The city of Calgary has a population of nearly a million it is described as the posh part of Canada with mainly office blocks and light industry.

I each housing area there is a local shopping centre with very large shops, I visited one centre and a book shop was larger than my local Tesco store.

The people of Calgary are very loyal and patriotic they also have a totally different sense of humor and keep themelves to themselves.

Trying to communicate with the people is very hard work, I must have had the quietest 3 weeks since I was a child and people know I like to chat.

I have still not been able to work out what the people do in their social life the city centre is dead at night I could not see many places of entertainment, I did see a lot of overweight people. They obviously have a different way of living and do not know any other way, I would imagine a large proportion have never been outside Calgary there are not many place to go.

The city of Calgary is very clean the large majority of people are white, I was not aware of any immigrants and the crime rate is very low to what we are used to.

Next I will be talking about the transport system..

I have had a few emails and welcome your questions and comments.......

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 These thoughts are based on visits to my brother and family, they moved from England to Calgary, which is in the state of Alberta south west Canada, 25 years ago and are now Canadian citizens.

The capital of Alberta is Edmonton a large indusrial city which boasts the largest shopping mall in the world.

It is about 230 miles north of Calgary on highway 2, and would you believe it, there is one place in between. This is a town called Red Deer, if you want to stop for a rest  turn off the bypass otherwise you have missed it and will continue travelling on a road with hardly any bends enjoying flat open desert like countryside.

My Niece with her husband and children were staying for a while with my brother which saved me a boring journey to Edmonton to visit them

When talking about the roads and distance it is worth noting that Canada is over 40 times the size of the United Kingdom with half the poplulation.

The area I visited was the South and South West and Calgary which is about the size of England

The next episode is coming shortly, as we go along please let me have your comments plus you may know the area....remember it is not for me but all of us.....

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