Immigration: Immigrant Population

Bridgeland Dept: Although within sight of Calgary across the Bow River, the area remained quite separate from the bustling new city during the three decades before the city's annexation of Bridgeland in 1907 and Riverside in 1910, according to Calgary Herald. Russian-German immigrants arrived during Calgary's first population boom in the 1880s, causing Riverside to became known as Germantown and formerly a "working man's" district, Bridgeland-Riverside was historically one of the first areas in Calgary to house a predominantly immigrant population intent upon establishing a new life in an often challenging land. Riverside, on the banks of the Bow River, was home to native encampments long before the 19th century. As reported in the news.
@t population boom, german immigrants