way, it is called a common section or commons. Other terminology for a concurrency includes overlap, coincidence, duplex, triplex, multiplex, concurrent numbering can become very common in countries that allow it. In some countries, however, concurrent numbering is avoided by posting only one number on road signs. Criticism of concurrencies include environmental intrusion, as well as being considered a factor in road accidents, most concurrencies are simply a combination of two route numbers on the same physical road. This is often advantageous as well as economically advantageous, it may be better for two route numbers to be combined into one along riverways or through mountain valleys. Some nations allow for concurrencies to occur, however, some nations specifically do not allow it to happen, in those nations which do permit concurrencies, it can become very common. In these countries, there are a variety of concurrences which can occur, an example of this is the concurrency of I-70 and I-76 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in western Pennsylvania. A triple Interstate concurrency is found north of Madison, Wisconsin, with I-39, I-90, Wisconsin has another triple Interstate concurrency along the five-mile section of I-41, I-43, and I-894 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The concurrency of I-41 and I-43 on this roadway is an example of a wrong-way concurrency, the longest Interstate highway concurrency is I-80 and I-90 for 265 miles across Indiana and Ohio. There are examples of eight-way concurrencies, I-465 around Indianapolis and Georgia State Route 10 Loop around downtown Athens, Georgia. Portions of the 53-mile I-465 overlap with I-74, US31, US36, US40, US52, US421, SR37, seven of the eight other designations overlap between exits 46 and 47 to create an eight-way concurrency. In the United States, concurrencies are simply marked by placing signs for both routes on the same or adjacent posts, the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices prescribes that when mounting these adjacent signs together that the numbers will be arranged vertically or horizontally in order of precedence. The order to be used is Interstate Highways, U. S. Highways, state highways, and finally county roads, several states do not officially have any concurrencies, instead officially ending routes on each side of one. There are several circumstances where unusual concurrencies exist along state borders, one example occurs along the Oklahoma–Arkansas state line. At the northern end of this border Oklahoma State Highway 20 runs concurrently with Arkansas Highway 43, concurrencies are also found in Canada. In Manitoba, the Trans-Canada Highway from Winnipeg to Portage la Prairie is concurrently signed with Yellowhead Highway, in Ontario, the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 run concurrently between Burlington and Oakville, forming the provinces only concurrency between two 400-series highways. In the United Kingdom, routes do not run concurrently with others, where this would normally occur, the roadway takes the number of only one of the routes, while the other routes are considered to have a gap and are signed in brackets
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Interchange (road)
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It differs from a standard intersection, at which roads cross at grade. Note, The descriptions of road junctions are for countries where vehicles drive on the side of the road. For countries where driving is on the left the layout of the junctions is the same, a freeway junction or highway interchange or motorway junction is a type of road junction, linking one controlled-access highway to another, to other roads, or to a rest area/motorway service area. On the UK motorway network, most junctions with roads are numbered sequentially. In the U. S. interchanges are numbered according to cardinal interchange number. A highway ramp or slip road is a section of road which allows vehicles to enter or exit a controlled-access highway. A directional ramp always tends toward the direction of travel. This means that a ramp that makes a left turn exits from the side of the roadway. Left directional ramps are relatively uncommon as the lane is usually reserved for high-speed through traffic. Ramps for a turn are almost always right directional ramps. Where traffic drives on the left, these cases are reversed, a non-directional ramp goes in a direction opposite to the desired direction of travel. A semi-directional ramp exits a road in a direction opposite from the direction of travel. A U-turn ramp leaves the road in one driving direction, turns over or under it, weaving is an undesirable situation in which traffic veering right and traffic veering left must cross paths within a limited distance, to merge with traffic on the through lane. Some on-ramps have a meter, which is a dedicated ramp-only traffic light that throttles the flow of entering vehicles. A complete interchange has ramps to provide access from any direction of any road in the junction to any direction of any other road in the junction. A complete interchange between a freeway and another road requires at least four ramps, complete interchanges between two freeways generally have at least eight ramps, as having fewer would considerably reduce capacity and increase weaving. Depending on the type and the connectivity offered other numbers of ramps may be used. For highways with high-occupancy vehicle lanes, ramps can be used to service these carriageways directly, an incomplete interchange has at least one or more missing ramps that prevent access to at least one direction of another road in the junction from any other road in the junction
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Route number
