‘We’ve Done the Impossible’: Calgarians Get Back Personalized 1988 Olympic Bricks

Hundreds of Calgarians lined up at the Stampede grounds in Calgary on Jan. 3, 2025 to retrieve personalized bricks paid for to support the 1988 Winter Olympics. The Canadian Press/Bill Graveland

Some people say it with flowers. Some with an engagement ring.

For Keith Beggs, it was a brick surrounded by mortar and placed at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza that showed his true intent for the woman who would become his wife.