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by **cjane** » Wed May 16, 2012 2:29 pm

(As of August 30, 2012; go to the end of the forum for more recent coverage)
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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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Original posting:
Tune in May 17 at 5pm to Shaw TV Calgary to watch 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).

by **newsposter** » Thu May 17, 2012 8:17 pm

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):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVr9z7i ... ature=plcp

by **newsposter** » Wed May 23, 2012 7:50 pm

Century Homes will be discussed on the CBC Eyeopener, Thursday morning May 24 at 6:45 am. With CHI president Cynthia Klaassen

by **cjane** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:01 pm

Century Homes on CBC television evening news, May 28.

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/C ... 2240146292

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by **newsposter** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:53 am

Century Homes in the Calgary Real Estate Board news, June 2, 2012

http://www.crebrealestatenews.com/doc/c ... 2053001/#0

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by **Admin** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:50 pm

Colourful history of Hillhurst home revealed
With a little digging, heritage comes alive
Annalise Klingbeil, For Neighbours (Calgary Herald)
Published: Thursday, July 05, 2012

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.

Read more:
http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/ne ... 50a8cf7541

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Century Homes Calgary turns homeowners into historians while helping to protect the city's heritage buildings.

Marilyn William's 1912 Cliff Bungalow home today, and the neighbourhood as it looked in 1915. Photos courtesy Century Homes Calgary.

Usually, finding out your home has a hidden past is an unpleasant discovery, perhaps involving shoddy workmanship or a tenant who used the basement as a grow-op.

But a group of Calgarians is unearthing a different kind of history in the city’s century-old townhouses, while at the same time working to ensure the buildings are protected for the enjoyment of future generations.

“These are the kinds of homes that aren’t being built anymore. Whenever one is torn down, it’s lost for good,” explains Marilyn Williams, community coordinator manager and co-founder of the non-profit group Century Homes Calgary...

read more at: http://www.avenuecalgary.com/blogs/big- ... -buildings

by **newsposter** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:14 am

CBC Eyeopener July 19, 2012

The Eyeopener's Danielle Suchet heads to Hillhurst with Lindae Stokes from Century Homes Calgary to visit some historic homes.

http://www.cbc.ca/eyeopener/episode/201 ... hillhurst/

Listen for Century Homes stories every Thursday on the Eyeopener!

by **newsposter** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:18 am

A series of stories from the Homes section of the Calgary Herald, July 13, 2012

Project celebrates century home
By Claire Young, Calgary Herald July 13, 2012

Calgary’s first building boom, in the years leading up to the start of the First World War, was led by land speculation, says a historian.

“The boundaries of the city had extended way in excess of settlement,” says Max Foran, a historian and professor at the University of Calgary.

“I read where a plot in present-day Cambrian Heights was bought in 1912 and the guy hung onto it for 40 years. When Cambrian Heights was opened up in the 1950s, the price (of the land) was exactly the same. That’s how much the price was inflated.”

People were coming to Calgary in droves and some of those homes are still standing today.

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.”

There were 13,011 building permits issued during the pre-First World War boom. Permits signal the intention to begin construction, not whether it was actually carried out.

Williams expects most of the homes were built, but there is no inventory of century homes in Calgary, so it’s hard to say how many are still standing.

At the very least, about 360 houses are now registered for the centennial celebration (visit centuryhomes.org)...

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Project+ce ... z21Y8fpR8N

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Project+ce ... z21Y8IgFVj

by **newsposter** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:23 am

Houses from 'Age of Optimism' saved from the wrecking ball
Heritage lovers preserve city's century cottages
Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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, which runs July 27 to Aug. 6.

Owners and residents are sharing details and stories about their homes by posting yard signs, hoping to encourage others to learn their house's history.

"We've had quite a rush; we're inching toward the 500 mark now," said Century Homes spokeswoman Lindae Stokes...

Read much more:

http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/ne ... c483fd&p=1

by **newsposter** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:40 pm

Listen for an interview with Century Homes spokesperson Lindae Stokes on 660 AM throughout the weekend.

Story on Century Homes on Global Calgary at 5 and 6 pm July 27. Here is the video:

http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/calgarys ... story.html

by **newsposter** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:48 am

Century spotlight
Calgary’s 100-year-old homes get their chance to shine as part of the Century Homes event

By Melissa Lampman, Calgary Herald July 28, 2012

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Century+sp ... story.html

Also a shout out in David Finch's column in the Sunday, July 29 edition.

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.

http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/ne ... 4dc584&p=1

CHI president and Century Homes co-chair Cynthia Klaassen was on Global TV's Sunday breakfast on July 29. Interviewed by Reid Feist.

by **newsposter** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:20 pm

Watch for another Century Homes story on City TV, Monday July 30.

by **cjane** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:18 am

CHI president and Century Homes co-chair Cynthia Klaassen was on Global TV's Sunday breakfast on July 29. Interviewed by Reid Feist.

http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/video/ca ... news/video

by **newsposter** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:13 pm

Century Home in Eau Claire

CBC Calgary Eyeopener story, August 2, 2012

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Sh ... 263047714/

by **newsposter** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:31 pm

Sunday in the City: Preserving Calgary’s century homes
August 5, 2012. 6:41 am • Section: Calgary, Home, Life

Calgary Herald blog posting 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/

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