Snow-covered piles of engraved bricks are shown in Calgary's Olympic Plaza on Thursday, January 2, 2025. About one-third of bricks requested to be returned to their owners are unsalvageable, the ...

CALGARY - Valerie Salkeld remembers her then-boyfriend picking her up after work one cold day in January 1990 and heading over to Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary to watch people skating.

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The families of Ralph Klein and Rod Love were given their Olympic Plaza bricks during a special presentation at Calgary’s Old City Hall on Wednesday. Mayor Jyoti Gondek called it an “absolute ...

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The city's parks director said the brick-return program has proven to be a massive undertaking. "There were about 33,000 bricks with names on them in the plaza. We had requests for about 8,000 of ...

Some with an engagement ring. For Keith Beggs, it was a brick surrounded by mortar and placed at Calgary's Olympic Plaza that showed his true intent for the woman who would become his wife.

There's no guarantee that those who registered for the Olympic Plaza brick retrieval program will get their inscribed mementos back — but that didn't stop more 5,105 people from trying anyway.

More than 5,000 engraved bricks have been removed from Olympic Plaza, ready to be returned to thousands of Calgarians as work begins on a major expansion of Arts Commons and redevelopment of the aging ...