Fort Cal­gary, a North­west Mount­ed Police (NWMP, now RCMP) fort was built in 1875 at the con­flu­ence of the Bow and Elbow rivers (near mod­ern Ingle­wood). It became the nucle­us around which Cal­gary grew. The orig­i­nal fort was destroyed decades ago. Today’s Fort Cal­gary is a muse­um and his­toric site focus­ing on the his­to­ry of the city and of the RCMP.