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Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!
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You might say that Calgary's Western identity TODAY is fake. Even that would be a push, but it's true that most of the city is not from here.
But to claim that the city's Western heritage is fake and was never a real thing is just... bizarre. The city was built on ranching and logging. It's biggest event is a giant rodeo. It may be full of newfies and carpet bagging Ontarians now, but to say that it never had a Western heritage is just silly.
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It's almost as if Alberta never existed before 1947, or voted a party called the United Farmers Of Alberta into government for 14 years.