BANFF , ALBERTA. CANADA 1883 was the year that the transcontinental railway reached the formidable Rocky Mountains. One day while three railway workers were hiking, they came upon some simmering natural hot springs bubbling from the base of Sulphur Mountain .The area was protected by the government and two years later became Canada's first national park, Rocky Mountain Park. Banff, town and park, are named for Banffshire, Scotland – the birthplace of two of the original Canadian Pacific Railway directors.

BANFF HIGH STREET

CASCADE MOUNTAIN

St Georges in the Pines Anglian Church

                    

                PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BANFF

THE ROCKY MOUNTANEER

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                                  ADMINISTRATION BUILDING & CASCADE GARDENS

AFTER TAKING A FEW SNAPS AROUND BANFF WE SET OFF BACK ON OUR LONG RETURN JOURNEY SOUTH,   THROUGH ALBERTA , B. COLUMBIA.

TO KALISPELL CHECKING OUT RADIUM SPRINGS  AND THE TOWN  CANAL FLATS

  THE RESULTS OF HUGE FOREST  FIRES COVERING THOUSANDS OF HECTACRES ARE EVERWHERE . HOWEVER THESE  FIRES ARE IMPORTANT IN THE  SUSTAINING OF THE FORESTS

A SMALL MUSEUM SHOWING A TYPICAL VILLAGE