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Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada (1912)

Parks, William A. (William Arthur), 1868-1936, Canada. Mines Branch (1901-1936) · Ottawa : Dept. of Mines, Mines Branch · leaf 342

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and the typical yellow-ish-bufT stone of Calgary. Large amounts of stone were raised at Glen-bow and later at Cochrane but at the time of my visit no quarrying opera-tions were being carried on. C. de Lavergne, Glenbow, owner; Quifilan Carter Co., operators, Calgary. Glenbow station is on the main… … Paskapoo sandstone, Calgary quarries.Carnegie Public Library, Calgary, Alberta. 229 The bank of the river extends several hundred feet above the railway. Be-low the track thin sandstones and shales are to be seen: the same forma-tion outcrops at intervals up the hillside and is topped with heavy…

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