Calgary General Hospital Demolition

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Uploaded by on Apr 5, 2007

Recorded Video of the Calgary General Hospital being imploded in 1998.

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  • Got any more CFCN footage from the late-90's?

  • @RetroCalgary I do not... This was a few of the recording i have left back in the day.

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  • i saw this from the calgary tower that day and felt the thud from the explosives

    then i walked the perimeter

    my dad teases my that i was born under a cabbage leaf but i was born in that hospital

  • The community it was in is called Renfrew. They have buit condos on that site. Sad because the city has grown to well over a million people and we need more hospitals here.

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  • Nice to see this video. I drilled 50% of the holes for the Dynamite. I don't quite rember but i think it was 9 buildings simultaneously.

  • Seems silly to demolish a well located hospital. The people responsible should have thought 5 years in advance.

  • Sniff...that is where I was born back in 64......

  • After the Calgary General Hopital was demolished, the City of Calgary created Foothills Hospital over the late-90's

  • @bergsteinlife Actually, It was closed because it had old plumbing, electrical wiring and other shit that would have cost more to remodel than to rebuild.

  • I saw this in person as a child. It is what inspired my love for explosives, and likely led to me enlisting in the Canadian Forces as a Combat Engineer.

  • I was born in that hospital, and was there with my wife and son to watch it go down. Its still odd to drive through there now with a park and some condos in it's place. Did they sell off the land, that was prime space right off of a major road.

  • you guys closed the largest hospital in the province because you guys couldnt afford to run in it in oil rich Alberta?

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