Calgary is a modern and diverse city of 1.2M people nestled in the lush Bow River Basin in southern Alberta. Spilling forth from the Bow Glacier, the clear turquoise waters of the 365 mile Bow River provide world renown fresh-water fishing, water-craft sports and swimming to all who visit or live in this city beside the Rocky Mountains. As The Bow meanders one hour west through the Alberta Rockies, you encounter the mountain villages of Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise offering every possible alpine sport imaginable along with world-class restaurants, lavish spa hotels and shopping. For many people, Calgary also means ‘sunshine’ and ‘music’; home to the National Music Centre of Canada, several annual music festivals and the Calgary Stampede, you need only venture out into one of the many eclectic city boroughs to find musicians offering a variety of live tunes. Receiving an average of 2,400 hours of sunshine a year, the ‘sunniest city in Canada’ has the pride of reputation for also being one of the friendliest; it must be all that Vitamin D we locals soak in! Some globally influential Calgary credits include Ginger Beef, The Caesar cocktail, North American Polo and The Java computer programming language.