Live in MacEwan Glen
A 1978 community named for Grant MacEwan, and the only one attached directly to Nose Hill Park.
MacEwan Glen was established in 1978 and named for John Walter Grant MacEwan, Calgary mayor and lieutenant-governor of Alberta. It is small and settled: 1.4 km², 4,740 residents in 1,740 private households at the 2021 census, 86% of them owners, on a median household income of $104,000 for 2020. Ninety per cent of the occupied stock went up between 1981 and 2000 and nothing has been added since 2010. Its southern boundary is Nose Hill Park, and Wikipedia calls it the only community directly attached to the park.
Grant MacEwan's community, on the park's north edge
Bounded north by Country Hills Boulevard, east by 14 Street NW, west by Shaganappi Trail and south by Nose Hill Park. Ward 3.
MacEwan Glen was established in 1978 and named for John Walter Grant MacEwan, Calgary mayor and lieutenant-governor of Alberta. Development finished in the late 1990s: 56% of the occupied stock dates from 1981 to 1990 and 34% from 1991 to 2000, and nothing has been added since 2010.
It is small and settled: 4,740 residents in 1,740 private households at the 2021 census on 1.4 km², 86% of households owning against 69% citywide, 85% of dwellings single-detached and no apartments at all. Median household income was $104,000 in 2020, and only 12% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, against 23% across Calgary.
The real estate argument is one line: the southern boundary is Nose Hill Park, 11.27 km² of rough fescue grassland and the fourth-largest urban park in Canada. Wikipedia calls MacEwan Glen the sole community directly attached to it. Everything else is standard settled-north: Vivo and two retail districts within eight minutes, downtown a 14 Street run, and 85% of employed residents driving to work.
- 90% of the occupied stock went up between 1981 and 2000: verify plumbing era by era
- Park-edge lots carry wildlife reality. Deer and coyotes are neighbours
- Thin transit: 4% of employed residents took transit to work, against 9% citywide
- Small community means thin listing inventory, and nothing has been built here since 2010
How MacEwan Glen got here
- 1978Development begins on MacEwan Glen, named for John Walter Grant MacEwan, Calgary mayor and lieutenant-governor of Alberta.
- 1980Nose Hill Park is created on the community's southern side, 11.27 km² of grassland and the fourth-largest urban park in Canada.
- 1990sDevelopment completes late in the decade. 56% of the occupied stock dates from 1981 to 1990 and 34% from 1991 to 2000.
- 2019The City's last civic census counts 4,754 residents and 1,786 dwellings, 1,749 of them occupied and 1,511 owner-occupied.
- 2021The federal census records 4,740 residents in 1,740 private households, 86% of them owner households, with a median household income of $104,000 for 2020.
The park as your property line
The community's southern edge is Nose Hill: 11.27 km² of rough fescue grassland, created in 1980, the fourth-largest urban park in Canada and ringed by twelve communities. A rehabilitation plan proposed 60 km of maintained trails across it, 52 km of dirt and gravel and 8 km of asphalt. The internal glen and greens carry the small everyday.
What the map does not show: the park-backing streets are the product here; everything else in the community is a shorter walk to the same park.
Elsewhere in Calgary, not MacEwan Glen
10 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–10 of 10 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are estimated from the centre of the community to each destination using Calgary's road grid, and are rounded to honest ranges rather than presented as precise figures. Small community, short list: the park does the heavy lifting.
Every gym within reach
Vivo close, Thornhill next, the park free. Confirm hours before you count on anything.
