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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Acclaimed British comedienne and singer Gracie Fields (1898–1979) performed in Calgary 85 years ago today. She sang for 2,000 soldiers at Currie Barracks and for an audience of 10K at the Stampede Grandstand (pictured here in 1922) in aid of the Navy League of Canada. 📷: @UCalgaryLibrary

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Emergency at Calgary City Hall. The entire municipal complex has been evacuated.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Some gentleman just stole my scooter. Thanks, a__hole.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Celebrate Canadian Jewish Heritage Month by attending “Sharing Our Story, Ourselves,” a presentation by Katie Baker on May 20, 2025 at 7:00 pm at the Central Library. Part of a monthly lecture series by the Chinook Country Historical Society. #CanadianJewishHeritageMonth #JewishHeritageMonth

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Calgary Transit's Blue Line, a light rail transit line, began service #40YearsAgoToday (April 27, 1985) as Route 202. The Blue Line name was originally used for a streetcar route that became commonly known as the Belt Line. Today's Beltline district maintains the name. @calgarytransit.bsky.social

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ended is the #Passover Seder. My favourite holiday. Spent with family the first night, friends old and new the second night.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#90YearsAgoToday in #YYC (Apr. 12, 1935): The Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough, lays cornerstone for Calgary's Permanent Force Barracks. In 1937, the base is named Currie Barracks for the late General Sir Arthur Currie. Decomissioned 1996 & redeveloped. Photo: @ucalgary.bsky.social Library

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The historic Hudson's Bay Company store on #YYC's Stephen Av is in its final days. #OTD in 1970, Lt.-Gov. Grant MacEwan opened the store's new 6th-floor exhibit celebrating the #HBC's 300th anniversary. There was no repeat celebration for the 350th in 2020—COVID-19 had begun. @calgaryherald.com

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

#55YearsAgoToday in #YYC (Apr. 9, 1970): Lt.-Gov. Grant MacEwan cuts a buckskin ribbon to open the Hudson's Bay Company's 300th anniversary exhibit on the 6th floor of the historic Calgary store. L–R: Mayor Rod Sykes; J.R. Murray, HBC managing director; H.E. Dunn, store manager; MacEwan. #hbc

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is the only one I've seen, Clint. Taken Apr. 14, 1957, two years after the fire. Rosettis Studio, photographer. @ucalgary.bsky.social Libraries, CU1131645

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

#70YearsAgoToday in #YYC: Marshall-Wells hardware warehouse (118–11 Av SE) burns. Smoke column casts a shadow on the Palliser Hotel. Built in 1912 for Wood, Vallance & Adams. Replaced on site by Regency Building; now Impark Lot #243. Rosettis Studio, photographer. Photo: @ucalgary.bsky.social

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Ghost sign for Budget Rent-a-Car at the old Fire Hall No. 1. Converting the old fire station into a car rental agency years ago was a clever adaptive re-use.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

At the opening event for fireWORKS, an art installation between old Fire Hall No. 1 and the North-West Travellers Building. Ruth Scalp Lock of Siksika gave the blessing. cSpace will convert the buildings into Calgary’s newest arts and culture campus.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hudson Bay to disappear "in several thousand years"—Professor Canadian Press story from July 9, 1963.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Ethel Egbert (1884–1976) retired #75YearsAgoToday (Mar. 31, 1950) after 18 years as the Law Society of Alberta's chief librarian. Daughter of former Alberta Lt.-Gov. William Egbert; served on the Calgary SPCA & Calgary Golf & Country Club executives. Photo: @ucalgary.bsky.social Libraries

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"Just One Obstacle"—Roy Justus' cartoon in the Minneapolis Star, reprinted in the Albertan #75YearsAgoToday. #tariffs #tariffsimpact #politicalcartoons

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

#75YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Sketch of new #CalgaryStampede entrance gate published in the Albertan newspaper. The new gate at 17 Av SE & Macleod Tr evokes the palisade at Fort Calgary; built in recognition of the fort's 75th anniversary. The gate replaces the original sandstone arch built in 1907.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

#110YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Firefighter Lewis Henry Tarrant (1891–1915) is buried with full honours in Union Cemetery. Tarrant's lungs had been damaged in a fire a year earlier. He was a nephew of Fire Chief James "Cappy" Smart. Photo: University of Calgary Libraries

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I receive this deceptive ad in my Gmail "Promotions" folder. The advertiser is AdsBliss B.V., Netherlands. The link is to an unrelated CBC story from today about Prime Minister Carney and U.S. tariffs. #cdnpoli

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#20YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Historic Rouleau House moved across 18 Av SW to its present site behind Alberta Ballet's Nat Christie Centre (the former CNR station). Built 1885 in Rouleauville, which became part of Calgary in 1907 and was renamed the Mission district. Photo: @cityofcalgary.bsky.social

