Calgary is about 9500 miles from Jerusalem. That would be quite a walk (challenging too, considering the big ocean in between).
The location of "calvary" is unknown, but you can give it an educated guess:
The "old city" of Jerusalem is still enclosed in the remnants of the Turkish walls built on top of the older walls around Mt. Zion and Mt. Moriah. The whole area is roughly a square shape enclosing about 1/4 sq mile (perhaps 3000 ft n/s by 2500 feet e/w). The temple mount is on the easternmost wall (inside it's own set of walls) and takes up about 20% of the area inside the city walls; the praetorium was against the northern wall of the temple mount.
In the center of the city, there's a valley running north to south, and in Roman times there was a bridge built over it connecting the temple mount with the Damascas Gate. This is the likely route Jesus would have taken, exiting on the west side of the city and heading around outside the northern wall of the city, a walk of a little more than half the width of the city plus the distance from there to the site of the crucifixion, whatever that was. (The cite of the crucifixion would not have been very far.)
The best details of the events are in Luke and John, but I don't think you'll get any kind of answer there.
[This message was edited by mahal on 03-14-03 at 01:24 AM.]
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