Colourful Calgary: An Olympic City with Western Flavour and Cosmopolitan Look

Joan McGrath is a Toronto Board of Education library consultant.

Just over 100 years old, Calgary is a great city on the move. Traces of its rawboned past are prized and preserved, but it is truly a metropolis of today, its glass and concrete skyscrapers towering above crowded streets, its most familiar landmark the futuristic Calgary Tower.

Colourful Calgary provides a brief history of the booming city, touching upon the famed Calgary Stampede, the cultural life of the city, its economic situation and prospects, climate, population, and appeal to visitors. But, while readable enough, the text provides a mere grace note to a collection of glowing photographs that need no words to tell their story. This attractive introduction to Calgary, like Brybycin’s other photographic essays, will be a handsome addition to any collection of pictorial Canadiana.