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- 1 2 Klassen, Henry Cornelius. Eye on the future: business people in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900. Calgary: Univ. Alberta Press, 2002." Ch 2 is about the Conrads & I. G. Baker & Co., but ch. 1 & 3 are also pertinent.
- ↑ "HBC Heritage - Our History - Places: Calgary". Hudson's Bay Company . Retrieved 2009-05-17.
In 1891 the Company bought out the Canadian assets of I.G. Baker
- ↑ Foran, Max (1982). Calgary, Canada's frontier metropolis : an illustrated history. Windsor Publications. p. 40. ISBN 0-89781-055-4.