Alberta is now served by two major transcontinental railways ( CN and CP ), by three major highway connections to the Pacific ( the Trans-Canada via Kicking Horse Pass, the Yellowhead via Yellowhead Pass and the Crowsnest via Crowsnest Pass ), and one to the United States ( Interstate 15 ), as well as two international airports ( Calgary and Edmonton ).

Heinz Canada's head office is in North York, Ontario and it also has operations in St. Marys, Ontario ; Calgary, Alberta ; and Montreal, Quebec.

* Luxembourg is represented in Canada through its embassy in Washington, D. C. ( USA ), and 4 honorary consulates ( in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver ).

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

* The Calgary Corpus dating back to 1987 is no longer widely used due to its small size, although Leonid A. Broukhis still maintains The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge, which started in 1996.

It is played openly in major casinos in China ( including Macau ); the United States ( including Las Vegas, Nevada ; Reno, Nevada ; Connecticut ; Atlantic City, New Jersey ; Eastern Pennsylvania ; and cardrooms in California ); Canada ( including Edmonton, Alberta and Calgary, Alberta ); Australia ; and, New Zealand.

The Calgary Region is Canada's most suburban census metropolitan area | metropolitan region, with 67 % of the population living in low-density neighborhoods in 2001.

Rutherford is no longer syndicated nationally but continues to air in Calgary, Edmonton, and London.

In addition to this the University was a founding member of the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society, UVic maintains this field station on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

The facility is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

Wickenheiser is currently playing for the University of Calgary women's hockey team.

A notable exception is the NeXT-based system originally developed and marketed by Trillium Sound Research, a spin-off company of the University of Calgary, where much of the original research was conducted.

Chacmool is the name of an annual conference held by the Archaeology Students ' Association of the University of Calgary, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Optima is also used as the official branding typeface for Estée Lauder Companies, the University of Calgary, by Aston Martin.

Calgary, Alberta is also known for its microclimates.

Dr. James A. Gosling, OC ( born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada ) is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.

It is located on Highway 23, midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge.

The Apollo polyphonic synthesiser is currently at a keyboard museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

He is currently filming in Calgary, Alberta for his next film.

" Colonel Bogey " is the authorized march of The King's Own Calgary Regiment ( RCAC ) of the Canadian Forces.

He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary.

He has a brother, Peter, who later became a lawyer and is now a judge, presiding in Calgary, and a sister Catherine who is retired in Victoria, British Columbia.

After the newly founded Calgary Broncos folded prior to commencement of the inaugural WHA season, the Oilers were renamed the Alberta Oilers as it was planned to split their home games between Edmonton and Calgary.

Possibly for financial reasons or to allow for a less complicated return of the WHA to Calgary, though, the team ultimately played all of its home games in the Edmonton Gardens and subsequently changed its name back to the Edmonton Oilers the following year.

The University campus also covers the McMahon Stadium, which is home to the Dinos Football Team and the Calgary Stampeders.

The football team plays home matches at McMahon Stadium, home of CFL's Calgary Stampeders.

The University of Calgary is home to the very first collegiate fraternity founded, Kappa Sigma, whose Calgary chapter has been active since 1984.

The Argonauts took home the 1991 Grey Cup beating Calgary 36 – 21 in the final.

For the first time, Canada won gold in an " official " sport at an Olympic Games hosted at home, having failed to do so at both the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary ( although Canada won a gold medal in the " demonstration-sport " of curling in Calgary ).

It did not help that, beginning in 1921, her husband spent the work week in Edmonton, commuting home to Calgary only for the weekends.

Calgary won the Champion's Cup by beating the Bandits 14-11 in front of a home crowd of 19, 289 in the Pengrowth Saddledome.

They finished the season with a 12-6 record and brought along with it the Roughriders ' first home playoff game since 1988, which became a 26-24 victory over the Calgary Stampeders.

It was created as a response to the " C of Red " created by fans of the Calgary Flames, who the home town Jets were facing in the first round of the 1987 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Calgary is also home to Carifest, the second largest Caribbean festival in the nation ( after Caribana in Toronto ).

Alberta also is home to a number of Universities, including the University of Alberta ( Ranked 59th in the world ) as well as the University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge and Mount Royal University

* Calgary, AB ( Virtual Call Centre-Agents take calls from home )

* Calgary is home to Theatre Calgary, a mainstream regional theatre ; Alberta Theatre Projects, a major centre for new play development in Canada ; the Calgary Animated Objects Society ; Vertigo Mystery Theatre ; and One Yellow Rabbit, a touring company.

