A heritage-focussed article in the Calgary Herald's "Project Calgary" series:
A snapshot of Calgary in 1941
By TONY SESKUS, Calgary Herald December 13, 2011
CALGARY — Calgary doesn’t like mind readers — or at least it sure looked that way once.
While coal agents, cow keepers and peanut vendors paid just a few bucks for a business licence long ago, mind readers had to shell out $500 to ply their trade in the “Sunshine City of the Foothills.”
Only a handful of other enterprises paid more, like the circus.
In 1941, when the average Canadian wage was $150 a month, you didn’t need to read minds to know you weren’t wanted.
But that’s just one of the things we learned as the Herald delved into the archives to better understand our city and the development of our neighbourhoods as part of Project Calgary...
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