Outpost of the North-West Mounted Police located near the meeting of the Bow & Elbow rivers.
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Fort Calgary was briefly used in the 1890s as a winter telegraph relay station, where operators would string temporary lines along the Bow River ice to keep messages moving when overland routes were cut off by snow.
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Fort Calgary once maintained a small rooftop heliograph station, and for three years in the 1890s it held the unofficial record for the fastest long-distance message relay in the Canadian West, beating the telegraph by a few minutes on clear days.
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Did you know? The original Fort Calgary contained a stable that burned down.
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19 Nov 2025
Artifacts recovered from the Fort Calgary site include buttons, tools, pottery, and personal items — everyday traces of the NWMP that built the region.
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Fort Calgary Historic Site retweeted
26 May 2024
Spent the afternoon at @confluence_yyc helping to take some pictures and videos of their opening today. They were formerly “Fort Calgary” now renamed to the Confluence as they’re at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers. Garret Smith from Piikani performed the tipi raising.
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Fort Calgary Historic Site retweeted
11 May 2024
"Pretty cheesy": Calgarians react to Fort #Calgary name change 🧀🙊
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Fort Calgary Historic Site retweeted
5 May 2024
#LISTEN: Fort Calgary has a new name, and Calgary fire crews sprang into action dousing a house fire in Marlborough. Nadia Moharib has these and more with CityNews 660 this Sunday. calgary.citynews.ca/audio/
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Fort Calgary Historic Site retweeted
4 May 2024
"Fort Calgary, no longer. In an act of reconciliation and rebranding, the museum and event centre that sits at the birthplace of modern-day Calgary will henceforth be known as Confluence Historic Site and Parkland."
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Fort Calgary Historic Site retweeted
3 May 2024
'More stories of history': Fort Calgary rebrands as the Confluence Historic Site and Parkland #yyc calgaryherald.com/news/local…
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3 May 2024
Fort Calgary had a lively history. In 1875, only months after its construction, the Fort was attacked by members of the infamous Dubois Gang.
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Fort Calgary Historic Site retweeted
3 May 2024
Fort Calgary has revealed its new name and brand identity: “The Confluence: Historic Site & Parkland.”
READ MORE: trib.al/qTzoXq3
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2 May 2024
When the RCMP established Fort Calgary in 1875, he relocated the post across the Elbow River and eventually became Manager of the post in 1878.
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2 May 2024
Fort Calgary, Niitsitapi Territory, 1881.
It would be another two years before the Canadian Pacific Railway would reach the area, and three years before Calgary would be incorporated as a town in the North-West Territories.
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