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Calgary Herald

5 June 1905

 

 

CALGARY, CANADA

 

Condensed Directory

 

Population ----- 12,600

 

CITY OFFICIALS:

 

Name:                                      Position:

                                               

Emerson , John             Mayor

Gillis, H. E.                               City Clerk

Burns, Thomas S.                     City Treasurer

Thoroid, F. W.                         City Engineer

Smith, J. B. &  K.C.                 City Solicitor

English, Thomas                        Chief of Police

Smart, James                            Chief of Fire Department

Hornby, James                         Aldermen

Ramsay, S. A 

Thompson,  R.

Brooklebank, R.  

Clark, S. J.

Jones, C. T.

Thomas, K.C.

Stuart, C. A.

Head, Wm.

 

BOARD OF TRADE:

Peterson, Charles W.                Secretary

 

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: 

Sutherland, J. R.                       Dominion Lands: 

Winn, James                             Immigration, 

 

CONVEINIENCES:

Waterworks, sewers, electric light, gas, telephone, two daily newspapers, two theatres.

 

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS:

Western Canada College,  Bow Valley Girls’ School, seven public schools, manual training school, high school,  convent.

 

CHURCHES: 

Anglican, Roman Catholic, German Baptist, Lutheran,  Moravian,  Salvation Army.

 

FINANCIAL INSTITUTION:

The city has 8 banks.  Most of them occupy their own buildings.

 

RAILWAY SERVICES:

Daily as follows: Northbound 7:45; from north, 17:30; Southbound, 16:00; from south, 12:15; eastbound, 1:30; westbound, 2:20.

 

CLIMATE AND SURROUNDINGS:

Ideal for health seekers, sportsmen, tourists. etc.

 

STREETS:

Laid out rectangularly. Those running east and west are called avenues, and are numbered consecutively, First avenue being farthest north.  Streets, running north and south, are numbered east and west from Centre Street.

 

HOUSE NUMBERS:

On streets, number from 100 to 200 lie south of first avenue; from 200 to 300 between Second and Third Avenues, etc. On Avenues, from Centre St. to first street west, numbers run from 100 to 200;  between First and Second west, from 200 up, etc. Even numbers on North side of Avenues, odd numbers on South. On streets, even numbers on east side, odd on west.

 

Extracted by Tracie Rose 2006-11-25