Baine, Richard P. Calgary: an urban study. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Comp. Ltd.,1973 This well-illustrated and effectively organized study is a very useful source of factual and theoretical comment covering Calgary's growth and development from the founding to the contemporary period.
Cunniffe, Richard. Calgary in sandstone. Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta, Calgary Branch, 1969. Calgary's unique architectural heritage is the subject of this booklet.
Edwards, Bob. The best of Bob Edwards, edited by Hugh A. Dempsey. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1975. The musings of this especially insightful humorist and newspaperman provide a particularly bright window through which to view pre-World War I Calgary.
Foran, Max. Calgary: an illustrated history, photos assembled by Edward Cavell. Toronto: James Lorimer; (Ottawa) National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1978. With 120 historical photographs, this excellent study is the second volume in The History of Canadian Cities series
Fraser, William B. Calgary. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada Ltd.,1967. Commissioned by the Calgary Public School Local of the Alberta Teacher's Association, this survey history is particularly suitable for secondary school students.
MacEwan, Grant. Calgary cavalcade: From fort to fortune, 4th printing with one chapter added. Saskatoon Western Producer Book Service, 1975. This topical and often anecdotal survey marks a feeling for western development that is not duplicated elsewhere.
Rasporich, Anthony W. and Henry Klassen, editors. Frontier Calgary: Town, city and region, 1875-1914. Calgary: University of Calgary and McClelland and Stewart West, 1975. Published as a joint endeavour by the Alberta Historical Society and the University of Calgary to commemorate Calgary's one hundredth birthday, this volume contains a number of excellent essays by scholars and others interested in the city's past.
Articles
Breen, David H. "Calgary: The city and the petroleum industry since World War Two" Urban History Review, no.2-77, pp.55-71. This is one of the few articles that concentrates on the contemporary period.
Foran, Max. "Early Calgary, 1875-1895; The Controversies surrounding the townsite location and the direction of town expansion," pp. 26-45 in Cities in the West: Papers of the Western Canada Urban History Conference University of Winnipeg, October 1974, edited by A. R. McCormack and Ian Macpherson (National Museum of Man, History Division, Mercury Paper no.10,1975). In assessing the community's growth from fort to city, the author argues convincingly that the C.P.R., though a dominant factor, was not the all pervasive force as is often alleged.
__________. "Urban Calgary,1884-1895," Histoire Sociale/Social History,5 (1972), pp.61-76. The author focuses on the critical first decade of the city's corporate development, the period when the frontier environment was challenged by newly-imported institutions and when Calgary's metropolitan role was being defined.
Klassen, Henry C. "Life in Frontier Calgary," pp. 42-57 in Western Canadian Studies Conference (6th), University of Calgary, 1974. Western Canada Past and Present, edited by A. W. Rasporich. Calgary: University of Calgary and McClelland and Stewart West, 1975. The community's social character is the subject of this article.
Smith, J. "Change in a youthful city: The case of Calgary, Alberta," Geography,56 (1971), pp. 1 -14. This is a particularly useful article that assesses the distinct phases of development through which Calgary has gone and shows how each of these phases has left its mark on the urban landscape.
Stanley, George F.C. "The Naming of Calgary," Alberta History, 23 (1975), pp. 7-9. The long standing confusion regarding Calgary's name has been settled by this article.
Thomas, Lewis G. "The Rancher and the City: Calgary and the Cattlemen, 1883-1914," Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 4, volume 6 (1968), pp.203-215. The author examines the social milieu and the metropolitan character of the ranching community in and around Calgary.
Weadick, Guy, "Origin of the Calgary Stampede," Alberta Historical Review, 14 (1966), pp 20-24. The author of this article was the creative organizer of the first, and soon famous, Calgary Stampede.