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The numbers chosen may be used solely for internal administrative purposes, however, in most cases they are also displayed on roadside signage and indicated on maps. In the United Kingdom, the number consists of a letter followed by a number of up to 4 digits. For example, the main road from London to Edinburgh is called the A1. The A2, A3, A4, A5, A6 also radiate out from London to points around the coast, all classified roads starting in the zone between the A1 and the A2 begin with the figure 1, etc. Scotland is similarly divided into zones by the A7, A8, motorways are marked by an M, for example the M25, which forms a ring road around London. Motorways are fast freeways and are larger than A roads. Motorways follow different zoning and numbering systems from A and B roads, a similar clock-face zonal system is used in many other European countries. Common route number used in the United States In the United States. There are two national-level route numbering systems, the older United States Numbered Highway System laid out in 1920s, additionally, every state in the U. S. maintains its own set of numbered state highways. Some states have other systems as well, either a system of numbered county highways or secondary state highways, a few cities also have numbered city highways, for example, the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, maintains Charlotte Route 4. The U. S. Highway System, indicated by a shield with black numbers, is based on a numbering grid, with odd routes running generally north–south. Primary routes have a one- or two-digit number, and are supplemented by spur routes that add a digit to their parent route. Routes increase from east-to-west and north-to-south, such that U. S. Route 1 follows the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, likewise U. S. Route 2 runs near the Canadian border, while U. S. Route 98 follows the Gulf Coast. Major cross-country routes end in either a 1 or a 0, Routes like U. S. Route 141 and U. S. Route 441 branch off U. S. Route 41. The now defunct U. S. Route 66, known as the Mother Road, was a cultural touchstone that inspired literature, songs, the Interstate Highway System, indicated by a red and blue shield with white numbers, is a system of entirely freeways. The Interstate System is also based on a grid, with east–west routes bearing even numbers, like with U. S. Highways, subsidiary routes are numbered by adding a hundreds digit to the parent route. Because of the number of these routes, three-digit numbers may be repeated within the system. The numbering system for state highways varies widely from state to state, each state decides how to number its own routes
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Transportation in Calgary
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The city of Calgary, Alberta, has a large transportation network that encompasses a variety of road, rail, air, public transit, and pedestrian infrastructure. Calgary is also a major Canadian transportation centre and a cargo hub for freight in. The city sits at the junction between the Canamex highway system and the Trans-Canada Highway, as a prairie city, Calgary has never had any major impediments to growth. As such, it has developed into a city with an area of about 745 km2 and this outward growth has encouraged the development of an extensive personal vehicle-oriented road network complete with a freeway system. Since 1981, when the city opened the first leg of its CTrain rapid transit system. The CTrain now has a higher ridership than any other rail system in any other North American city with 309900 boardings per weekday. Cycling is also seen as an alternative to driving in Calgary. In recent years, increases in the population and density of city neighbourhoods such as the Beltline have favoured greater pedestrianism as well. Calgarys primary public transportation system is operated by Calgary Transit, the service operates only within Calgary city limits and does not provide transportation to and from other communities within the Calgary Region. Some communities within Calgarys metropolitan area provide their own transit services, Calgary Transit is owned and managed by the City of Calgary. The light rail system, known as the C-Train, consists of 58.5 km of track connecting 45 stations and was one of the first such systems in North America. Until very recently, Calgary and Edmonton were the only two North American cities with populations under one million to operate rapid transit systems. Travel between stations along 7th Avenue in downtown is free-of-charge, unique to the C-Train system, its power is completely wind generated and completely free of emissions. An extension of the Route 202 line was built to serve some Southwest communities to the west of downtown. The project is called the WestLRT and was completed in December 2012, Calgary Transit also has a system of buses, with routes stretching over the whole city. It has won awards for its efficiency and its environmental responsibility. It consists of over 160 bus routes and four C-Train lines, Calgary has an extensive street network. Smaller roads are supplemented with a number of arteries, expressways and freeways
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Google
