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CALGARY , the See also:oldest See also:city in the See also:province of See also:Alberta. Pop. (1901) 4091; (1907) 21,112. It is situated in 114° 15' W., and 51°42' N., on the See also:Bow See also:river, which flows with its crystal See also:waters from the pass in the Rocky Mountains, by which the See also:main See also:line of the See also:Canadian Pacific railway crosses the Rocky Mountains. The pass proper—Kananaskis—penetrates the mountains beginning 40 M. See also:west of Calgary, and the well-known watering-See also:place, See also:Banff, lies 81 m. west of it, in the Canadian See also:national See also:park. The streets are wide and laid out on a rectangular See also:system. The buildings are largely of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, the See also:building stone used being the See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:Laramie See also:sandstone found in the valley of the Bow river in the neighbourhood of the city. Calgary is an important point on the Canadian Pacific railway, which has a See also:general See also:superintendent See also:resident here. It is an important centre of wholesale dealers, and also of See also:industrial establishments. Calgary is near the site of Fort La Jonquiere founded by the See also:French in 1752. Old Bow fort was. a trading See also:post for many years though now in ruins. The See also:present city was created by the building of the Canadian Pacific railway about 1883.
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