endowed chair. English. Noun. endowed chair (plural endowed chairs) (chiefly US) An endowed faculty position which is supported by the annual payout from a privately funded endowment. The endowment may cover the faculty salary, research and travel stipends or other associated costs and continues in perpetuity. Retrieved from https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=endowed_chair&oldid=44864614
Calgary Population. The current population of the city of Calgary is estimated to be approximately 1,149,552, which is an increase of about 2.6% from the last record of the population. Calgary is the largest city in Alberta, the third-largest municipality and the fifth-largest metropolitan area in all of the country.
Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city had a population of 899,447 in the 2016 municipal census, is Alberta's second-largest city and Canada's fifth-largest municipality. This population represents 66 percent of the total 2015 population of 1,363,300 within the Edmonton census metropolitan area (CMA), Canada's fifth-largest CMA by population. Edmonton is the most northern North American city with a metropolitan population over one million.