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Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph. D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and they incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4,1998. An initial public offering took place on August 19,2004, in August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabets leading subsidiary, will continue to be the company for Alphabets Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Googles core search engine. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, the new hardware chief, Rick Osterloh, stated, a lot of the innovation that we want to do now ends up requiring controlling the end-to-end user experience. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier, alexa, a company that monitors commercial web traffic, lists Google. com as the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube, Googles mission statement, from the outset, was to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful, and its unofficial slogan was Dont be evil. In October 2015, the motto was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the phrase Do the right thing, Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. They called this new technology PageRank, it determined a websites relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine BackRub, because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Originally, Google ran under Stanford Universitys website, with the domains google. stanford. edu, the domain name for Google was registered on September 15,1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4,1998. It was based in the garage of a friend in Menlo Park, craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. The first funding for Google was an August 1998 contribution of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given before Google was incorporated. At least three other investors invested in 1998, Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos, Stanford University computer science professor David Cheriton. Author Ken Auletta claims that each invested $250,000, early in 1999, Brin and Page decided they wanted to sell Google to Excite. They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million, vinod Khosla, one of Excites venture capitalists, talked the duo down to $750,000, but Bell still rejected it. Googles initial public offering took place five years later, on August 19,2004, at that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024
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Google Maps
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Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, Google maps began as a C++ desktop program designed by Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application, after additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a realtime traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The services front end utilizes JavaScript, XML, and Ajax, Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for urban businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google Map Maker allows users to expand and update the services mapping worldwide. Much of the satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular basis. Google Maps uses a variant of the Mercator projection. The current redesigned version of the application was made available in 2013. Google Maps for mobile was released in September 2008 and features GPS turn-by-turn navigation, in August 2013, it was determined to be the worlds most popular app for smartphones, with over 54% of global smartphone owners using it at least once. In 2012, Google reported having over 7,100 employees, Google Maps provides a route planner under Get Directions. Up to four modes of transportation are available depending on the area, driving, public transit, walking, in combination with Google Street View, issues such as parking, turning lanes, and one-way streets can be viewed before traveling. China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Jordan, Lebanon, only public transit directions are provided for South Korea. All countries of mainland North and Central America are covered contiguously, all countries of mainland South America are covered. All countries including Trinidad and Tobago* are treated contiguously, all inhabited countries and territories in the Caribbean are covered, though in general there are no connections between islands. Like many other Google web applications, Google Maps uses JavaScript extensively, as the user drags the map, the grid squares are downloaded from the server and inserted into the page. When a user searches for a business, the results are downloaded in the background for insertion into the panel and map. Locations are drawn dynamically by positioning a red pin on top of the map images, a hidden IFrame with form submission is used because it preserves browser history. The site also uses JSON for data rather than XML
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Sarcee Trail
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Sarcee Trail is a major super-4 expressway and trunk road in Calgary, Alberta. It is divided into two portions, one in the end of the city, and one in the north end of the city. Originally planned as one route, plans to connect the two halves have been shelved as it would involve the demolition of home in Bowness. The urban arterial road is named for the Tsuu Tina, who were known as the Sarcee. Sarcee Trail is signed as bypass route which connects Highway 1 west, Sarcee Trail crosses the divide between the southwest and northwest quadrants of the city at 16 Avenue NW. The entire route is in Calgary, the northern half of Sarcee Trail travels between the communities of Silver Springs in the south and Nolan Hill in the north. It starts at the intersection of Crowchild Trail and Silver Springs Gate, a short road formerly part of Sarcee Trail, heading northbound, Sarcee Trail continues along until it hits 144 Avenue NW, acting as the divider between several communities along the way. The entire route is in Calgary
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Crowchild Trail
