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Marker detail: Annie Gale

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1 ► Alberta, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary, Downtown Commercial — Annie Gale — 1876-1970 — An Alberta Champion —

Annie Gale was a British immigrant to Canada who dove straight into community politics to improve the standard of living in her new home. In a matter of only ten years in Calgary, she accomplished many important social and political changes. . . . — — Map (db m221494) HM

2 ► Alberta, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary, Downtown Commercial — Sir James Alexander Lougheed — 1854-1925 — An Alberta Champion —

James Lougheed was born in Ontario in 1854. After achieving a law degree from the University of Toronto, he moved west, settling in Calgary in 1885. There Lougheed started a legal practice in partnership with future Prime Minister R.B. Bennett and . . . — — Map (db m221495) HM

3 ► Alberta, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary, Downtown Commercial — Grant MacEwan — 1902-2000 — An Alberta Champion —

Grant MacEwan, OC, AOE, was born in Manitoba but spent his formative years on his family’s farm near Melfort, Saskatchewan. Following undergraduate and graduate studies in Canada and the United States, he entered university life in 1928 serving as . . . — — Map (db m221496) HM

4 ► Alberta, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary, Downtown Commercial — W. O. Mitchell — 1914-1998 — An Alberta Champion —

William Ormond Mitchell was one of Canada's best loved storytellers. Who Has Seen the Wind (1947) has become the classic Canadian prairie novel selling almost a million copies since its publication, and Jake and the Kid became one of . . . — — Map (db m221497) HM

5 ► Alberta, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary, Downtown Commercial — Maude Riley — 1882-1962 — An Alberta Champion —

Maude Keen was born in Ontario, moving to Calgary to teach school in 1903. She married Harold Riley and they had three children. Soon after she joined the Local Council of Women, becoming an activist for dower rights and the right to vote for women . . . — — Map (db m221498) HM

6 ► Alberta, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary, Downtown Commercial — Arthur Ryan Smith — 1919-2008 — An Alberta Champion —

Arthur Smith, OC, AOE, D.F.C, Order of Merit (Hungary), LLD (Hon.) was born in Calgary. In 1940, he enlisted in the military, serving as an RAF Bomber Command Pilot and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. Mr. Smith later held the offices of . . . — — Map (db m221499) HM