Mission, Calgary

{{other uses|Mission (disambiguation){{!}}Mission}}

{{Infobox settlement

| official_name = Mission

| other_name =

| settlement_type = Neighbourhood

| image_skyline = Rouleauville Square.jpg

| imagesize = 225px

| image_caption = Rouleauville Square in the Mission district

| pushpin_map = Canada Calgary

| pushpin_mapsize = 225

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Mission in Calgary

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Canada

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Alberta

| subdivision_type2 = City

| subdivision_name2 = Calgary

| subdivision_type3 = Quadrant

| subdivision_name3 = SW

| subdivision_type4 = Ward

| subdivision_name4 = 8

| government_footnotes = {{Calgary City Council|ref}}

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = {{Calgary City Council|mayor}}

| leader_title1 = Administrative body

| leader_name1 = Calgary City Council

| leader_title2 = Councillor

| leader_name2 = {{Calgary City Council|8}}

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 1900

| established_title2 = Annexed

| established_date2 = 1906

| area_magnitude =

| area_footnotes = {{Cite web | url= http://calgary.ca/PDA/LUPP/Documents/Publications/calgary-snapshots-2011.pdf | title= Calgary Snapshots 2011 | author= City of Calgary | access-date= 2012-05-02 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| area_total_km2 = 0.53

| population_as_of = 2006

| population_footnotes = {{Cite web| url= http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/mission.pdf| archive-url= https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20070809131925/http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/mission.pdf| url-status= dead| archive-date= 2007-08-09| title= Mission Community Statistics| author= City of Calgary| year= 2006| access-date= 2007-05-09}}

| population_total = 4433

| population_density_km2 = 8364.2

| population_blank1_title = Average Income

| population_blank1 = $37040

| timezone =

| utc_offset =

| coordinates = {{coord|51|01|55|N|114|04|12|W|region:CA-AB|display=inline,title}}

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 1050

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| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128180114/http://www.calgarycommunities.com/communities/cliffbungalow_mission.php Mission Community Association]

| footnotes =

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The Mission district is an inner city neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that originated as {{lang|fr|i=unset|Notre Dame de la Paix}}, a Catholic mission and was for a time the incorporated Village of Rouleauville. Mission is bordered by 4th Street SW with restaurants and shops, and it hosts the Lilac Festival in June.

It is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 8 councillor. The community has an area redevelopment plan in place.{{Cite web| url= http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/LUPP/Documents/Publications/mission-arp.pdf | title=Mission Area Redevelopment Plan| author=City of Calgary Planning| year=2009| access-date= 2011-12-01}}

History

After a temporary location {{convert|40|km|mi|abbr=on}} away (started in 1872), Oblate missionary Father Constantine Scollen, on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church, founded the permanent location in 1875. In 1883, Oblate missionary Father Albert Lacombe, returning after a ten-year absence, obtained two quarter sections of land for a "Mission district" to ensure a strong French-speaking Catholic community. Father Scollen, who had lived in the area since 1862 and who had witnessed Treaty Six with the Cree nations and Treaty Seven with the Blackfoot Confederacy, left for Edmonton and then the United States.

After obtaining the rest of the land that is now Mission, the area was incorporated on November 2, 1899, as the Village of Rouleauville, named after Charles Rouleau. The village was founded in what was then the District of Alberta in the North-West Territories.[http://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/historicCalgary/rouleauville.html Rouleauville at Glenbow Museum] - Information on the history of the French-speaking village. Despite Lacombe's desire to preserve the French language and culture, Rouleauville progressively lost its French character, becoming overwhelmingly English. In 1907 the village was annexed by Calgary. In the process all the French names of streets were replaced by Calgary's street numbering system.[http://www.abheritage.ca/stvincent-stpaul/eng/franco-alberta/rouleauville.htm Rouleauville at Alberta Heritage]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - Discusses Father Lacombe and the village

Mission is one of many Calgary neighbourhoods impacted by flood events. In 1929, the area was submerged when the Bow River overran its banks.Calgary Herald, June 3, 1929 The area was again impacted by floods in June 2013. An evacuation was ordered on June 20 for a minimum of 72 hours.{{cite news

| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary-braces-for-flooding-orders-communities-evacuated-1.1326127

| title = Calgary braces for flooding, orders communities evacuated

| publisher = CBC News

| date = 2013-06-20

| access-date = 2013-06-21}}

= Institutions =

In the latter part of his life, Lacombe helped found a number of Catholic schools throughout the West, including St. Mary's School in 1885, initially using a two-storey log cabin convent in Mission district (Rouleauville). It is now the oldest school still operating in Calgary (though in a newer building).

In 1889 St. Mary's Church was founded, and in 1912 it became St. Mary's Cathedral when it became the seat of the newly formed Diocese of Calgary.

Demographics

In the City of Calgary's 2012 municipal census, Mission had a population of {{nts|4325}} living in {{nts|3177}} dwellings--a 0.9% decrease from its 2011 population of {{nts|4363}}.{{cite web | url=http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks/Documents/Election-and-information-services/Census2012/Final%202012%20Census%20Results%20book.pdf | title=2012 Civic Census Results | publisher=City of Calgary | year=2012 | access-date=February 4, 2013}} With a land area of {{convert|0.5|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|4325|0.5|km2|sqmi}} in 2012.{{cite web | url=https://cityonline.calgary.ca/Pages/Product.aspx?category=PDCAdministrativeBoundaries&cat=CITYonlineDefault&id=PDC0-99999-99999-00005-P | title=Community Boundaries | publisher=City of Calgary | format=Esri shapefile | access-date=February 5, 2013}}

Residents in this community had a median household income of $37,040 in 2000, and there were 25% low income residents living in the neighbourhood.{{Cite web|url=http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/ward_8_profile.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20070809131535/http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/ward_8_profile.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-08-09 |title=Ward 8 Profile |author=City of Calgary |year=2004 |access-date=2007-05-09 }} As of 2000, 20.1% of the residents were immigrants.