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Constructed in 1910 and expanded c.1913, the G. F. & J. Galt & Co. Wholesale Grocers Warehouse and its contribution to Calgary's historic wholesale/warehouse district, recalls Calgary's historic status as the most important wholesale and distribution centre between Winnipeg and Vancouver. Due to Calgary's location on both the C.P.R. east-west mainline (established 1883) and the company's important north-south line between Fort Macleod and Edmonton (completed 1892), the city was destined to become a major regional distribution centre. This position was strengthened in 1902 when the railway agreed to offer preferred freight rates on goods shipped from the city. An influx of pioneer settlers and immigrants to the city and region reached a peak from 1909-13 and Calgary thrived as a commercial centre. From Calgary's wholesale district local and national companies supplied the growing city and region with a wide array of merchandise including farm machinery and parts, groceries, dry goods, building supplies and hardware.
At the October 18 CHA board meeting the Board approved the following sites to be updated or added to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.
Sien Lok Park – 100 Block of Riverfront AV SW (Chinatown) Year Built: 1972-1982
Sien Lok Park is symbolic of the survival and flourishing of Calgary’s Chinatown and the downtown riverbank, which narrowly escaped destruction through several City Administration proposals in the 1960s. (Symbolic Value, City-wide Significance)
The park possesses institution value for its association with Sien Lok, its namesake, and other Chinese societies for over five decades. (Institution Value, Community Significance)
Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre – 197 1 St SW (Chinatown) Year Built: 1992
The Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre is significant for its high artistic value. The central pagoda-style rooftop feature topped with a gold knob is covered in layered blue tiles. The circular multi-storey atrium is highly decorated with four gold-and-red painted columns and an extensively painted ceiling with culturally significant colours, patterns, and figures. (Design Value, City Wide Significance)
The closure of a public street to place a building in Calgary is a unique situation which created a landmark location for the Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre where 2 AV SW intersects with 1 ST SW. Notable for its pagoda-style roof, modeled after the Hall of Prayers of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, this is Chinatown’s most recognized building. (Landmark Value, City Wide Significance)
The Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre, built in 1992, is significant as the first building to provide for cultural revival in Calgary’s Chinatown community. The centre is valued for how it expanded a business-focused Chinatown vision into a liveable community to meet the needs of the Chinese community and at the same time grow it as a cultural centre for the wider Chinese. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)
Chinese National League Hall – 110 3 Av SE (Chinatown) Year Built: 1953-1954
This building possesses institutional value for over six decades of continuous service to the Chinese National League, one of Calgary’s oldest and most important Chinese institutions, which at one time counted eighty per cent of the city’s Chinese community in its membership. (Institution Value, Community Significance)
The hall, designed by architects Clayton, Bond & Mogridge, is a rare example of Modern Classicism in the city, and a relatively late Post-War expression of that style. (Style Value, Community Significance)
As one of Chinatown’s notable mid-century buildings, the hall is also symbolic of the community’s Post-War development following the repeal of the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act in 1946. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)
Victoria Pavilion – 1410 Olympic Wy SE (Beltline) Year Built: 1919
The Victoria Pavilion possesses activity value as a venue for Calgary Stampede and other agriculture-related events such as the annual Calgary Bull Sale, dairy shows, 4-H Club events, sheep-shearing, livestock judging, and cowboy poetry readings. (Activity Value, City Wide Significance)
The Pavilion has been the venue for many private and community events, including boxing and wrestling matches (most notably as a venue for Stampede Wrestling), church services and revivals, conventions, pet shows, horticultural shows, musical performances, and political speeches and rallies. (Activity Value, City Wide Significance)
The Pavilion has institutional value as a Calgary Stampede event venue. The Stampede was and remains a central institution in the city. Both functionally and symbolically, the Stampede organization and its annual rodeo and exhibition support, embody, and symbolize Calgary’s agricultural heritage and economic sector, its western traditions, and its spirit of hospitality. (Institutional Value, City Wide Significance)
The building also has institutional value as the primary venue of Stampede Wrestling, a popular and longstanding wrestling promotion in the city. Through its live wrestling competitions and television broadcasts, Stampede Wrestling was an important cultural institution in the city. (Institutional Value, City Wide Significance)
The building was associated with Ed Whalen, a well-known television sports broadcaster who hosted Stampede Wrestling’s live events and television broadcasts, primarily at the Pavilion, for many years. (Person Value, City Wide Significance)
The Pavilion has symbolic value as the oldest functional building in Stampede Park. It was one of two new major structures (and the only one remaining) built on the agricultural grounds in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. The agricultural grounds were a central component of city life. (Symbolic value, City Wide Significance)
Treend Residence – 1933 5 St SW (Cliff Bungalow) Year Built 1922
The Treend Residence possesses style value as a rare, well-crafted and highly intact example of the Prairie Style in Calgary. (Style Value, City Wide Significance)
The house has person value through two notable occupants, Lena Hanen and Harold Hanen. Lena expanded her ladies’ clothing store, the Betty Shop, into a chain of 40 outlets. Her son, Harold, was a significant architect and urban planner who is best known for his work as a city planner to establish Calgary’s Plus-15 network. (Person Value, City Wide Significance)
It has activity value through Harold Hanen’s use of the home as a solo office for his architecture practice in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Activity Value, Community Significance)
The expansive home with extensive landscaping and tall trees is situated on a large corner lot on Royal Avenue and 5 ST SW. It is a landmark in the Cliff Bungalow neighbourhood. Royal Avenue is an entry road into Mount Royal, and the house serves as a transition to that district (Landmark Value, Community Significance)
