Formed as Burns and Dutton, brilliant engineer Jack Simpson became president in 1962. He died in 1984 and son John took over CANA during some rather turbulent economic times in this province. He continues as chair but in 2018 decided to step away from the day-to-day running of the companies to devote more time to ranching, and handed the reins to son Luke.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
The fourth is Shepard Development, currently with an application in for a permit to build Phase 2 of its Sheppard Station, a 40-acre office park at 130In the northeast, Jackson Port is its 160-acre development where only a few of the industrial lots remain to be sold.Article content Eighty per cent of the buildings at the University of Calgary are credited to CANA, including the Taylor Family Digital Library, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning and, of course, the Jack Simpson Gymnasium. Much has also been completed at Mount Royal University, where the centre for performing arts also bears the Taylor family name.
Other sports facilities include McMahon Stadium, the Saddledome and Round-Up Centre , and the Markin MacPhail Athletic and Ice Complex and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame at WinSport.