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"Knocking the 'Tar' out of Tariff!" Front page cartoon published in the Western Independent, the journal of the United Farmers of Alberta, #OTD in 1920. "UFWA" on the woman's arm stands for United Farm Women of Alberta. #ElbowsUp

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#100YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Building permit issued for Arthur M. Webb residence (1040–5 Av SW), an Arts and Crafts-style house that survived to become one of the last single-family homes in Calgary's Downtown West End. Demolished March 30, 2024. Photo: HeritageCalgary.ca

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Today I visited the grave of Ephraim James Brown (1870–1950) within sight of Union Cemetery's iconic stone entrance gate. Brown was staff artist for the Calgary Municipal Railway, now #CalgaryTransit. He retired in 1935 as the street railway's foreman painter. Brown died #75YearsAgoToday in #yyc.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Well, I didn’t think I’d find anything to buy at the Hudson’s Bay Company today, but I saw Stanfield’s underwear! Made in Bangladesh, so not as Canadian as I thought, but I’m still buying eight pairs of gonch. #hbc

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A bit of local history on the 2nd floor of Calgary’s historic downtown Hudson’s Bay Company store. Right next to the escalator. #hbc #yyc

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Memorial to Hudson’s Bay Company employees who died for Canada in the Second World War. It’s hanging on a pillar on the third floor of the downtown Calgary store. #hbc #yyc

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

At Calgary’s historic downtown Hudson’s Bay Company store for one last look around. This little display is in the third floor elevator lobby. #hbc #yyc

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#50YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Funeral held for Russian-born Harry Sheftel, 50-year city resident & co-owner of the Carriage House, Empress, & Highlander hotels who died Mar. 19, 1975. Calgary Jewish Centre chapel named for him in 1980. Photo: Harry & Fanny's 25th anniversary party, 1940. #JewishHistory

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#75YearsAgoToday: Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, dies in Encino, California, reportedly while reading the Sunday comics. Headline from the Albertan (now @calgarysun.com).

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#100YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Siblings Frieda & Louis Berkoff, dancers, headline at the Capitol Theatre, now the site of Stephen Avenue Place. Louis became a Monogram Pictures producer; Frieda Berkoff-Gellis owned LA's Coronet Theatre & wrote "Vaudeville, The Way It Really Was" (1979). #JewishHistory

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The owners have been found! We enjoyed our time with this friendly furball. All’s well that ends well.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This cat just showed up at our door in #MardaLoop. No collar. Does anyone recognize them?

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

#100YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Calgary's first metered taxi, made by the Checker Cab Manufacturing Co., hits the streets. The cab in this 1924 photo is parked outside the Alberta Legislature in #yeg. Courtesy @ucalgary.bsky.social

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#50YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Australian writer and feminist Dr. Germaine Greer speaks to a standing-room only crowd at MacEwan Hall, @ucalgary.bsky.social. The United Nations had proclaimed 1975 as International Women's Year. Calgary Herald photo

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

At the Calgary Petroleum Club for Calgary Opera’s “Up Close and Over Easy” opera brunch. Marianne Cornetti is singing “I Got Rhythm” from “Girl Crazy.”

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#OTD in 1920: Explosion & fire kills 2 at the month-old Canadian Liquid Air plant, now site of Harry Hays Building in #yyc's Chinatown. The firm—a branch of French-based Air Liquide—rebuilds, makes industrial gases & oxygen for medical needs. Explodes & burns again, 1950; moves to SE Calgary, 1970.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#100YearsAgoToday in #YYC: Calgarians learn that public figure Annie Gale might move to BC (which she does). Gale made history as Canada's 1st female city councillor (2nd in the British Empire) & as Calgary's deputy mayor. She championed food security, public health, women's rights, & social reform.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

#100YearsAgoToday in #YYC: Calgary to have a branch of the Poetry Society of Canada. Headline from the Calgary Albertan (forerunner to @calgarysun.com), March 14, 1925.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

“Drunk in Charge of Horse”—Calgary News-Telegram, October 10, 1913.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I recall that John Turner argued for multilateral free trade in 1988, while Brian Mulroney argued for a singular US-Canada free trade agreement. In the long run, it looks to me that Turner was right.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m not a sports guy, but I need this for my work on Calgary history. Can anyone tell me something about the Calgary Hilltoppers and Hilltoppers Field?

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Beautiful sunset from the Lochend Road northwest of Calgary.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Great Canadian meat, but don’t misplace apostrophes.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“I sincerely believe that the day of the sex picture is past.” #100YearsAgoToday, the Albertan quoted Alberta’s chief censor Howard Douglas’ report. He condemned “scenes so suggestive that they produce the guffaws of the young vamps in the audience” & “the quiet nudge of the more conservative.”

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Partial solar eclipse observed in Calgary #OTD in 1935. Account from the Calgary Daily Herald, Feb. 4, 1935.

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