If you wan­der amidst the glass-and-steel tow­ers that dom­i­nate down­town 卡尔加里, 艾伯塔, you’ll like­ly see some famil­iar names – at least if you’re famil­iar with major inter­na­tion­al oil com­pa­nies. 如壳牌公司, 这, 英国石油公司, 帝国石油公司, and Petro-Canada all have a sig­nif­i­cant pres­ence in Calgary, 和 ener­gy-based busi­ness­es account for a con­sid­er­able per­cent­age of Calgary’s jobs.

除了石油工业, Calgary has a devel­op­ing high-tech­nol­o­gy sec­tor, 报告的 largest num­ber of tech­nol­o­gy start-ups per capi­ta in Canada. 卡尔加里的建设和房地产行业的蓬勃发展, and the region is a Western trans­porta­tion hub. 卡尔加里 edge-of-the-prairies loca­tion means that agri­cul­tur­al busi­ness­es have long been based here, 而其 near-the-moun­tains set­ting has made it a start­ing point for 洛矶山旅游.

为什么要建立地幔在卡尔加里? A clerk in a down­town out­door-gear store put it this way: 从星期一到星期五, 卡尔加里努力工作. 但上周五后至中午十二时, 它的 时间玩.

那部戏，以及是否涉及标题为山滑雪, 雪板, 自行车, 或加息, 或留在城市，在公园慢跑或饮料满足您的好朋友, 卡尔加里次硬. 从臀部餐馆和露天茶座，与充满溜冰和骑自行车的滨河路径, Calgary bris­tles with ener­gy和它不都来出地面.

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