Calgary's birthday — Is it 150 years old, or just 131?

Calgary's birthday — Is it 150 years old, or just 131?

Much could be made of the fact that little is being done to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of Fort Calgary, the locus of European settlement at the confluence of the Elbow River and the Bow River in 1875. Distracting from the topic is the fact that Calgary was not established as a town until later, and then even later as a city.