25 years too late for a sulfur spring bath – part 2

Barely a decade had passed after the establishment of the Confederation of Canada in 1867, before the European settlers began displacing the First Nations in the west. In 1877, the Canadian government and the First Nations signed Treaty Seven which …

25 years too late for a sulfur spring bath

The previous series of entries took a rather brief (though for some, perhaps too lengthy) look at the forces and processes that created the mountains and lakes of Banff National Park. Before I turn my focus to a different shaper …

Bing, Banff, Boom – part 3

In the previous post I noted that the Rocky Mountains rose up during the Laramide Orogeny. Thus, you might reasonably expect that the exposed rocks would be mostly from that period. That’s not quite the case and it’s due to …