This trade has been in our family for over a hundred and fifty years. Five generations of masons, starting with a great-great-grandfather who worked with hand tools only.
A&K is what the fifth generation built when it put down roots in Calgary in 1992. Three decades on, we supply and install natural stone, artificial stone, brick, block, and veneer for homes and commercial buildings across Southern Alberta.
Facades, fireplaces, retaining walls, chimneys, columns, terraces, garden walls, full envelopes, tucking, barging, and all kinds of stone and brick repairs.
The great-great-
grandfather.
Where it begins
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Hand tools only
The great-
grandfather.
Wall & façade
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The trade formalises
The grandfather.
Heritage masonry
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Restoration & new build
The father.
Residential & commercial
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The hand passes on
A&K Stone Masonry,
Calgary · since 1992
Three decades local
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The hand still sets stone
You don't learn to read stone in a weekend. You learn it from someone who learned it from someone. Five times over, our family has watched a wall outlast the mason who built it. It teaches you to build the next one with the same patience.
A workhorse for full façades and chimneys. Tight horizontal courses, mountain tone.
For interiors that want a calm, pale wall. Hearths, accent walls, full-height fireplaces.
The colour of the foothills. Used on heritage repointing and homes that want to belong to this landscape.
Pillars, plinths, commercial entry surrounds. The hardest material we work in. Cut to drawing.
Patios, terraces, and pathways. Each piece dry-laid before mortar to plan the joints.
Rounded, varied, irregular. Country properties, garden walls, retaining work that needs to look like it grew there.
Driveway aprons, courtyards, garden borders. Imported, sett-cut, set on a proper compacted base.
For commercial envelopes and spec homes. Cultured Stone, Eldorado, Boral. Same install standard as natural.
If you have a stone in mind that isn't on this page, bring it to us. We've laid most of them at one point or another.
Ask about a materialFour moves, every time. Nothing skipped, nothing improvised at the wall when it should have been settled at the table.
We visit the site, take real measurements, study the orientation, and read the surrounding stone. Neighbouring façades, nearby outcrops, what the mountain does at the back of the lot.
Quarry and supplier shortlists. Sample boards delivered to the site, viewed at the time of day the wall will most often be seen. Tone, texture, and cut chosen on site, not from a brochure.
For complex elevations and feature walls, we dry-fit the entire piece before mortar touches the back. Joints are planned, not discovered. Every visible face is chosen.
Setting, pointing, cleanup, and a final walk with the homeowner or general. We don't disappear after the last stone. We stand by the work and return for any concerns within the first season.