Something cool to know about Signal hill

[Graham_A_M]

The other day I was talking with this older guy that was born and raised in Calgary, and he was from signal hill.. but long story short I asked him what those huge stone numbers mean that are facing south, that overlook the Westhills shopping complex.

(you know those random numbers on the hillside written in white rocks)

Apparently up until the 1950's or 1960's... the whole Westhills area was actually a training ground for the Canadian Forces, along with the barracks that once stood just west of the Sarcee & 37th street intersection.

When Calgary grew, the whole area was cleaned up of all the Military buildings, shells and "fox holes" to make way for the new development (whereas the Suffield airforce base east of Medicine hat now continues the training operations).

Those huge white numbers are actually the "Birgade" numbers, that were placed there to commemorate the battalion for later years.

I found a pic on Google Earth, but I can't seem to provide a link, so I'll write down the cordinates, that just need to be copy & pasted.
battalion park"
lat=51.0210451382, lon=-114.172921609

[dino_martini]

Yea. If you go up on the hill there is like a monument and has a bunch of info about all that.

[canadian_hustla]

Originally posted by Graham_A_M
The other day I was talking with this older guy that was born and raised in Calgary, and he was from signal hill.. but long story short I asked him what those huge stone numbers mean that are facing south, that overlook the Westhills shopping complex.

(you know those random numbers on the hillside written in white rocks)

Apparently up until the 1950's or 1960's... the whole Westhills area was actually a training ground for the Canadian Forces, along with the barracks that once stood just west of the Sarcee & 37th street intersection.

When Calgary grew, the whole area was cleaned up of all the Military buildings, shells and "fox holes" to make way for the new development (whereas the Suffield airforce base east of Medicine hat now continues the training operations).

Those huge white numbers are actually the "Birgade" numbers, that were placed there to commemorate the battalion for later years.

I found a pic on Google Earth, but I can't seem to provide a link, so I'll write down the cordinates, that just need to be copy & pasted.
battalion park"
lat=51.0210451382, lon=-114.172921609


you are absolutely right, I have heard this as well.. very cool.

[barbarian]

Link via google maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=westhills+mall,+calgary,+ab&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=51.021138,-114.172416&spn=0.002484,0.005021&t=k&om=1)

[Kobe]

Yah there a bunch of signs with info, back in gr.8 and 9 everyone would actually go drink there on friday and sat nights..


They havn't been taking care of it as much this year..


Wow didn't know the people near us had a swimming pool

[Whitetiger]

Originally posted by barbarian
Link via google maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=westhills+mall,+calgary,+ab&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=51.021138,-114.172416&spn=0.002484,0.005021&t=k&om=1)

That's pretty cool :thumbsup:

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Yea my dad told me that a while back... My dad's a war history freak, but some cool little tid bits :thumbsup:

[Supa Dexta]

Zoom out a bit, and click map (rather then satellite view) look east, to the sask border and see that grey spot above medicine hat? I assume thats military? if you zoom in on the grey spot and go back to sat. veiw, its all huge circles.. looks pretty strange...

I was going to go look for pools when I found this..ha.. If you look over some cities in ontario or around montreal theres TONS of pools.. its amazing when you fly over, every house has a pool..

[JAYMEZ]

Lol ive posted this already! Boooo hahah.

[barbarian]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Zoom out a bit, and click map (rather then satellite view) look east, to the sask border and see that grey spot above medicine hat? I assume thats military? if you zoom in on the grey spot and go back to sat. veiw, its all huge circles.. looks pretty strange...

I was going to go look for pools when I found this..ha.. If you look over some cities in ontario or around montreal theres TONS of pools.. its amazing when you fly over, every house has a pool..

That's Suffield Range, isn't it?

[slammed_cb7]

As far as i kno, thats it. I rememeber in CFB Borden, the cars GPS craps out as soon as you drive through the front gates.

[Supa Dexta]

http://s12.imagehosting.us/uploadpoint/imagehosting_upload_storage/nouser_1849/T0_-1_1849505.JPG

there it is.. it has to be 30km's across... So if it's military, is it a target? I thought the missle ranges and stuff tended to be far north, and not right next to a city...

[hoamic11]

thats cool, i never knew what they were

[TeamBestBud]

Well that's nice to know..