Calgary is also home for expert marionetteer, Ronnie Burkett.

* Rosebud, located one hour east of Calgary, is home to Rosebud Theatre, Alberta's only rural professional theatre.

* 1998 – 99: Calgary Flames ( through 1999 – 2000 ; became road jersey through 2003 ; third shirt again 2003 – 07 ), Florida Panthers ( through 2002 – 03 ; became new home jersey, replaced by former road jersey ), New York Rangers ( white shirt replaced blue third for one season ), Phoenix Coyotes ( through 2002 – 03 ), Toronto Maple Leafs ( through 2006 – 07 )

Mark Messier had returned to New York, Theoren Fleury joined the Rangers after spending most of his career with the Calgary Flames, and Eric Lindros was traded to the Rangers from the Philadelphia Flyers.

Although the story is set in Detroit, many goofs in production make it apparent that most of the movie was filmed in Toronto, Ontario ; Hamilton, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta.

The University of Calgary is one of Canada ’ s top research universities ( based on the number of Canada Research Chairs ) and is a member of the U15 ( the 15 most research-intensive universities in Canada ).

" James Muretich of The Calgary Herald wrote " From the ashes of Bauhaus has arisen a British trio that is turning into one of the most impressive and macabre dance bands around.

The most profitable, the 1925 silent film The Calgary Stampede, used footage from the rodeo and exposed people across North America to the event.

Nordstrom officially announced its expansion to Canada on September 13th 2012, announcing the opening of 4 locations in some of the most successful shopping malls in Canada ; Pacific Centre in Vancouver, Chinook Centre in Calgary and Ottawa ’ s Rideau Centre, all owned by Cadillac Fairview and all in Sears stores to close on October 31 2012, the result of a 170 million dollar buyout to vacate the sites.

More recently they have occasionally carried regional broadcasts in the event of conflicts with other Sportsnet programming ( Sportsnet West being the regional rightsholder to both the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames ), most recently in December 2009.

The team is third behind the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs for merchandise sales of Canadian sports teams, and in 2009 the team played in 5 of the 6 most viewed games on television as well as breaking a ratings record for the West Final against the Calgary Stampeders and a Grey Cup ratings record of 43 % of the national population against the Montreal Alouettes.

Three Calgary Flames have won the award, the most of any franchise ; the only other franchises that have had more than one winner are the Boston Bruins, the only team with two consecutive awards, the Edmonton Oilers and the New York Islanders.

In Calgary, most are located in the neighbourhoods immediately surrounding the inner city, such as Marda Loop, Radisson Heights, Crescent Heights, and Killarney.

However, budget cuts over the years eventually forced the network to centralize most of its operations in Toronto and Calgary.

The Calgary Dinos football team has won the Vanier Cup national championship four times ( 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1995 ), the most out of any of the Canada West teams.

Six teams ( Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks ) are tied for second most with two Presidents ' Trophy wins apiece.

The Toronto Suns format has given rise to sister Sun tabloids in major markets across Canada, namely the Edmonton Sun, the Calgary Sun, the Ottawa Sun and most recently the Brampton Sun and York Sun, weekend-only tabloids distributed as sections of the Toronto edition.

In 1948, when he was nineteen Strong was hired as a trainee by a leading brokerage firm, James Richardson & Sons, Limited of Winnipeg where he took an interest in the oil business winning a transfer as an oil specialist to Richardson's office in Calgary, Alberta ; there he made the acquaintance of one of the most successful leaders of the oil industry, Jack Gallagher who hired him as his assistant.

There are 17 black players in the NHL as of the mid-2000s, the most prominent being Canadian Jarome Iginla ( who is currently on the Calgary Flames ).

More significantly, and to the surprise of most observers, the Liberals were able to win three seats in the traditionally conservative city of Calgary.

The Calgary Local Council of Women was the most vocal advocate for turning this area into a park system as a part of a broader campaign for improved public and social services.

In the seventh game of the opening round series against the Calgary Flames, Bure scored one of the most significant and well-known goals in Canucks history.

Plans for this fell through, however, and most G8 protest was confined to the city of Calgary.

In the city of Calgary, with one of the most acute housing shortages, only 16 new units of rental housing were built in 1996.

Facing the Calgary Flames in the opening round, he made one of the most memorable plays in Canucks and NHL playoff history – a series saving stop on Flames forward Robert Reichel during the first overtime of the seventh game.

Giguère spent four seasons in the Flames organization, making brief 15-and 7-game appearances with Calgary in 1998 – 99 and 1999 – 2000, respectively, while spending most of his time in the AHL.