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

A Calgary chapter was set up, with the first group finishing its training in March 2007.

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 event's roots are traced to 1886 when the Calgary and District Agricultural Society held its first fair.

The Calgary and District Agricultural Society was formed in 1884 to promote the town and encourage farmers and ranchers from eastern Canada to move west.

The Calgary Humane Society has found itself at odds with other organizations by choosing to work with the Stampede to ensure that stress on the animals is kept to a minimum.

* Calgary Bird Banding Society

* 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.

In the community, Murdoch was involved with the Masonic Lodge and the Orange Order in Canada, literary and history societies, volunteer fire brigade, was one of the founders of Calgary's Presbyterian Church and the first President of the Calgary St. Andrew's Society.

Created in 1992 by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers ( CSIF ), the $ 100 Film Festival started as a challenge for area filmmakers to a make low budget movie using Super8 film for less than $ 100.

Students at the University of Victoria Students ' Society, and the Graduate Student Association at the University of Calgary collected enough signatures to initiate a decertification vote.

The stadium is owned by the University of Calgary and operated by the McMahon Stadium Society.

A few Independent organizations such as the Toronto Animated Image Society in Toronto and especially the Quickdraw Animation Society in Calgary have also formed and continue to contribute, explore the art of animation and produce new works by emerging and established Canadian animators and artists.

The site is operated by the Fort Calgary Preservation Society.

He was a founding member of the Special Forces Club in Knightsbridge, and of the Food and Wine Society in Calgary.

The Calgary Zoological Society was established in 1929.

An active community member, Stevens served in the role of president of the Palliser Bayview Pumphill Community Association, director of the Community Mediation Calgary Society, director of the Federation of Calgary Communities, and director and vice chair of the Calgary Housing Authority.

( 2008 ), Subscour displacement in clays from physical tests, Proceedings of the 5th International Pipeline Conference ( IPC ), American Society of Mechanical Engineers ( ASME ), Calgary, Canada.

* Peter Fitzgerald-Moore's Lectures on Technology and Society at the University of Calgary

He has also wrestled for the Mexican promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and the short-lived Wrestling Society X on MTV, and operates a wrestling school in Calgary.

Initially, the CCDTF was entirely funded by two Chinese community organizations, the United Calgary Chinatown Association and the Sien Lok Society of Calgary.

Following the folk revivals of the second half of the 20th century, however, it has become common for less formal situations to find large groups of fiddlers playing together — see for example the Calgary Fiddlers, and Swedish Spelmanslag folk-musician clubs, and the worldwide phenomenon of Irish sessions.

On July 12, 2012, for one night only, Brooks performed in front of a sold out audience at Scotiabank Saddledome to help the Calgary Stampede celebrate its centennial anniversary.

In 1908 he was one of five people appointed to the first Library Board for the city of Calgary and was instrumental in establishing the Calgary Public Library.

* The Jamaica national bobsled team received major media attention and stunned the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada for its unexpected good performance.

* Calgary Board of Education, public school board for the city of Calgary, Alberta.

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

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.

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

The new board's first act was to take applications for " second " television stations in Halifax, Montreal ( in both English and French ), Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver in response to an outcry for an alternative to the CBC's television service.

The Atlanta Flames, established in 1972, departed for Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1980 to become the Calgary Flames.

Although the salary cap was a blow to one of the highest spenders of the league, the Colorado Avalanche finished the 2005 – 06 regular season with a 43 – 30 – 9 record for 95 points, good enough to finish second in the Northwest Division, seven behind the Calgary Flames and tied with the Edmonton Oilers.

The team won the last game of the season against the Calgary Flames the following day and finished fourth in the Northwest Division and ninth in the Western Conference with a 44 – 31 – 7 record for 95 points, one less than eighth-seeded Calgary.

Terry Crisp, who played for the Philadelphia Flyers when they won two Stanley Cups in the mid-1970s, and coached the Calgary Flames to a Cup in 1989, was tapped as the first head coach.

The Blackhawks beat the fifth-seeded Calgary Flames in six games to advance to the Western Conference Semifinals for the first time since 1996.

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.

Competing for the same hockey market, the Canucks emerged over the Blazers as the latter relocated to Calgary, Alberta, the following season.

With the Stars struggling to begin the season, GM and head coach Bob Gainey traded for center Joe Nieuwendyk from the Calgary Flames for Corey Millen and Jarome Iginla, then a Stars prospect.

In 1984, he began specialty training in Public Health ( Prevention ) and, after graduating in 1989, co-ordinated a primary health care project for the University of Calgary in the Philippines.

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