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TransCanadaHighway.com Calgary, Alberta
Calgary is a vibrant city of 1,000,000, located within breathtaking sight of the
Canadian Rockies. The city's population has doubled over the past 20 years, when it hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Calgary is the head office city for Canada's "oil patch", which includes not just the major gas station chains, but more importantly the explororers and producers of the oil that gets to the gas stations and the gas that heats Canada's homes.
Calgary has a compact and very modern downtown core with tall,
mirrored skyscrapers on the edge of the always-blue Bow River. The city is a
magnet for those who love outdoors, with Nose Hill Park in the north, Fish Creek
Provincial park in the city's south end, an the parklands along the banks of
the Bow and Elbow rivers cutting through the city's centre.
And of course, its only an hour drive to the scenic
wonders of Banff and the Rocky Mountains!
The city's weather generally features wide-open blue skies, but the
temperatures can be quite unpredictable. We can get July weather in January, courtesy
of the famous Chinook winds. which not only warm temperatures by 20C in a few
hours, but literally sucks the snow off the ground. Of course, being so close
to the mountains, we can get the ocassional sprinkle of snow in any month,
including July. By the way, the area's ski season usually goes from
mid-November until the Victoria Day Weekend.
Whether it's a visit to the zoo, an art gallery or the mountains, Calgary offers its visitors and residents lots to do every day of the week.
The city has over two dozen museums, a number of top-rated sports teams playing hockey, football, and lacrosse that keep sports fans busy year-round.
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