http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/06/30/ca ... -its-roots
“The Stampede is getting a chance to re-focus and start off the second century with a game-changing program.”
Once a development permit is granted early next year, construction on the $100-million Youth Campus on the eastern edge of the land should commence in 2015, said (Warren) Connell.
It’ll be another venue for the Calgary Arts Academy, incorporating historical buildings such as the 103-year-old Victory Outreach Church, which will be fashioned into a small recital hall.
“It’s acoustically designed already laid out perfectly,” said Connell.
“It’s a unique way to bridge the past with the future.”
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Here is the link back to the last posting regarding the Stampede expansion / Westbourne Church topic:
http://www.calgaryheritage.org/CHIForum/vi ... =2483#2483
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to the history of the old Westbourne Baptist Church have been added
to the Preacher's Page of www.aberhartfoundation.ca
Of particular interest to the arts is the woodwork and crafts of Alfred J. Girling, who made the old pulpit and communion table which still exist at the new Church location.
Larry Heather, Director
William Aberhart Historical Foundation
(posted on his behalf by NP)
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Dear Friends,
In Downtown Calgary on the Stampede Grounds is a building of great historical importance that is recognized by The City of Calgary as a
Heritage Resource. It is the old Westbourne Baptist Church Building which
housed congregations under such Preachers as William Aberhart, Ernest Hansell, and Morley Hall. Speculation of the Stampede moving the building to another site would prove to be a disappointing break in the true history and contribution this building has to offer. It would be best preserved as a museum to the Political & Protestant Baptist history of the past.
These next two Sundays on Gospel Road ( March 13th & 20th, 2011 -
AM1140 Radio, 2pm ) we will examine The Early Days of Westbourne Baptist. Interviews recorded of Mrs. Muriel Manning, John Hutchinson, Arve and Emma Wilkinson, and Albert Stewart will give us insight into the rich history of both Aberhart and Morley Hall and John Cunningham eras of this storied Church location. We will here an outline of the Church's origin and history, and hear some readings of the early Westbourne Young People's Society newsletter, the Cheer Up. ( A young sixteen year old visitor from Rosetown, Ernest Manning is written of in 1927 three times!)
And you will hear about how we can preserve this building as a major tourist attraction and museum for the benefit of the coming generations.
Tune in and tell others about these special Gospel Road shows coming up on The Early Days of Westbourne Baptist. That's starting this Sunday at 2-3pm.
Yours Truly,
Your Gospel Road Host,
Larry Heather
www.gospelroad.ca
PS Pass this message on to those you think would be interested.
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Calgary Stampede Park moves ahead with $400-million expansion
Several projects to be completed by 2014
By Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary Herald November 9, 2010
CALGARY - With the economic recession behind us, Calgary's Stampede Park is moving forward with its $400-million expansion and redevelopment that will be completed within the next three years or so, the Herald has learned...
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/C ... z16jX0bwNf
Link to the Stampede's development page:
http://calgarystampede.com/about/park-development/
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Major Stampede entertainment complex to open a year late
Delay blamed on economic downturn
By Tamara Gignac, Calgary Herald June 17, 2010
A massive, $150-million entertainment and shopping complex planned for the Calgary Stampede will open almost a year behind schedule...
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/M ... z0sY2Qva3o
Link to a 1965 photo of the Church - currently painted white and behind a fence on Olympic Way. http://cdm280501.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_ ... OX=1&REC=2
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You may be interested in reviewing Holly Doan's The Premier's CPAC
special on William Aberhart which first showed Sunday, March 22 at 7pm.
The online version is available at the link below. It is thirty minutes
long , but well worth the time. It contains a variety of viewpoints, but is
the best by far for along time on this major personality in Alberta History.
You can now view the Aberhart Premier's video at the link below, as well as BC Socred Premier WAC Bennett and the other premiers profiled:
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp= ... 225&lang=e
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Link to CPAC The Premiers
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp= ... 225&lang=e
William Aberhart - Alberta
Sunday, March 22nd, at 7 pm Mountain Time
An evangelist known as "Bible Bill," William Aberhart served as premier from 1935 to 1943 as his province faced bankruptcy. He ran on the promise to feed and cloth the destitute and made it his lifelong goal to fight the injustices of the poor. Acting on the principles of Social Credit, Aberhart led Alberta by challenging the banks, courts and the press as he sought to reform the system for the people.
Featuring lively and candid interviews with Aberhart’s friends from the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, including Larry Heather, Olive Hutchinson and Mary Macomber, and Aberhart’s granddaughter Patricia Hilton, the documentary reveals the story of a man who was the symbol of salvation at a time of extreme economic hardship.
CPAC presents The Premiers, an unprecedented TV event that documents the lives and legacies of ten dynamic leaders. Produced by award-winning journalist Holly Doan, The Premiers focuses on the premiers and provinces that shaped a nation. The series features rare archival film never before seen on television and lively interviews with colleagues and commentators such as Conrad Black, Shirley Douglas, and John Crosbie. The documentaries capture the Canadian experience – from British Columbia to Newfoundland – as told through the political struggles of the country’s most unforgettable premiers.
