Century Homes in the media

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CBC Radio Eyeopener, August 16, 2012

Century Homes: Sunnyside home gets 100th birthday party

The Eyeopener's Danielle Suchet continues her Century Homes series. Today, we hear from a long term resident of Sunnyside about how the neighbourhood has changed.

http://www.cbc.ca/eyeopener/episode/201 ... day-party/

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August 23, 2012 - A Mount Royal Century Home is profiled on the CBC Eyeopener

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Sh ... 271724589/

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Shaw TV Calgary segment, first broadcast May 17, 2012.
CHI member Terry Mackenzie research his home in preparation for the Century Homes celebration. With special guests Carolyn Ryder (Calgary Public Library) and Carol Stokes (City of Calgary archives). Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVr9z7i ... ature=plcp

CBC Radio 1 Eyeopener, May 24, 2012.
Interview with Century Homes co-chair and CHI president Cynthia Klaassen. (no link)

CBC News Calgary (television), May 28, 2012
Century Homes story (no link)

Calgary Real Estate News, June 2, 2012
Century Homes story (no link)

Calgary Herald story, July 5, 2012
Colourful history of Hillhurst home revealed
With a little digging, heritage comes alive
Annalise Klingbeil, For Neighbours
Discovering that Thomas Alfred Presswood Frost, an eccentric alderman, the first registered cardholder at the Calgary Public Library and a sergeant in the First World War, lived in her home nearly a century ago has made Silvina Mema love her house even more... Discovering the history of her Hillhurst home, thanks to a project called Century Homes Calgary, has made Mema feel a closer connection to her abode... Read more: http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/ne ... 50a8cf7541

Avenue Magazine online blog, published July 12th, 2012
Big Idea: Celebrate Calgary's Heritage Buildings
Century Homes Calgary turns homeowners into historians while helping to protect the city's heritage buildings.
Read more: http://www.avenuecalgary.com/blogs/big- ... -buildings

CBC Radio 1 Eyeopener, July 19, 2012
The Eyeopener's Danielle Suchet heads to Hillhurst with Lindae Stokes from Century Homes Calgary to visit some historic homes. Listen here:
http://www.cbc.ca/eyeopener/episode/201 ... hillhurst/

Calgary Herald, July 13, 2012
Project celebrates century home
By Claire Young
...Century Homes Calgary is a project to celebrate the homes from the city’s first building boom. “We’re trying to preserve the traditional streetscapes,” says celebration co-ordinator Marilyn Williams. “This is one way of engaging people and creating awareness...” Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Project+ce ... z21Y8fpR8N

Calgary Herald, July 24, 2012
Houses from 'Age of Optimism' saved from the wrecking ball
Heritage lovers preserve city's century cottages
Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
On the outside, hard work preserving the city's heritage homes is pleasing to the eye. Now, the inside stories revealing their human histories are finally coming into view. Century Homes Calgary signs and banners are cropping up just in time for Historic Calgary Week... Read more: http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/ne ... c483fd&p=1

660 AM, Radio, weekend of July 27, 2012
Interview with Lindae Stokes (no link)

Global TV Calgary Evening News, July 27
Calgary's century homes on display
Calgary’s rich history is being celebrated with a look at the city’s most historic houses.
Hundreds of homeowners are banding together for this year’s ‘Century Homes‘ tour, which began as a grassroots celebration of homes over 100 years old. This year’s event marks the 100th anniversary of Calgary’s first real estate boom... Video and script:
http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/calgarys ... story.html

Calgary Herald July 28, 2012
Century spotlight
Calgary’s 100-year-old homes get their chance to shine as part of the Century Homes event
By Melissa Lampman
It’s hard for Lisa Buck not to fall in love with the special charm and character found in an old house. So, when she and her husband Tom first saw the Young House in Calgary’s sought-after Mount Royal area, they immediately knew it was the home for them. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Century+sp ... z24n0sdDpQ

