Calgary

Calgary, a town of the North-west Territory of Canada, with station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 2262 miles W. of Montreal. It stands 3380 feet above sea-level, in a broad and level valley between the Bow and Elbow rivers, has numerous stores, and is a trading centre for a wide district, much of which is taken up for cattle-ranching. It dates from 1884. Pop. (1891) 3876.—There is a bay of this name on the north-west coast of the island of Mull in Scotland.