Calgary City Information

EDUCATIONAL/ENTERTAINMENT LEARNING IN CALGARY

EDUCATIONAL/ENTERTAINMENT

• Centennial Planetarium and Aero-Space Museum

• Calgary Zoo (Canada's largest - over 1400 live exhibits)

• On-site Botanical Gardens

• Prehistoric Dinosaur Park (53 full scale models and skeletons)

• Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Grounds (site of the world famous "Calgary Stampede" for 10 days during the summer; site of ongoing exhibitions and events all year round.)

• Heritage Park (authentic pre 1915 Western Canada town site)

• Inglewood Bird Sanctuary

• Fort Calgary Interpretive Centre

• 1934 Locomotive Display (2nd largest steam engine in the world)

• Lancaster Bomber Display (World War II Warrior)

• Calgary Tower (a great orientation point in the centre of downtown Calgary with a revolving restaurant at the top)

• Sam Livingstone Fish Hatcheries (designed to provide 8.6 million fish per year to stock Alberta's lakes and streams)

Located only one hour from the majestic Rocky Mountains, Calgary offers its citizens unlimited recreational opportunities. In only an hour, you can be skiing some of the greatest runs in the world, fishing in one of the finest trout rivers in North America, hiking the trails and mountains of two National Parks, or golfing some of the country's most beautiful and challenging golf courses.