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Calgary Signal Hill is about 3,485 km from Parliament Hill. It’s a drive that would take 36 hours via the Trans-Canada Highway.
Residents mostly rely on automobiles for transport, however about 15% of the riding’s working population uses public transit, including buses and Calgary’s C-Train light rail system
Calgary Signal Hill is located south of the Bow River and west of the downtown core. It encompasses the western areas of the city and is mainly urban and residential.
The riding is home to the Paskapoo slopes, an area of rolling prairie grassland hills and wooded slopes encompassing the Canada Olympic Park. It is the oldest archaeological site in Calgary and has a buffalo jump of historic importance.
The average income in Calgary Signal Hill is $69,304.
Most of the population comes from British backgrounds, while many also report German and French heritage.
Spanish, Tagalog, and German are the top non-official languages spoken in the riding.
The riding’s median age is 38.
WinSport Canada is a major source of recreation. In addition to skiing, snowboarding and other winter sports, WinSport Arena is a venue for major concerts, events and sports competitions. Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame is also located here, and offers interactive exhibits such as sport challenges, touch-screen sport lessons, and 3D simulations.
Olympic Park was the primary venue for ski jumping, bobsleigh, and luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics. It was here that the famous Jamaican bobsled team competed and inspired the movie “Cool Runnings.”
Paskapoo is a Cree word meaning “blind man,” named after the Blindman River.
Many residents work in the industry of professional, scientific and technical services. Other top industries include: health care and social assistance, retail trade, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.
The riding’s average home value is $547,367.
Calgary’s light rail transit system, the C-Train, has already reduced its environmental footprint by using renewable energy sources to power the trains. The 69th Street LRT Park and Ride is the city’s first station equipped with a 30-kilowatt solar PV system.
Battalion Park is located on Signal Hill on the old grounds of the Sarcee Training Area, used to train Canadian from pre-First World War days until the 1990s. The park contains four geoglyphs of the numbers 137, 113, 151, and 51. These numbers honour the Alberta battalions of the First World War.
