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Calgary   /kˈælgəri/   Listen
Calgary

noun
1.
The largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada.





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"Calgary" Quotes from Famous Books



... married or not, but he's doing it without any undue impression of its epical importance. I heard him observe, yesterday, that if he could only get his hands on enough ready money he'd like to swing into land business in a live center like Calgary. He has a friend there, apparently, who has just made a clean-up in city real estate and bought his wife a Detroit Electric and built a home for himself that cost forty thousand dollars. I reminded Dinky-Dunk, when he had finished, that we really must have a new straining-mesh ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... is a treat for you and father," his mother's voice was saying, "and the conductor tells me we shall be here probably forty-eight hours. The Bow River is on the rampage, the bridge near Calgary is washed away, and thank goodness we shall be comfortably housed and fed in this train." And Mrs. Allan's smiling face appeared ...
— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson


Words linked to "Calgary" :   Alberta, metropolis, urban center, city


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