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Our second Field of Fame was unveiled in June 2011 in the Calgary Court Centre Park (since renamed Harley Hotchkiss Park) at 7th Ave. and 4th St. SW, right adjacent to the LRT plaform. The worthy individuals recognized at that site include Annie Gale, Senator James Lougheed, Grant MacEwan, W.O. Mitchell, Maude Riley and Arthur Smith.
Location of Field of Fame #2
Harley Hotckisss Park at the Court of Queens Bench Parking lot & 5th Street (westbound) LRT Station
Maude Riley (1882 to 1962)
Maude (Keen) Riley grew up in Perth County, Ontario and became a teacher through the Ontario Normal School. Upon gaining her certification, she accepted a position to teach at Nose…
W.O. Mitchell (1914 to 1998)
W.O., the only Canadian writer known by his initials alone, was one of Canada's best loved story tellers. Who Has Seen the Wind has become the classic Canadian prairie novel…
The Honourable Grant MacEwan, OC, AOE (1902 to 2000)
John Walter Grant MacEwan was born in Brandon, Manitoba, where he lived until he was thirteen when he moved with his family to a farm near Melfort, Saskatchewan. There,…
Senator Sir James Alexander Lougheed (1854 to 1925)
James Lougheed was born in Brampton, Ontario to Irish Protestant parents. He grew up there, and went to school at the University of Toronto, obtaining a law degree in 1881.…
Arthur Ryan Smith (1919 to 2008)
Arthur Smith, O.C., A.O.E, D.F.C, Order of Merit (Hungary), LLD (Hon.) was born and raised in Calgary, and moved to Turner Valley when he was sixteen to work in the…
Annie Rolinson Gale (1876 to 1970)
Annie Gale was a British immigrant to Calgary in the early twentieth century who dove straight into community politics in order to make her city a better place to live,…
