This past weekend, I visited Calgary and some of its surrounding areas. Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta and third or fourth in Canada depending on how this is measured. It proudly bills itself as the 'Heart of the New West' and is an oil town with a significant mergers and acquisitions presence and the second most corporate head offices in Canada. It's also a political heavyweight, being home of the current Prime Minister of Canada and three ministers of the crown. My brother and me also visited Drumheller, centre of the ‘Canadian Badlands’ and home to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which houses one of the world’s largest collection of prehistoric animal remains. It was a great trip and we hope you enjoy this small sampling of my photographs.
(The Bow Tower is the tallest building in Calgary and is now nearing completion)
(Old and new in Calgary!)
(Alberta became a province in 1905. Prior to this it was part of the Northwest Territiories)
(Stephen Avenue in the Calgary city centre is a large pedestrian street)
(The Calgary Tower and Fairmont Palliser Hotel)
(The Palliser is located beside a Canadian Pacific railyard and one of its features is a bay for 1920s era trains that can be rented and taken through the mountains)
(Artwork in the Hotel)
(Southern Alberta is quite flat)
(The Red Deer River in the Badlands.)
(Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller)
(Horseshoe Canyon in the Badlands)
(Your humble blogger/photographer and the Calgary skyline)
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