Calgary doesn’t like mind readers — or at least it sure looked that way once.
While coal agents, cow keepers and peanut vendors paid just a few bucks for a business licence long ago, mind readers had to shell out $500 to ply their trade in the “Sunshine City of the Foothills.”
Only a handful of other enterprises paid more, like the circus.This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game.
In 1941, when the average Canadian wage was $150 a month, you didn’t need to read minds to know you weren’t wanted.
But that’s just one of the things we learned as the Herald delved into the archives to better understand our city and the development of our neighbourhoods as part of Project Calgary.
In doing so, we found some interesting, entertaining and wonderfully peculiar tidbits about Calgary, such as the huge fees demanded of mind readers.
We thought it would be fun to look 70 years into the past by digging into the pages of the 1941 Municipal Manual — Presenting Interesting Information and Authoritative Statistics — to see what we can learn about the city and its then 85,726 residents.
And the first thing that’s clear is Calgary could talk a pretty good game, even after the Great Depression and with the uncertainty of the Second World War.
“Perhaps no city of its size on this continent possesses such fines stores and business buildings or a large number of comfortable and beautiful homes,” according to the manual’s opening lines.
It also boasts of “unusual” shopping facilities and theatres that provide the best in “drama, vaudeville and pictures.” Making their debuts in those theatres were the likes of Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon or The Wolf Man.
To get to the flicks, a Calgarian might take one of the city’s dozen “modern pay-as-you-enter” street cars of Calgary Municipal Railway, which was renamed the Calgary Transit System in 1946.
The city had only two buses,As a professional manufacturer of China ceramic tile in China, serving Mount Royal and Rosedale. An adult fare cost a dime.
The street car system also played a notable role in how neighbourhoods developed until 1941. With limited automobile use, many homes were built near these street car lines and on the traditional grid street pattern. Most residential development was focused near the core,MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, though there was some development close to industrial hubs at Ogden and Alyth.
Calgary wasn’t exactly coming off a building boom, however.
Between 1911 and 1941, only 6,055 houses were built.
In the book Calgary: Canada’s Frontier Metropolis, historian Max Foran notes the severe housing shortage Calgary faced in 1941. One resident sought to convert his chicken coop into an apartment.
The situation spurred the city to sell land at steep discounts. For instance,Buy oil paintings for sale online. 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in Glendale fetched just $500.
The policy was dropped a few years later. But, as Foran notes, it was a decision that had lasting implications for civic control of future land development in Calgary.
The municipal manual also tells its readers a few things about local industry, with the oilpatch featuring prominently. These days, there may be debate about adding refineries and upgraders in the province. But in 1941?
Calgary had four refineries and a combined production capacity of 15,100 barrels a day — a boon for the economy of the day, but one that would have environmental consequences decades later.
There were other enterprises, as well, with many linked to agriculture. Yet, among a long list of local industries were also cigars, soap and a Ford assembly plant.
The cost of a new automobile back then was $850, or nearly $12,000 in today’s dollars.
That may sound like a bargain now, but a new car was a postwar dream for most folks. The manual reports there was 12,996 passenger automobiles in the city in 1940.
To relax, Calgary families might have visited St. George’s Island or Riley Park. They could go swimming in Bowness Park. The manual also lists seven golf courses.
If you were adventurous and had an automobile, the guide advises readers to make the three-hour journey to picturesque Banff.
At City Hall — the sandstone building Calgarians today call Old City Hall — it seemed municipal staff was already dealing with cramped quarters.
“The City Hall had not sufficient space to accommodate all the city’s executive offices,An Air purifier is a device which removes contaminants from the air. and the interior has been remodelled in part to try and solve the difficulty,” the manual explains.
If the public had a complaint, they could try calling their alderman — or maybe just show up at the politician’s house.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi is frequently available on Twitter in 2011, but the old municipal manual actually published Mayor Andrew Davison’s home phone number and address, 1630 4A St. N.W.
It was the samefor all of council’s 12 aldermen, as well as the city commissioner, city solicitor, chief of police, various superintendents and so on.
Back in 1941, Calgary also had 102 firefighters (today there are 1,300), 99 police officers (more than 1,800 today) — and 97 newsboys to alert the public to the latest updates.
In the news that year was the death of Henry Wise Wood, the politician, activist and president of the United Farmers of Alberta who has a southwest Calgary high school named after him.