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Save Bible Bill's old church
By Larry Heather, For The Calgary Herald
January 22, 2009
With the ongoing expansion of the Stampede grounds, the future of the historic old Westbourne Baptist Church is uncertain. Those passing by the 436 13th Ave. S. E. site in the scant remains of Victoria Park may see only an old and perhaps outdated white, brick building. The new Stampede Casino now surrounds it to the west. But a rediscovery of the profound history emanating from the 250-person chapel makes it an important link in the history of Alberta.
Established as a mission church of First Baptist in 1905, the present structure was built in 1910 from a grant given from the Westbourne Church in London, England. The British pastor there, Dr. John Clifford, had an active interest in Baptist outreach in Calgary. So the new church was named in honour of its English counterpart, and retained that historic building name over 102 years until the present.
The original Baptist congregation moved out in 1967, eventually to relocate to the new Westbourne Church in northwest Calgary. After several vacant years, the little church revived as a meeting place for the Victory Outreach Centre--which ministered mostly to the poor --for 15 years, until their last service was held at that site in May 2007.
A miniature but distinct example of a gothic revival style, the small mission congregation of modest means was in need of a preacher in the year of 1915. On Dec. 15 of that year, just after the close of the Great War, the increasingly popular and able William Aberhart offered his services as a lay pastor for no remuneration. He would minister to them, while continuing his day employment as a high school principal of the new Crescent Height Collegiate Institute, all the while building a reputation as one of Western's Canada's leading educators. The church grew and prospered under his teaching.
Conversions and discipleship by Aberhart at the West-bourne Church formed crucial leadership associates, who would later be invaluable in the start of new ventures of his influence in the future. Muriel Preston (Manning) and Cyril Hutchinson (later the Prophetic/ Berean Bible Principal), were both young people in the congregation at the time.
Thursday evening prophecy classes taught by Aberhart attracted many from other churches and came to be known as the Calgary Prophetic Bible Conference. It quickly outgrew the 250-person capacity at Westbourne Chapel, and eventually settled in the much larger Grand (1,600 seats) and Palace theatres (2,000 seats). It was at the Palace that the radio broadcasts, encouraged by CFCN founder W. W. Grant, began in the fall of 1925. Aberhart's radio preaching grew to an eventual audience of more than 300,000 and provided the original sponsor a brick and rafter campaign to fund the building of the new Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute at 516 8th Ave. W. in 1927.
The first student to sign up was the Rosetown, Sask., farm-boy, Ernest C. Manning. The Westbourne congregation moved to the Institute Auditorium for its services, as well. But in 1929, disagreements over Aberhart's dominant leadership led to a split, with at least half of the people returning to the old church building, the others remaining with Aberhart at the Independent Bible Institute Baptist Church (later to become Bethel Baptist). Muriel Preston had been drafted at the age of 13 as the Westbourne pianist by Aberhart. She then became music director of the radio ministry.
The theories of Social Credit originator Maj. C. H. Douglas, via the writings of Maurice Colbourne, were critical in launching Aberhart's interest in monetary reform in the depths of the Depression. As the Social Credit teaching mixed with Aberhart's radio evangelism, a ready response of hope in the depths of the Depression resonated in the vast radio congregation. The movement first formed as study groups designed to pressure the provincial United Farmers party to monetary reform.
Being rebuffed in their efforts, Aberhart launched from the study groups the Alberta Social Credit party. Their victory in the 1935 election propelled Aberhart into the office of premier, and his movement later under Ernest Manning would complete 37 years of administering the government of Alberta. Muriel Preston made the Edmonton migration to marry Ernest a year later.
The Western Baptist Bible College was started at Westbourne in 1934 to 1939, when it was temporarily closed for the wartime involvement of its would-be students. (It is now the Northwest Baptist College&Seminary in Langley, B. C.) In an interesting twist, this second college formed from the old Westbourne has an Aberhart student bursary program from an endowment fund from the Aberhart Radio Ministry.
These major developments all began with the launch of Aberhart's ministry as a lay preacher, in that Old Westbourne Baptist Church. This historic church should be preserved on the Calgary Stampede grounds. Its transformation into an Aberhart legacy museum is the most logical and lasting use for this vital catalyst in Alberta history. A place which memorializes the profound heritage of William Aberhart for future generations of Albertans.
Larry Heather is director with The William Aberhart Historical Foundation, founded in 2000 by the late socred MLA and Speaker of The House Art Dixon, C. M.
© Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald
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Full story at the link - excerpts below
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/new ... 460c5ebc2c
Mario Toneguzzi
Calgary Herald
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Calgary Stampede has struck an exclusive agreement with Alberta Development Partners to explore the development of a main street retail zone at Stampede Park....
...The main street retail area will involve between 150,000 and 200,000 square feet of mixed-use entertainment and retail. It will be between 12th Avenue S.E. and 14th Avenue S.E. along Olympic Way S.E. A hotel project is also part of the plan.
By late spring or mid-summer, the Stampede hopes to have a plan for the project presented to the city for a development permit application. Completion of the project is planned for either 2010 or 2011...
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