"Fields of Fame" honour Calgary pioneers

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"Fields of Fame" honour Calgary pioneers

Postby newsposter » Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:27 pm

Link to first posting on this subject, from December 2008:
http://calgaryheritage.org/CHIForum/viewto ... =1496#1496

This is the active thread. I have closed the other one.
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Display honours city's pioneering citizens
Faces Of The Past
By Daryl Slade, Calgary Herald May 21, 2010

Six Calgarians who helped shape the city have been recognized in the first of a series of memorials. Former prime minister R.B. Bennett, Stampede cofounder Sen. Patrick Burns, Glenbow Museum founder Eric Harvie, Calgary YWCA founder Alice Jamieson, North West Mounted Police Col. James Macleod and Tsuu T'ina Chief David Crowchild were honoured Thursday with the unveiling of four-metre "wheat stalk" statues in the Field of Fame downtown at Jamieson Place...

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainm ... z0sUJkQSxE

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Postby newsposter » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:30 pm

The second field of fame was unveiled yesterday (info on the first is above) story below...

Corbella: Field of Fame points to bright future
New memorial honours Alberta's past visionaries
By Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald June 15, 2011

Excerpt: Yesterday, a new Field of Fame of six steel wheat stalk statues was unveiled at 6th Avenue and 4th Street S.W. to memorialize the first woman alderman in the Commonwealth, Annie Gale, Senator Sir James Lougheed, former Calgary mayor, MLA and Lieutenant-Governor Grant MacEwan, internationally renowned author W.O. Mitchell, suffragette and child and women's rights advocate Maude Riley, and decorated Second World War Bomber Command pilot, alderman, MLA and member of Parliament Arthur Smith...

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Corbe ... z1PO1NgPv7
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