Telus' Northern Lights Display. Oct. 28, 2020
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South side of the Bow River and heading Downtown.
CENTRE STREET BRIDGE
Entering Downtown.
The Telus building is the one on the right with the row of slanted purple lights.
The Bow Tower is the taller building.
THE TELUS BUILDING and THE BOW TOWER
I'm not sure how I managed to get the moon's landscape into this photograph.
Some have taken a step outside of our Social Bubble.
Looking west along 8th avenue which is now pedestrian friendly and closed to vehicle traffic.
CALGARY TOWER
![Standing alongside three members of the Famous Five located within Olympic Plaza<br />
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"The Famous Five (French: Célèbres cinq), also known as The Valiant Five,[1] and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children.[2] They asked the Supreme Court of Canada to answer the question, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" in the case Edwards v Canada. The five women, Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards, created a petition in an effort to have women considered legally as a person, so that women could be appointed to the Senate.<br />
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The petition was filed on August 27, 1927, although the Supreme Court of Canada passed a decision that women are not such persons. This judgement was overturned by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on October 18, 1929. This case came to be known as the "Persons Case". Although Canadian women (those who were British/Canadian citizens) had the vote in many provinces and in federal elections by 1929, the case was part of a larger drive for political equality."](https://photos.smugmug.com/RANDYS-TREASURE-TROVE/This-and-That/Telus-Northern-Lights-Display-Oct-28-2020/i-dkQWgzP/0/f8dc0fb4/XL/2B44771D-4D29-4F3F-B006-80EC088EA279_1_201_a-XL.jpg)
Standing alongside three members of the Famous Five located within Olympic Plaza
"The Famous Five (French: Célèbres cinq), also known as The Valiant Five,[1] and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children.[2] They asked the Supreme Court of Canada to answer the question, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" in the case Edwards v Canada. The five women, Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards, created a petition in an effort to have women considered legally as a person, so that women could be appointed to the Senate.
The petition was filed on August 27, 1927, although the Supreme Court of Canada passed a decision that women are not such persons. This judgement was overturned by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on October 18, 1929. This case came to be known as the "Persons Case". Although Canadian women (those who were British/Canadian citizens) had the vote in many provinces and in federal elections by 1929, the case was part of a larger drive for political equality."
As luck would have it we had a terrific view of the full moon rising.
The Old City Hall building after restorations were completed on September 15, 2020.
The building is constructed of Paskapoo Sandstone as were a number of other buildings of that time following the Calgary fire of 1866.
The original City Hall building was opened in 1911.
Since restorations were completed in September the clock has not kept an accurate time--it slows down.
There are about nine quality clock repair companies in North America and all are in the US. And until our borders are opened up again a Calgary city official has to go into the tower and manually advance the hands to the correct time.
Time to peddle our way home.