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Calgary has always been a city of vast progress and growth. When fire engulfed much of the city's core — comprised of primarily wooden structures — in 1886, City Council decided sandstone would be used as a safer building material and the "Sandstone City" was born.

Since then, few of those great sandstone structures and other historical Calgary buildings remain as space was made for towering skyscrapers. These days, the surviving architectural relics dotted throughout the city signal the culture and history of days gone by. How much do you know?

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