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May 6, 2023
10:00 am - 11:30 am
About this Walk
A Literary Walk of Elbow Park
Over the decades, writers have called Elbow Park home. Join local author Shaun Hunter for an engaging walk through Calgary’s little-known literary past. We’ll meet a few of the writers who lived here in the first decades of the 1900s and get a glimpse of the fascinating fabric of Calgary’s early literary world.
Walk Begins at Elbow Park School
Quadrant: SW
Walk Duration: 1.5 hour(s)
Areas of Interest: History
Accessibility: Will Use Speakers / Voice Amplification
Led By: Shaun Hunter
Inner City: No
Meeting Location: Elbow Park School
About the Walk Team
Jane’s Walks wouldn’t exist without the help of our dedicated team of volunteers.
Walk Leader(s): Shaun Hunter
Shaun Hunter is the author of Calgary through the Eyes of Writers, a literary tour of the city from its frontier beginnings to contemporary times. During her term as Historian in Residence at the Calgary Public Library in 2020, she created a digital literary map of Calgary featuring over 500 sites. Earlier this year, she launched “City of Romance,” a map of the city’s 1920s literary world for the U of C’s Calgary Atlas Project. Shaun shares her passion for Calgary’s storied landscape on guided walks, talks, and on her website www.shaunhunter.ca.
