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The largest city of Alberta, Canada, in the southern part south of Edmonton. Site of the annual Calgary Stampede, a famous rodeo dating from 1912, it is the largest city in the province and the center of Canada's petroleum industry. The 1988 Winter Olympics were held here. Population: 988,000.
Calgarian Cal·gar'i·an (-gâr'ē-ən, -găr'-) n.
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Calgary is the site of the Univ. of Calgary, the Glenbow Museum, and the second largest zoo in Canada. The Calgary Stampede, inaugurated (1912) by Guy Weadick, an American trick roper, is an annual rodeo and agricultural fair. Calgary hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics and is home to the National Hockey League's Flames and the Canadian Football League's Stampeders.
The city began (1875) as the second post of the Northwest Mounted Police and expanded with the arrival (1883) of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Calgary's early economic growth was based on the burgeoning open-range cattle industry and the opening of S Alberta to cash-crop farming. The discovery (1914) of oil at Turner Valley began an expansion that has made Calgary one of Canada's fastest-growing cities.
City in southern Alberta, Canada.
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캘거리 (캐나다 Alberta 주의 남부 도시; 1988년 동계 올림픽 개최지)
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