Welcome to the official website of the Somerset Bridlewood Community Association! You may have noticed that there is an older SBCA website still floating around the Internet – we’re sorry about the confusion but we can’t currently remove it. This is the up-to-date site you want to visit to see what we’re all about and what we’re doing to help connect the residents of the communities of Somerset and Bridlewood! We hope you will join us!

UPCOMING EVENTS – CHECK OUR EVENTS PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS!

👉The Somerset Bridlewood Community Garden is having a plant sale! Don’t book anything else for Saturday, May 25 between 9 and 11 am because you’ll want to attend and pick up some new plants for bargain prices! 🫶

SOMERSET BRIDLEWOOD PARADE OF GARAGE SALES – JUNE – Date and details to be confirmed!

SOMERSET BRIDLEWOOD COMMUNITY CLEAN UP – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 – Details to be announced!

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Somerset & Bridlewood Communities

Somerset and Bridlewood are residential Communities in the Southwest quadrant of the city of Calgary, Alberta.

Both communities are located at the Southern edge of the City. North of Stoney Trail (Ring Road) and West of Macleod Trail; Somerset is located East of Bridlewood.

Somerset was established in 1995 and Bridlewood was established in 1998.

City of Calgary

Somerset – Bridlewood is represented by the Ward 13 councilor, Dan McLean.

The City of Calgary’s Community Profiles contain demographic and household information from the 2016 Census of Canada. The data was provided by Statistics Canada, accessed using the Community Data Program, and compiled by The City of Calgary.

These profiles were published in 2019.

Electoral District

Somerset and Bridlewood Communities are part of the Electoral District of Calgary – Shaw.

Province of Alberta

Alberta joined Confederation in 1905. The original Coat of Arms was assigned by Royal Warrant in 1907. It was revised in 1980 and again in 2008.

Adopted on June 1, 1968, the flag shows the provincial shield of Alberta on a blue background. In September 2013, the shield of the Coat of Arms was adopted as a separate official emblem known as the provincial shield. 

The Province of Alberta’s motto is Fortis et Liber. It means Strong and Free

Alberta’s interesting facts

  • In 1930, the Wild Rose was designated the floral emblem of Alberta.
  • Rough Fescue is Alberta’s grass emblem. Alberta has the largest area of rough fescue grassland in the world and is the only place in North America that hosts the plains, foothills and northern variations of rough fescue. 
  • On May 3, 1977, the Great Horned Owl was adopted as Alberta’s official bird after a provincewide children’s vote. The Great Horned Owl is a year-round resident of the province.
  • Commonly found in gravel pits throughout Alberta, petrified wood is the result of the deposit of microcrystalline quartz in the pores and cells of the fallen trees of the Cretaceous and Paleocene times, 60 – 90 million years ago. Petrified wood became Alberta’s official stone in 1977.
  • In the early 1900s, the Lodgepole Pine was primarily used to make railway ties. Today it plays a major role in Alberta’s forest industry and is manufactured into poles, posts, pulp, plywood, mine timbers and other products. It was adopted as the official tree of Alberta on May 30, 1984.
  • Alberta blue and gold are the official colours and were adopted in 1984. The blue represents the sky, and the gold/deep yellow represents the prairies.
  • The colours of the Alberta tartan represent the green of our forests, the gold of our wheat fields, the blue of our clear skies and sparkling lakes, the pink of our wild rose, and the black of our coal and petroleum. The tartan was designed by the Edmonton Rehabilitation Society for the Handicapped, now Goodwill Industries of Alberta. It was adopted as the official tartan of Alberta in 1961.
  • On August 18, 1989, the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep was designated the official mammal of Alberta. The Bighorn is a native Alberta mammal. Prehistoric remains have been found in most of the river valleys across Alberta, showing that some of the largest herds of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep once roamed the province. Today the bighorn is primarily found in the Rocky Mountain region.
  • Adopted as the official fish of Alberta on May 2, 1995, the bull trout is one of 8 species of trout found in the province’s glacial waters. To ensure Alberta’s population of bull trout never becomes endangered, there is a catch and release policy governing all bull trout fishing in the province.

Source: www.Alberta.ca

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