The Desk

The Atlas Westgate went in at the western edge of the city in 1957 and the city kept going west without it. What stayed is the layout that came with ...

The Atlas Every street here starts with the same letter. Ulster, Utah, Uxbridge, Urquhart, Unwin, Uxborough. You notice it on day one, you stop ...

The Atlas You find out what Spruce Cliff is on the first walk down off the shelf. The streets up top are named for trees and hold apartment blocks ...

The Atlas You learn Rosscarrock from the platform. The west line surfaces at 33 Street and the community reorganises around that one fact, the core ...

The Atlas You will time your year here by the water. In May the reservoir opens and the racing shells go out at six in the morning, thin and ...

The Atlas Lincoln Park keeps a concert hall four minutes from your door and almost nobody outside the community knows it is there. You go once for ...

The Atlas The first January in Glenbrook explains the community association to you. Other neighbourhoods flood a rink and hope for a cold month. ...

The Atlas Glamorgan runs on one strip mall, and by the second month you will have opinions about it. The bakery closes Sunday and Monday, which you ...

The Atlas Garrison Green gives itself away on the mail. Don Ethell Boulevard. Lewis MacKenzie Place. You address an envelope a few times and then one ...

The Atlas Rutland Park is the kind of place you drive past for years before you drive into. Four fast roads hold it, the interior holds about seven ...

The Atlas You will learn Currie by its street signs before you learn it by its blocks. Flanders. Normandy. Dieppe. Battleford. The names are a ...

The Atlas Windsor Park hands you its scale inside a week. Eight avenues deep, a golf course closing the west, Macleod Trail carrying the east, and ...

The Atlas St. Andrews Heights has a period in its name because a sign had to be ordered. The community was still arguing about the punctuation when ...

The Atlas Shaganappi has been called that since before the city was. The word is Cree, it means rawhide lacing, and it was in use on this ground in ...

The Atlas Scarboro/Sunalta West is the half of Scarboro that ended up on the wrong side of Crowchild Trail. The road cut the old community in two and ...

The Atlas Rosemont names its streets after itself, over and over. Rosehill, Roselawn, Rosetree, Rosevale, Roseview, Rosery, Roselake, Rosewood. Every ...

The Atlas Point McKay finished building in 1987 and never started again. Every one of its 848 homes carries a construction date in the seventies or ...