Written by David Mittelstadt in 2000, The Social History of Elbow Park is the story of notable and prominent people who lived in Elbow Park from 1910 to 1960. It comprises the history of the neighbourhood from its earliest beginnings through the explosive growth of Calgary’s first great boom, the First World War, the return to economic prosperity in the twenties, the difficult years of the thirties, the upheaval of another war and the tremendous boom created by Alberta’s oil industry in the post war years. 

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