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- BIRKS BUILDING
The Birks Building was designed by Nobbs and Hyde, an architectural firm of national significance. Percy Nobbs, who collaborated with Cecil Burgess on the Birks Building, also designed the original master plan for the University of Alberta. - BOWKER BUILDING
Though it matches the Legislature Building in style, the Bowker Building was actually constructed in 1931, almost twenty years later, and just one year after the Art Deco Federal Public Building was designed. - BURNS BUILDING
This building was constructed by and for Senator Patrick Burns who, between the years 1890 and 1928, established one of the largest meat packing and provisions businesses in the world. - BURY RESIDENCE
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury was born in Ireland in 1869. He received an MA degree from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1890 and came to Edmonton in 1912. - CALGARY CITY HALL
Calgary City Hall, praised as “the most modern city hall west of Toronto,” was once the centre of a raging controversy. - CALGARY COURTHOUSE #2
This was the second courthouse built in Calgary; the first had been built on the same block in 1886 by the Federal government. - CALGARY FIREHALL #1
Firehall #1, despite its name, was not the first firehall in Calgary. - CALGARY LEGION HALL #1
In 1915, returning soldiers world-wide began to band together, forming the Great War Veteran’s Association. - CALGARY PUBLIC BUILDING
The Calgary Public Building was opened by Prime Minister R.B. Bennett on August 21, 1931. - CAMPBELL HOUSE, 1903
Duncan John Campbell was born in St. Hilaire, Quebec in 1855. He remained in Eastern Canada until 1882 when a request by Lieutenant Colonel Irvine, Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police, brought him to Fort Macleod.