CALENDAR 



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 TABLE OF DAYS 



CALGARY 



year, the Mohammedan new year constantly 

 retrocedes through the seasons. For example, in 

 1914 the new year fell on the date correspond- 

 ing to November 19 in the Gregorian calendar, 

 in 1915 on November 8. In the course of 

 thirty-two and one-half years the Moham- 

 medan new year completes its backward course 

 through the seasons. The Mohammedan cal- 

 endar also divides the years into cycles of 

 thirty years each. Of each cycle nineteen are 

 regular years of 354 days, and eleven years 

 have an extra day. This method of compu- 

 tation is nearly as accurate as the Gregorian 

 calendar. The Mohammedan calendar, based 

 on the periods of the moon, has an error of 

 one day in about 2,400 years; the Gregorian 

 calendar, based on the revolutions of the earth 

 around the sun, has an error of one day in 3,330 

 years. 



Perpetual Calendar. A perpetual calendar is 

 one which shows the day of the week for any 

 date. In the simple form above, the letters 

 after each year refer to the table of months, 

 while the figures in the table of months refer 

 to the table of days. For example, to find 

 on what day of the week December 25, 1900, 

 fell, look in the table of years for 1900. The 



letter g is attached. Then look for g in the 

 table of months; in the parallel line, and under 

 December, is the number 6. The twenty-fifth 

 day in column 6 of the table of days is Tues- 

 day. Christmas, 1900, fell on Tuesday. W.F.Z. 



CALGARY, kal'gari, the largest city in the 

 province of Alberta and the largest city in 

 Canada between Winnipeg and Vancouver. In 

 1891 Calgary was a community of 3,800 people, 

 and ten years later the population was only 

 4,800. The town was prosperous, but had as 

 yet given little sign of future greatness. Since 

 1901, however, it has grown from a frontier 

 town to a great manufacturing and trading city. 

 In 1911 it was the home of 43,704 people, a 

 total which made it the tenth city in size 

 in ,the Dominion. By 1916 the population had 

 increased to 56,302, making it the eighth city 

 in the Dominion. 



Ideal Location. The reason for this tre- 

 mendous growth is Calgary's location, which 

 is ideal both for manufacturing and for distri- 

 bution of products. The city is nearly midway 

 between Winnipeg and the Pacific coast, being 

 811 miles east of Victoria, B. C., and 860 miles 

 west of Winnipeg. It is 194 miles south of 

 Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, 480 miles 



