| In 1795 William
Tomison, a native of Scotland, began the building of the city of
Edmonton.
Calgary
was founded in 1875 as a fort for the Northwest Mounted Police by Col.
James F. MacLeod, who named the place after his wife’s hometown on the
Island of Mull. A statue of
Robert the Bruce looks out on the downtown. In
1905 Scot Alex Rutherford became Alberta’s first premier and at least
5 other Scots have followed him. |
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