I would like to have added a category for a Calgary neighborhood called Nose Creek.

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I have already done the profiles for a number of people who lived or worked in that area.

Canada   Calgary   Categorization

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Hi Devon. To attract attention to your question, try clicking the edit link just below it. On the resulting screen, in the Surnames/Tags box, enter

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Nice try, Devon, but the tags need to go in the Surnames/Tags field, not the large box :-)

Answer 1

hi Devon,

Just been looking through Google to find this, all I find are related to Nose Creek, West Nose Creek, and Nose Creek Park.  I don't see that Nose Creek as such was ever a separate municipality.  We don't normally drill down to street level for categories, nor ''neighbourhoods''.

What you might consider is a one-place study, which can and does do this sort if thing.

Answer 2

A one-place study is exactly what I would like to do for this particular area located between Bridgeland-Riverside and Mayland Heights.  In the late 1800's to the mid-1900's it used to have ranches, homes and businesses.  I have written profiles of a number of people who used to be associated with this lost neighborhood and I'd like to be able to group them together, please!

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contact One Place Studies project, they will tell you how to do this and get you started with examples and category.

Answer 3

Hi Devon, I googled Calgary 1950s Nose Creek area and found a historical map with names of property owners who lived along the creek.  In the 1950's my parents and I would visit mom's sister and family who lived there.  My cousins and I would walk across the creek on the train bridge that was close to where they lived. Good luck in your endeavours.

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I'm glad someone knows what I'm talking about.  There used to be quite a community down there - all gone now, though.

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You're right, not too many people have ever heard of Nose Creek.  I see there is a facebook group that is trying to save some of that area as open space rather than total development.  I was born in Calgary and have many relatives around there but I moved away in the 1970's and am not familiar with anything there now.  My uncle had an auto-wrecking/junk dealer kind of business in the 1950's and 1960's.  And they had a grumpy old one-eyed dog that growled at me every time I went near him.  haha.  It's funny the things that a person remembers 60 years later.  Good luck!

Answer 4

I received a lot of help, especially from Sandy Patak,  and now we have a one place study set up for Nose Creek, Alberta.  For a long time the Calgary section near the Bow was quite a seamy area so it's going to be fun working on early residents.  Nowadays it's much more dull with the zoo parking lot and the Telus Science Centre.