This Canadian historic site is a fun place to visit if you want to get a sense of how Calgary came to be.
Fort Calgary is the symbolic heart of the City of Calgary, and this museum describes, through a sequence of rooms and exhibits, how the fort came to anchor the city, from the establishment of the fort itself by the predecessor of the RCMP, to the blooming of a city as ranchers, oilmen and other settlers found a home in the shade and protection of the fort.
Several of the exhibits are fun to play with even if you don't care about the history. One of the rooms has many old time toys - dolls, jack in the boxes, board games and other wooden or mechanical playthings. A different room looks like a small broadcast booth complete with implements (chains, coconut shells, clapper) for reenacting a radio drama.