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Calgary Herald
Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2007
History - A community garden in northeast Calgary will be designated a municipal historic site.
City council received a report Monday that suggested the Bridgeland/Riverside Community Garden at 46 7th St. N.E. be maintained as a historic resource. The garden is just below the old General Hospital site.
Council asked for the designation to go ahead.
The Calgary Heritage Authority says the garden was "almost certainly" cultivated under the Vacant Lots Garden Club, established by the city in 1911 to allow poor families to grow vegetables while ridding vacant lots of weeds and garbage.