While coal agents, cow keepers and peanut vendors paid just a few bucks for a business licence long ago, mind readers had to shell out $500 to ply their trade in the “Sunshine City of the Foothills.”
Only a handful of other enterprises paid more, like the circus.This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game.
In 1941, when the average Canadian wage was $150 a month, you didn’t need to read minds to know you weren’t wanted.
But that’s just one of the things we learned as the Herald delved into the archives to better understand our city and the development of our neighbourhoods as part of Project Calgary.
In doing so, we found some interesting, entertaining and wonderfully peculiar tidbits about Calgary, such as the huge fees demanded of mind readers.
We thought it would be fun to look 70 years into the past by digging into the pages of the 1941 Municipal Manual — Presenting Interesting Information and Authoritative Statistics — to see what we can learn about the city and its then 85,726 residents.
And the first thing that’s clear is Calgary could talk a pretty good game, even after the Great Depression and with the uncertainty of the Second World War.
“Perhaps no city of its size on this continent possesses such fines stores and business buildings or a large number of comfortable and beautiful homes,” according to the manual’s opening lines.
It also boasts of “unusual” shopping facilities and theatres that provide the best in “drama, vaudeville and pictures.” Making their debuts in those theatres were the likes of Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon or The Wolf Man.
To get to the flicks, a Calgarian might take one of the city’s dozen “modern pay-as-you-enter” street cars of Calgary Municipal Railway, which was renamed the Calgary Transit System in 1946.
The city had only two buses,As a professional manufacturer of China ceramic tile in China, serving Mount Royal and Rosedale. An adult fare cost a dime.
The street car system also played a notable role in how neighbourhoods developed until 1941. With limited automobile use, many homes were built near these street car lines and on the traditional grid street pattern. Most residential development was focused near the core,MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, though there was some development close to industrial hubs at Ogden and Alyth.
Calgary wasn’t exactly coming off a building boom, however.
Between 1911 and 1941, only 6,055 houses were built.
In the book Calgary: Canada’s Frontier Metropolis, historian Max Foran notes the severe housing shortage Calgary faced in 1941. One resident sought to convert his chicken coop into an apartment.
The situation spurred the city to sell land at steep discounts. For instance,Buy oil paintings for sale online. 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in Glendale fetched just $500.
The policy was dropped a few years later. But, as Foran notes, it was a decision that had lasting implications for civic control of future land development in Calgary.
The municipal manual also tells its readers a few things about local industry, with the oilpatch featuring prominently. These days, there may be debate about adding refineries and upgraders in the province. But in 1941?
Calgary had four refineries and a combined production capacity of 15,100 barrels a day — a boon for the economy of the day, but one that would have environmental consequences decades later.
There were other enterprises, as well, with many linked to agriculture. Yet, among a long list of local industries were also cigars, soap and a Ford assembly plant.
The cost of a new automobile back then was $850, or nearly $12,000 in today’s dollars.
That may sound like a bargain now, but a new car was a postwar dream for most folks. The manual reports there was 12,996 passenger automobiles in the city in 1940.
To relax, Calgary families might have visited St. George’s Island or Riley Park. They could go swimming in Bowness Park. The manual also lists seven golf courses.
If you were adventurous and had an automobile, the guide advises readers to make the three-hour journey to picturesque Banff.
At City Hall — the sandstone building Calgarians today call Old City Hall — it seemed municipal staff was already dealing with cramped quarters.
“The City Hall had not sufficient space to accommodate all the city’s executive offices,An Air purifier is a device which removes contaminants from the air. and the interior has been remodelled in part to try and solve the difficulty,” the manual explains.
If the public had a complaint, they could try calling their alderman — or maybe just show up at the politician’s house.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi is frequently available on Twitter in 2011, but the old municipal manual actually published Mayor Andrew Davison’s home phone number and address, 1630 4A St. N.W.
It was the samefor all of council’s 12 aldermen, as well as the city commissioner, city solicitor, chief of police, various superintendents and so on.
Back in 1941, Calgary also had 102 firefighters (today there are 1,300), 99 police officers (more than 1,800 today) — and 97 newsboys to alert the public to the latest updates.
In the news that year was the death of Henry Wise Wood, the politician, activist and president of the United Farmers of Alberta who has a southwest Calgary high school named after him.
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