Calgary, Alberta recent comments:

I used to run into those Ranchlands kids on the hill. They called me a retard but they couldn't match my skills on a waxed up crazy carpet.

I have a old aerial photo that I believe is of Beddington under development (taken late '70s I believe), which shows the track just north of the split rock. Unfortunately I can't paste in to this post, but email me at brharris@shaw.ca and I'll send you a copy.

Rascist term are you kidding me... Is this a joke?

I remember riding our bikes there as a kid, now 50 it would be cool to see the old site. Am I correct in saying it was near a spot called Split Rock?

It should never have been called Marquis de Lorne because the Marquess (Canada's forth Govenor General) was not French but English. I believe this is the reason so many people in Calgary are confused about the pronunciation of the title and pronounce it "mar-key". The British nobleman tile is pronounced "mar'-quiss" and it is written Marquess. Marquis is the French spelling. So the road name is still spelled incorrectly even though the de has been dropped. There is even a community association that calls itself the Marquis de Lorne community association. Again, the man was not French and if we're going to name a road in his honour we should at least spell and pronounce it correctly. To this writer's knowledge, nowhere else in Canada is his title mispronounced or misspelled. I guess people still don't check facts despite it being as easy as doing an Internet search.

Parkland

Deer Run

I don't agree with you. I am a Scottie, l grew up on Scotsman's hill and if anything the term is endearing. With that said I respect your opinion Steve

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Ebola Heights?

I was living that house. Elevator was so bad. Management never look up that. when things are not working, they always come after few days. I had one year contact and last month they charged me 1325 dollars without asking me. I had also deposit 1250 dollars and they cut 350 dollars for not cleaning the carpet which I did from a professional, and another things missing blinds which never missing. who ever was checking with me they lie and I tried to contact with the management and they never call me back. I hope people will have an idea what type of Building is it

schemenke isn't speaking of CIR (Sheperd).Stampede (not circle 8 raceway is where he says in the SE it is still visible on Google earth just north of 50th ave between 52nd street and Stony.

my dad works at the hangar as a maintenance quality manager his name is Wade Merrick

One of the cheapest gas stations in Downtown area.

I spent much of my childhood back in the 60's there. Good and bad memories.

Expensive mansions worth $1Mio and higher...

Seems to be vacant with broken windows.

Schmenke the track you are talking about is the Stampede Speedway. They moved the dirt track down there after they paved the original track and named it Circle 8. Circle 8 was north of the city just off Center Street.