ALBERTA, “WILD ROSE COUNTRY”

CALGARY, "HEART OF THE NEW WEST"

BY CLAY LARROY

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Alberta's Largest City, Calgary   by Allison Rodriguez

Calgary is the largest city within Alberta's province in Canada. Calgary city is located in the Parkland region of Alberta. Calgary is located in the south of Alberta's province where the area is surrounded by foothills and high plains, approximately 50 miles east of the front ranges the Canadian Rockies.

The Calgary-Edmonton Corridor, is well known as the narrow populated area between these two cities. Calgary is also known as the largest Canadian Metropolitan area between Toronto and Vancouver. Calgary is a popular city where is considered primarily as a destination for winter sports and ecotourism with many mountain resorts near the city and metropolitan area.

Calgary's economy is centered mostly on the petroleum industry, but also agriculture, tourism, high-tech industries, among other things also contribute to the fast economic growth. Calgary [http://www.calgarytouristtv.com] is also known as a city where people like to entertain themselves and have a great time, which is why this city offers it's residents and visitors many major annual events including the following:

- Calgary Stampede
- The Folk Music Festival
- The Lilac Festival
- One Yellow Rabbit High Performance Rodeo
- Calgary's International Festival of the Arts
- Wordfest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival
- One World Festival (GlobalFest)
- The fourth largest Caribbean festival in the country the well-known Carifest.

The city of Calgary was ranked as the world's cleanest city by Mercer Quality of Living in a survey that was published by magazine in 2007. This neat, beautiful and spectacular city became the first Canadian city to host the Olympic Winter Games plus one of the fastest long track speed skating ice rinks in the world was built at the University of Calgary to accommodate these Games.

Despite recent diversification Calgary's economy is still dominated by industries of oil and gas and an example of the largest companies of this industry are the following:

-BD
-EnCana
-Imperial Oil
- Petro Canada
- Shell Canada
- Suncor Energy
- TransCanada

These companies make the city home to 87% of Canada's oil and natural gas producers and 66% of coal producers.

About the Author

Allison Rodriquez is the owner and operator of Calgary Tourist TV [http://www.calgarytouristtv.com] which is the best site on the internet for all Calgary related information.

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“Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.” 

– Jack Layton

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