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Calgary Spring, Alberta, Canada, 1986

A spring blizzard blankets Calgary with snow. Born as a cow town, Calgary boomed with later discoveries of rich oil and gas fields in Alberta.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in the National Geographic book Traveling the Trans-Canada from Newfoundland to British Columbia, 1987)

Photograph by George F. Mobley

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