Calgary—The Stampede City
The beautiful landscapes, the innocent country life and festivals, the romance of ivory white snow covered lands, the enchanting rockies and the luke warm chinook winds in Calgary offer enough imagery for Wordsworthian poetry.
Calgary, popularly known as “the Stampede City”, is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. Calgary, located in southern Alberta and south of Edmonton, at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers, is the largest city in the province. It is also called ‘Gateway to the Rockies’ for being situated in a region of foothills and high plains, approximately 80 km east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.
Calgary was named by Colonel James Macleod after Calgary, the finest sand beach on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. A resident of Calgary is known as a Calgarian.
It is also dubbed as ‘Cowtown’ as it hosts the annual Calgary Stampede, a famous rodeo dating since 1912.
Located within the relatively densely populated ‘Calgary-Edmonton Corridor’— Calgary is the largest Canadian metropolitan area west of Toronto and east of Vancouver. It is the third largest city, by population, in Canada. Its estimated metropolitan population (CMA) in 2005 was 1,060,300.
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