Death and Legacy
Sir James Lougheed died of pneumonia, aged 71, in the Ottawa Civic Hospital, and was buried in Calgary on 8 November 1925.
The village of Lougheed, Alberta, Mount Lougheed in the Rocky Mountains, and Lougheed Island in Nunavut are named after him.
The mansion that was built for him in 1891 as a senator has been restored and is now a Heritage Centre in the Beltline district of Calgary.
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“Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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