CALGARY, a city of the province of Alberta, Canada, at the junction of the Bow and Elbow rivers. Lat. ° 4 N.; Long. 15' W. Pop. (1901) 4,091; (1931) 83,761. It is a centre of the large wheat-growing and stock-raising region of north-western Canada, and an important railway junction on the main line of the C.P.R. to the Pacific coast at Vancouver. The town is well laid out, with fine buildings, and is the seat of the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. It contains repair shops, flour mills, and other industries; the electric power for lighting and manufacturing is developed on the Bow river, while natural gas is piped from the Bow island field, loom. distant, a good coal being also available from the mining districts of the Rocky mountains. Calgary was founded in 1883 and incorporated as a city in Branch lines connect it north with Edmonton, the capital of the province, and south with Lethbridge, while the main line, follow ing the Bow river, enters the Rocky mountains through the Kick ing Horse pass, 4om. west of Calgary.