Dale Hodges

John Dale Hodges (May 19, 1941 – December 31, 2023) was a Canadian municipal-level politician in Calgary, Alberta, who served as Calgary City Council Ward 1 Alderman for thirty years—from 1983 until his retirement in 2013. The east Bowmont Park was renamed the Dale Hodges Park in recognition of his many contributions to the city as "Calgary’s longest-serving member of council" including his role in protecting and creating parks such as east Bowmont Park, Nose Hill Park, and Baker Park and the establishment of the Enmax Legacy Parks Program. His family moved to Alberta when he was five. He lived in Calgary from 1952 and in northwest Calgary from 1975.

In 1983, when he was first elected, Ralph Klein was mayor. Over the next thirty years, Hodges "served alongside five mayors and 50 aldermen." One of the main focuses of the project was stormwater treatment before entering the Bow River.

Personal life and death Hodges lived in his Bowness home on the Bow River, which had been built in 1961, until the 2013 Alberta floods.

Hodges died at a hospice in Calgary on December 31, 2023, at the age of 82.