Inglewood explores its history

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Inglewood explores its history

Postby newsposter » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:03 am

The historic Inglewood community is making the most of its rich history.

Current issues of the Inglewood community newsletter include a serialized history of the Inglewood Community Association - including the community's efforts to defeat the freeway plans of 1960s and early 1970s that would have destroyed the neighbourhood. The newsletter is available online in pdf format at: http://www.icacalgary.com/

The Alexandra Centre Society, based out of Inglewood's sandstone Alexandra School building, has launched an oral history project about the history of the Inglewood community and its activists over the past 30 + years. Our Story... Inglewood In Our Words is supported by a Calgary Foundation grant. http://www.alexandracentresociety.org/
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Postby newsposter » Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:11 pm

The Alexandra centre's history book, about it's origins in Inglewood in the 1970s, is now available. In the historic Alexandra sandstone school...

http://alexandracentresociety.org/pdf/BookSaleAd.pdf

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Over 30 Years of History.....

In 1973 the Inglewood and Ramsay districts were designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Program (N.I.P) area. The funds made available allowed the communities of Inglewood and Ramsay to carry out various local improvement projects, industrial relocation and housing developments. The primary project undertaken was the restoration of the Alexandra School building, despite reports that condemned the building. Area residents in partnership with the late Jack Long, a local architect planner and community resident, embarked upon the Alexandra restoration project. The project created a facility to house badly needed community services and programs for Inglewood and Ramsay.

The Alexandra Centre restoration was completed in December 1975, with an official opening held in June 1976. The Alexandra Centre Society was incorporated in December 1975, as a charitable organisation, to ensure that the objectives of the Inglewood Ramsay Redevelopment Committee were carried out on an ongoing basis. In more recent years, the Alexandra Centre Society has extended its geographic service area to include Victoria Park. A Board of Directors who are residents of the Tri-Area communities protects the integrity of the Society's Tri-area community Mandate.


See also this link for info about the "Jack Long Park" project:
http://calgaryheritage.org/CHIForum/viewto ... =alexandra
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Postby newsposter » Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:04 pm

Another ode to Inglewood, this time in the June 2010 edition of Beat Route:

http://www.beatroute.ca/view_article.ph ... cleID=3145
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