It was first published in 1883 as The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. The Calgary Herald, was first published on August 31, 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler. It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a hand press that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary.

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