Calgary Herald, July 29, 2012
Alberta values are a valuable export commodity
David Finch, Calgary Herald
Published: Sunday, July 29, 2012
It seems 1912 was a very busy year. A century later many Calgary organizations are celebrating their centennials... Read more:
http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/ne ... 4dc584&p=1

Global TV Sunday Breakfast, July 29, 2012
Interview with Century Homes co-chair Cynthia Klaassen. Video:
http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/video/ca ... news/video

City TV, Breakfast Television, Monday July 30, 2012
Interview with Century Homes spokesperson Lindae Stokes (no link)

CBC Radio 1 Eyeopener, August 2, 2012
Century Homes - Eau Claire
Danielle Suchet visits the last remaining bungalow in Eau Claire.
Listen here: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Sh ... 263047714/

Calgary Herald online, August 5, 2012
Sunday in the City: Preserving Calgary’s century homes
August 5, 2012. 6:41 am • Section: Calgary, Home, Life
By Melissa Lampman
After learning more about Calgary’s history and century homes this past week, reading an article about some of these very homes being torn down to make way for new ones was disheartening... Read more:
http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2012/08/ ... ury-homes/

CBC Radio 1 Eyeopener, August 16, 2012
Century Homes: Sunnyside home gets 100th birthday party
The Eyeopener's Danielle Suchet continues her Century Homes series. Today, we hear from a long term resident of Sunnyside about how the neighbourhood has changed. Listen here:
http://www.cbc.ca/eyeopener/episode/201 ... day-party/

CBC Radio 1 Eyeopener, August 23, 2012
This week Danielle Suchet takes us to a Mount Royal mansion. Listen here: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Sh ... 271724589/

CBC Radio 1 Eyeopener, August 30, 2012
In the final installment of our Century Homes series, the Eyeopener's Danielle Suchet visits a home in the southwest neighbourhood of Cliff Bungalow.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Sh ... 79/?page=2

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In case you missed it, the final segment of the CBC Eyeopener series on Century Homes was broadcast August 30. See above^

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Another Century Home story...

Room a poem for librarian
By Richard White, For the Calgary Herald Homes Section
November 2, 2012

... We love the simplicity of the design, as well as the character and charm that comes with a home over 100 years old. This year, we (participated) in the 2012 Century Homes Calgary event, a citywide celebration commemorating homes constructed during Calgary’s first building boom...

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Room+poem+ ... z2BPpH1h4V

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Room+poem+ ... z2BPozMpZ4

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The home of Century Homes' community coordinator Marilyn Williams is profiled in the Herald Homes section. Marilyn is active in many heritage initiatives!

Rich heritage captivates owner
By Jacqueliine Louie, For the Calgary Herald November 16, 2012

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Rich+herit ... z2ChkToOdH

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Century Homes Calgary was awarded the Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. Here is a link to information and media coverage related to that:

http://www.calgaryheritage.org/CHIForum/vi ... =3562#3562

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Century Homes rolling again in 2013. Global News shows us the "Twin Gables" in this January 15, 2013 story with video:

http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/video/hi ... gil+tucker

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Century Homes article in Neighbours magazine, published by the Herald, February 7, 2013. Online link not yet available.

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A Century Home owner from Sunnyside profiled in the Calgary Journal, February 20, 2013.

http://www.calgaryjournal.ca/index.php/ ... r-65-years

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Century Homes is profiled in the cover story of Heritage, the magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation. The current (winter 2013) edition.

Good Neighbours: Heritage Homes and Neighbourhoods looks at the importance of revitalizing and stabilizing historic neighbourhoods and celebrating their cultural significance. Read about Calgary’s week-long Century Homes party, Vancouver’s amazing liveable laneways, a Now House Wartime home rehab project and Canada’s first-ever Modernist Heritage Conservation District in Ottawa.
By Carolyn Quinn and Sheila Ascroft

http://www.heritagecanada.org/en/visit- ... e-magazine

Direct to article:
http://www.heritagecanada.org/sites/www ... ebsite.pdf