Calgary's Electric Transit: A Century of Transportation Service in Canada's Stampede City

by Tom Schwarzkopf and Colin K. Hatcher

Calgary's Electric Transit is the story of electric street railway, trolleybus and light rail vehicle transit in Canada's western city of Calgary, Alberta. Calgary was founded in 1875, when the North West Mounted Police established a new fort -- Fort Calgary. A big boost for Calgary came eight years later, when the Canadian Pacific Railway -- building westward to the Pacific -- reached the Bow River in 1883. Calgary became an important centre for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897190557
• ISBN13: 9781897190555
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: DC Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 0.8" x 9.0"