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Historic Calgary Week events not to miss this weekend

Article content DeBoni also highlighted a presentation by Sarah Meilleur, CEO of the Calgary Public Library, that will journey through transformative moments in the library's 113-year history. Article content 'It's grown from a single library in 1912 to 22 libraries today, and its one of the most active ones in North America for the size of the city we're in,' DeBoni said. 'It's been a very big success story.' Article content Growth Spurts: Five Historic Moments That Shaped Calgary Public Library takes place Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Central Library. Article content At 6:30 p.m. Friday evening, the Central Library is also hosting What's Under Calgary?, in which earth science educator and historian C.W. Gross digs into the Calgary area's history over the last 4.5 billion years. Article content Saturday Article content On Saturday at 9:30 a.m., the Central Library is hosting Alberta: A Radical New Interpretation, a presentation by writer, historian and educator Frits Pannekoek that explores Calgary's history through the lens of innovation. Article content Article content Prairie Place-Ancestors Collective Presents: Black History in the Prairies, a mini film festival that explores Black history in the Prairies, will follow at 11:30 a.m., also at the Central Library. Article content Over at the Memorial Park Library, Calgarians can check out Lost Calgary: Lessons from the City's Forgotten Architecture at 2 p.m. Article content 'It's about the city's lost architecture — buildings that were prominent buildings in the early days and got torn down for whatever reason during the heyday of our development — so there's some real stories there, too,' DeBoni said. Article content 'A fellow who's a graphic artist has taken an interest in signs that we call 'ghost signs' — they're on the sides of buildings and are almost gone,' DeBoni said. 'He's gone around and he's done some reproduction of some of these signs, to recreate the memory of them, to preserve them as miniatures.' Article content