I tried searching for old aerial photos of that area and came up with nothing. But I did find a cool one of the Deerfoot and 22x intersection back in 1988... to think how easy it would have been to make a ring road to nowhere back then:
For people trying to get their bearings, bottom left is Bow River and where Cranston currently is, and the community being developed in the middle left of the picture is McKenzie Lake.