The Globe and Mail Cailynn Klingbeil Published December 28, 2020
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As the long-standing stories told about a downtown Calgary historic residence are reconsidered, a fascinating and more complicated history is emerging.
Caroline Loewen, curator at Lougheed House, says she’s started thinking about the grand sandstone mansion as having been the home of a Métis household, given that the first resident, Lady Isabella Lougheed, was Métis.
New complexities have arisen, Ms. Loewen says, considering Lady Lougheed’s husband, James Lougheed, was a Conservative senator who pursued policies discriminatory to Métis people.
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