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Now a social hub for the community of Currie and the surrounding areas, it has been tastefully renovated to feature The Inn on Officers’ Garden, a classy boutique hotel.
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On the second floor are 12 standard rooms plus the larger QEII Royal Suite, so named because Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, slept there during their 1951 visit to Calgary.
The stairs up to the floor are lined with reproductions of pages of the Calgary Herald published to honour the visit.
CALGARY Developers were challenged with building a community on an old army base and keeping as many of the historic trees, many of which were planted when the base was built in the 1930s, as possible. Canada Land Company did just that. The trees are something people value and rather than removing that we wanted to incorporate it and develop and make a positive attribute in the community, said Kelvin Whalen, senior director of real estate for Canada Lands Company. In honour of Earth Day April 22, the community will launch the ‘Currie Tree & Treasure Hunt’ to help guide the exploration of some of Calgary’s oldest and largest trees.