Fond Memories

Hounsfield Height Briar Hill Community is a joint communit of two very distinct, yet similar areas that came together to crate a diverse and stable inner-city district filled with a strong sense of community pride.

As one of the last remaining, almost exclude R-1 zoned districts in Calgary, we have worked hard to maintain the character and personality of a small close knit community. 

The following recollections and memories of the 50 plus years of history by the residents, for the residents, highlights the care and hard work that has gone into building a vibrant, vital and growing community.

First Settlers	Imagine, as you stand on the bluff, known by local school children as ‘Grasshopper Hill, looking south east towards the skyscrapers that mark Calgary’s downtown, how the valley looked 145 years ago.  There were no trees, except for  the willows along the river, no roads or bridges;  just endless prairie, grasslands spreading  from the eastern horizon to the foothills to the west.  Continue .. reading
1940's	Anecdotal stories of growing up in Hounsfield Heights   The Murray MacLean Family by Hazel MacLean. 1320 15th Street N.W., ... Continue .. reading    The A G Nicholson Family by Hazel MacLean. The Nicholson family lived at 1116 16th St N.W. Bert (Nicky), Jean and young son David moved to Calgary at the end of World War II. Continue .. reading    Shooting Stars and Crocuses by Nila E Stringer ... Fourteenth Street was a very steep single dirt track and tough to navigate in the mud, for the old forties, two-wheel drive vehicles, the ice block truck and the horse-drawn milk wagon. Continue .. reading    Hounsfield Heights Remembered by Margaret Randall McCready. Continue .. reading    Past To Present And Beyond by Ted Dawson. I moved to Calgary on May 29th, 1948 to 2424 7 Ave NW. The area Hounsfield Heights - Briar Hill did not exist. It was all wild prairie used as grazing land. Continue reading
1950's	Anecdotal stories of growing up in Hounsfield Heights Briar Hill Our Recollection Of The Early Years In Briar Hill by Lloyd and Tillie Snow. We were transferred from Edmonton to Calgary in the fall of 1950 by Calgary Power Ltd. Continue .. reading    Fond Memories by Vivian Templeton. 1n 1950, Charlie and I came to Calgary from Edmonton, where he began a new job here. When we hunted for a house, Continue .. reading    School Days in Briar Hill by Dolores (Shackleton) Kauffman. On October 31st, 1952 our family moved into a brand-new house in Briar Hill. Continue .. reading      A Few Memories From The North End of 20th Street NW by Rick Green. In mid 1952, houses had just been completed on the east side of 20A St and were being occupied.  Continue reading    Fond Memories by Jean and Donald Brown. We first saw Briar Hill in 1953 ... Continue reading    Fond Memories by Jim and Jeanne Wong. We purchased our house in 1953 and have lived here for forty-eight years. In 1953, there were no sidewalks, no roads, and no streetlights  Continue .. reading    Fond Memories by Vella Kusenko. My husband and I purchased a lot in Briar Hill in 1953 for $400.Continue .. reading
News Clippings	Big Year Ahead In '56 For Briar Hill Group
We have stories up to the 1970s.	A note would encourage me to get them all posted sooner.