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Crowchild Trail is a major expressway in west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The segment from 12 Mile Coulee Road to 16 Avenue NE is designated as Highway 1A by Alberta Transportation, Crowchild Trails south terminus is located at North Glenmore Park as a minor arterial road. Continuing northward, its first major intersection is with Glenmore Trail at an interchange that was built in 1981, the speed limit on the freeway sections are 80 km/h. After 24 Avenue NW the road veers northwest, and once again becomes a freeway until the Stoney Trail ring road. Part of this road was the Morley Trail when it was an actual trail and it was first paved in the 1930s. It then became the highway to Banff and was the home of Eamons Bungalow Camp. When the Trans-Canada Highway was created it dropped in importance, in March 1971, it was renamed Crowchild Trail in honour of David Crowchild, Chief of the Tsuu Tina Nation from 1946 to 1953. From south to north, the intersections are observed along Crowchild Trail. The entire route is in Calgary
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Centre Street (Calgary)
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Centre Street is a major road in Calgary, Alberta. The road resumes north of the bus trap at Beddington Trail. When the boulevard crosses Stoney Trail, the name reverts to Centre Street, Centre Street North runs through the communities of Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills and Beddington Heights. The portion north of Stoney Trail passes through a section of the city. In most of the part of Calgary, Macleod Trail forms the central line. Centre Street, defines the east and west halves of the city for the purposes of street addresses. In the downtown section, Centre Street is lined by some of Calgarys landmark buildings, such as the Suncor Energy Centre, the Encana Bow tower is being built along Centre Street. It was designed by John F. Green, featured an upper and lower deck and it went through extensive restoration in 2001, when the bridge was closed for one year. The opening scene of the 2001 Steven Seagal movie Exit Wounds was filmed on the bridge during this closure, the following Calgary Transit bus routes serves Centre Street, Route 2 Killarney 17th Ave
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Macleod Trail
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Macleod Trail is a major road in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is a six- to eight-lane principal arterial road extending from downtown Calgary to the south of the city, south of Anderson Road, Macleod Trail is an expressway and is slated to be upgraded to a freeway in the future. It is named for its destination to the south, Fort Macleod, the road effectively divides the south-west and the south-east quadrants of the city, and many communities were developed along its course. Macleod Trail constitutes one of the four major north-south corridors of the city, in the downtown section, the road passes by Calgary City Hall, Olympic Plaza, the Calgary Public Library, and the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts. The southern leg of the C-Train LRT system is developed along Macleod Trail. In November 2007, Calgary City Council approved a planning study for the portion of Macleod Trail that extends from Anderson Road north to Downtown. Expected recommendations include interchanges at Heritage Drive and Southland Drive, as well as traffic signal refinements. In addition, three other locations are planned to be constructed within ten years. They are at the intersection with Lake Fraser Gate, at the intersection with 162 Avenue and this would make Macleod Trail a freeway from Anderson Road to the city limits. From north to south, Transportation in Calgary
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Edmonton Trail
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Edmonton Trail is a major north-south arterial road in the north-east quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The road connects Downtown Calgary from the Langevin Bridge and the 4th Street Bridge at Memorial Drive with north-central Calgary, between 6th Avenue North and Trans-Canada Highway, Edmonton Trail is lined with restaurants and retail businesses. The more modern trail was blazed by John Alexander McDougall in 1873 as far as Morley, the northern terminus, called Calgary Trail, is a major arterial in south Edmonton. The street lies in the heart of the Italian community of Calgary, being the location of the first Italian lodge, many Italian restaurants and stores still line the street. The spurs re-unite at the 3rd Avenue North alignment, and continue as a two way road northwards between the communities of Bridgeland and Crescent Heights and it then crosses 16 Avenue NE, continues between the communities of Winston Heights and Tuxedo Park. North of the 32 Avenue NE, it passes through an industrial district. It is continued for a stretch to the north by 4 Street NE into the community of Thorncliffe
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Country Hills Boulevard
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Country Hills Boulevard is a major arterial road in Calgary, Alberta. It is notably one of the few north of 16 Avenue N that is mostly continuous from the west end of the city to the east end. East of Calgary, Country Hills Boulevard continues as Alberta Highway 564, west of Calgary, it continues as Hamilton Drive as it passes through the Bearspaw Country Club. In the Country Hills area, there is Coventry Hills Blvd, construction of the housing development started in late 1993 to early 1994. From 1994 they were just building the homes and it was just farm land all the way from Coventry Hills to Beddington using a back road. In 1997 they started construction on the mall where the Studio 16 theatre and Sobeys, from 1998 throughout the millennium, they added more housing developments and more stores all the way to Beddington. That back road is now a main road, Country Hills Boulevard begins in the west at Twelve Mile Coulee Road, the western city limit. It then continues on past Deerfoot Trail and then Stoney Trail
Deerfoot Trail (Hwy 2)
Stoney Trail (Hwy 201)
Hwy 1 (TCH) – Calgary (16 Avenue N), Medicine Hat