- Vivo, at 11950 Country Village Link NE, carries pools, ice arenas, gymnasiums, a climbing wall and a library branch
- Thornhill Aquatic & Recreation Centre, at 6715 Centre St. N.W., is the alternative city pool
- Nose Hill is the standing free option, on the community's own southern side
- The community association's own site would not load for this guide, so what it runs is unconfirmed
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Vivo for Healthier Generations open | Leisure and lane pools, hot tub, sauna, ice arenas, gymnasiums, a climbing wall, three fitness studios and a Calgary Public Library branch, at 11950 Country Village Link NE. | 8–12 min |
| Thornhill Aquatic & Recreation Centre open | City-run pool, dive tank, hot tub, steam room, weights and cardio and a fitness studio at 6715 Centre St. N.W. | 9–13 min |
| Nose Hill from your own edge open | Free option: 11.27 km² of grassland along the community's southern side, with about 60 km of maintained trails and pathways planned across the park. | 1–2 min |
| Community association programs open | The association's own site would not load for this guide and the Federation of Calgary Communities has no page for MacEwan Glen, so what it runs is not something this page can state. | 1–3 min |
The park replaces the treadmill here: the paid options are for water and winter.
Elementary close, ladder beyond
Wikipedia names four schools for MacEwan Glen: Simons Valley Elementary and Monsignor N. Anderson Elementary, and Sir John A. Macdonald School and Queen Elizabeth High School beyond. Nothing this guide could open prints an attendance area for any of them.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Simons Valley School | Calgary Board of Education | Public elementary named by Wikipedia among the schools serving MacEwan Glen. |
| Monsignor N. Anderson School | Calgary Catholic School District | Catholic elementary named by Wikipedia. The district's site refuses automated clients, so nothing here was read from the board. |
| Sir John A. Macdonald School | Calgary Board of Education | Named by Wikipedia among the schools serving the community. Nothing this guide opened prints its attendance area. |
| Queen Elizabeth High School | Calgary Board of Education | Named by Wikipedia among the schools serving the community. Confirm the designation for a specific address. |
Alberta funds Catholic education the same way it funds public education, so there is no tuition for a resident student at either board. Confirm the designation for a specific address before you buy: the Calgary Catholic School District's site refuses automated clients, so nothing on that side was read from the board.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The park's northern slopes hold the best tobogganing in the quadrant
- Priority snow routes keep the main roads clear
- Indoor recreation carries the season
- Long dark evenings, but rarely for weeks at a stretch
- Ski traffic west on the Trans-Canada peaks on Friday and Sunday
- Coldest snaps usually break with a chinook
- Noticeably longer light by month end
- Indoor pools at their busiest
- Melt and refreeze on the side streets: ice cleats weather
- Pathways reopen as the snow goes
- First patio afternoons on the warm chinook days
- Street sweeping begins late in the month
- Last hard frosts: planting waits for the May long weekend
- Pathway and park season opens properly
- Garden centres open across the quadrant
- Migratory birds return to the parks
- Long evenings: sunset past 9pm by month end
- Lilacs and crabapples through the older streets
- Field sport seasons start on the community greens
- First genuinely warm stretches
- Peak daylight at the solstice: over 16 hours
- School year ends and the parks fill
- Evening thunderstorms begin building over the foothills
- Farmers' markets open for the season
- Calgary Stampede: ten days across the city
- Hottest month, with cool nights at this elevation
- Evening thunderstorms roll off the foothills
- Canada Day events in the parks
- Folk Festival on Prince's Island mid-month
- Kananaskis and Banff at their best, straight west
- Quietest weeks before school returns
- Smoke from western wildfires is possible
- School year restarts and morning traffic thickens
- First frost typically arrives late in the month
- Poplar and aspen colour begins
- Evenings shorten fast
- The rough fescue grassland turns gold along the community's own boundary
- First snow is normal, and normally melts
- Snow tires go on across the quadrant
- Nose Hill's 11 km² of grassland is at its best colour of the year
- Ski season opens west on the Trans-Canada
- Dark by 5pm
- Freeze sets in for good
- Holiday retail season begins
- Chinook arches over the western skyline on clear days
- Holiday lights through the community streets
- Outdoor rinks open when the freeze holds, though this guide could not confirm what the association runs
- Quiet, short days between the holidays
30 more photographs of Calgary and the region
Drawn from the site's shared, freely licensed Calgary photo library, not photographs of MacEwan Glen itself. Filter by category.
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Honesty note. This page uses only the general Calgary, seasonal, Alberta-wildlife and day-trip photography from the site's shared library. Nothing here is presented as a photograph of MacEwan Glen itself.