Happy Canada Day!
Author: Ara (Page 40 of 41)
Rain falling on Poppy Plaza on the last night of June 2015.
“The Sunnyside C-Train station opened in 1987. It was controversial because members of the community pushed to prevent the stop from construction due to the demolition of homes and the disruption of 9A Street N.W. (a number of homes and apartment blocks which were not demolished were left with no front street access). Nearly 30 years later, the rumble of the train is a familiar sound.”
“Come in when you want. You wanna look good? We’ll make you look good. You wanna look bad? Go to somebody else. Ha ha!” – Issa from London Barbers on 10th
Summer flowers in bloom on Memorial Drive.
“I just saw a guy try to kill himself from jumping off the balcony from that building there. The shit you see sometimes at ground level…
Oh well. It is what it is, I suppose. Take care of yourself brother.”
“It’s nice to see Calgary embracing hand-made crafts and artwork – it’s something special.” – Pam Morales, CraftedTruck.ca
“Who wants Riley Park!?”
“When farmer-politician Ezra H. Riley subdivided Hillhurst in 1904, he chose British street names such as Kensington Avenue, Gladstone Road, Preston Street and Beverly Street. The city annexed Hillhurst in 1907 and before long, most of the street names were changed to numbers. Kensington Avenue became Centre Avenue, and served as the dividing point between northwest and southwest Calgary. When the quadrant boundary shifted south to the Bow River in 1926, Kensington Road acquired its present name.”
“They’re going to tear it down and turn it into affordable housing for 25 people who have managed to get off the streets.The afgans and yarn bombing is a way to show thanks to what this house was and what it’s going to become – a home.” – Linda Hawke, President of the Board of This is My City Art Society (TMC)
Find out more about this project at: The Calgary Homeless Foundation.