by Don Smith

Just before World War I, Calgary experienced its first real boom. The city's population grew from just over 4, 000 in l90l to more than 40,000 in l9ll. One private golf course no longer sufficed. In l9l2, several British immigrants, all avid golfers, founded a second club, Calgary St. Andrew’s, named after Scotland's most famous course. A contemporary newspaper described Calgary St. Andrew’s as, "lying on a plateau and tapering to a point. The course commands magnificent views with the city lying at its feet on the east and the Rockies towering along the sky line on the west".

The club operated for fifteen years. It hosted two provincial championships. But, it experienced serious financial difficulties in the mid-l920s and closed in l927. In the l930s and l940s a private individual ran a small golf operation on the old course but it folded by the mid-40s. Several years later the building of a suburb transformed the quarter-section. The new district, begun in l953, adopted the old name. Calgary St. Andrew's lives on, in the name of one of Calgary's most attractive districts, St. Andrew’s Heights.