Fort Calgary

Fort Calgary
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North-West Mounted Police with Kainai Nation members at Fort Calgary, 1878
Etymology	Calgary House, a castle at Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull, Scotland
Location	750 9th Avenue SE Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates	51°02′43″N 114°02′44″W / 51.04528°N 114.04556°W / 51.04528; -114.04556
Area	12 hectares (30 acres)
Built	1875
Built for	North-West Mounted Police
Original use	Police outpost
Demolished	1914
Current use	Historic park and social centre
Visitors	25,193[1] (in 2019)
Governing body	The Confluence Historic Site and Parkland[note 1]
Owner	City of Calgary
Website	www.theconfluence.ca
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	Fort Calgary National Historic Site
Designated	15 May 1925

Fort Calgary was a North-West Mounted Police outpost at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in present-day Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Originally named Fort Brisebois, after the outpost's first commander, the outpost was renamed Fort Calgary in June 1876.

The outpost was built in 1875 as a part of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) larger effort to curtail American rum and whisky runners in the region, and to establish relationships with the Indigenous peoples of the territory. The fort was expanded in 1882 after it was designated as a "district post". The NWMP continued to use the fort until 1914 when the site was sold to Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The fort was demolished to make way for a rail terminal, although the site's significance was later recognized when it was named a National Historic Site in 1925.

In 1975, the municipal government of Calgary purchased a plot of land that included the National Historic Site and reopened it as Fort Calgary Historic Park in 1978. The historic park initially documented the NWMP role in the area, although its scope was expanded to focus on the Calgary's history in 1995. Reconstruction of several former buildings within Fort Calgary took place in the 1990s. In 2024, the Fort Calgary Historic Park was rebranded as The Confluence Historic Site and Parkland.

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