The Banff Centre is part of Alberta's post-secondary educational system, and offers programs in the performing and fine arts, and leadership training.

Alberta's first known outbreak occurred in 1940, infecting of forest in Banff.

The Banff Centre is part of Alberta's post-secondary educational system, and offers programs in the performing and fine arts, and leadership training.

Attractions in Banff include Upper Hot Springs, and a 27-hole golf course at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, and three ski resorts including Sunshine Village, Lake Louise Mountain Resort, and Mount Norquay ski resort.

Moraine Lake is a glacially-fed lake in Banff National Park, outside the Village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.

It ends with a junction with the A98 road between Portsoy and Banff.

While the Hudson's Bay Company shops appear mainly in flagship stores and its Banff, Alberta location, products from the Hudson's Bay Company Collection ( not including limited edition items ) are also available at other locations, most notably the Point Blanket.

Banff is a resort town and one of Canada's most popular tourist destinations, known for its mountainous surroundings and hot springs.

In the 2011 Census, the Town of Banff had a population of 7, 584 living in 2, 565 of its 2, 850 total dwellings, a 13. 2 % change from its 2006 population of 6, 700.

The population of the Town of Banff according to its 2011 municipal census is 8, 244, a 5. 5 % decrease from its 2007 municipal census population of 8, 721.

* The Kicking Horse Pass, through which the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway was built ; from the eastern end of this pass is the gate of Banff National Park, with the famous touristic town of Banff as its centre.

The County of Banff, also known as Banffshire, was a local government county of Scotland with its own county council between 1890 and 1975.

Its proximity to Banff and Lake Louise further enhanced its popularity in the Rocky Mountain vacation picture.

It runs south from Banff on the north coast through Aberchirder, Huntly, Rhynie and Mossat before terminating at its junction with the A93 road at Dinnet.

The original Chateau was gradually built up at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century by the Canadian Pacific Railway and was thus " kin " to its predecessors, the Banff Springs Hotel, and the Château Frontenac.

James Robertson ’ s Topographical and military map of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine, London, 1822 seems geographically inaccurate in its relative positioning of Buckie, Nether Buckie and Freuchny but is significant in that the new label of Rotten Slough is given equal importance in terms of size of community with Buckie ; however in Thomson ’ s Atlas of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1832 Rotten Slough is fairly unimportant by size so one of these two reference publications is distorted, probably the former.

The name comes from the River Deveron, which has its mouth at Banff.

Fairmont is known in Canada for its famous historic hotels and resorts such as the Empress Hotel ( Victoria ) and Hotel Vancouver in British Columbia, the Palliser in Calgary, the Château Laurier in Ottawa, the Royal York in Toronto, Banff Springs in Alberta and Château Frontenac in Quebec.

A scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts led him to acting and in 1954 he joined the Stratford Festival in its second season.

A year later, CHCT moved its studios and offices from the transmitter site on Old Banff Coach Road, to a renovated badminton club / sea cadet drill hall on 955 Rideau Road S. W.

Skiing began in Banff in the 1890s and received its main impetus with the winter carnival in 1916.

Variety said, " The competition between scenic splendors of the Jasper and Banff National Parks and entertainment values finds the former finishing slightly ahead on merit, although there's enough rugged action and suspense moments to get the production through its footage.

The site was also chosen for its proximity to the Knock Station on the Banff branch line of the Great North of Scotland Railway ( GNSR ) between Aberdeen and Elgin.

In 2008, its most expensive television production Lobo, received the Banff World Media Festival for best telenovela program.

In 1947 the centre moved from the town of Banff to its present location on Tunnel Mountain in Banff National Park.

The Bull made Aberdeen one of the four suffragan sees of the Archbishopric of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and defined as its territory " the counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, Banff, Elgin or Moray, Nairn, Ross ( except Lewis in the Hebrides ), Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and that portion of Inverness which lies to the north of a straight line drawn from the most northerly point of Loch Luing to the eastern boundary of the said county of Inverness, where the counties of Aberdeen and Banff join.

Transferring operations to Aberdeenshire in late 1307, he threatened Banff before falling seriously ill, probably owing to the hardships of the lengthy campaign.

Following her retirement from competitive racing in 1959, Wheeler, along with Réal Charette, was a ski instructor in a film made at the Banff ski resort that won the American Library Association's award as the best educational sports film of 1960.

" Immediate reaction was mixed ; many Banff residents approved, but a telegram sent to King in the name of " members of the ski clubs and climbing clubs of the Rocky Mountains " protested the " inappropriate name of Eisenhower Peak ".

Renner grew up at remote Mount Assiniboine Lodge, the oldest backcountry ski lodge in the Canadian Rockies, located southwest of Banff and Canmore, Alberta, just across the British Columbia provincial border.

Low-flow seeps, however ( e. g. French Reality, Banff ; Moonlight / Snowline, Kananaskis ), often form early in the season ( September – November ) when the flow is good from latent summer heat, and then slow down or even stop with the deepening winter frost ; subsequent ablation ( and destruction by climbing ) of the ice often makes for thinner and brittler ice with time.

The season ended on a high note when the club won the Highland League Cup, beating Cove Rangers 2-0 at Banff.

After a year working in Banff, Alberta, Frank returned home to play for the Ottawa Senators for the 1921 – 22 season, where he would play with his brother George.

This region has several clusters of national parks including Mount Revelstoke National Park, Glacier National Park ( Canada ), Yoho National Park, and Kootenay National Park on the British Columbia side, and Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, and Glacier National Park ( U. S .) on the Alberta and Montana sides.

The film went on to win the prestigious Rockie Award for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival ( 2002 ) and the Coup de Coeur at the International Sunnyside of the Doc Marseille ( 2002 ).

Yoho NP is bordered by Kootenay National Park on the southern side and Banff National Park on the eastern side in Alberta.

The Bow River flows through the Town of Banff, with the Bow Falls located on the outskirts of town.

Outlets of Wapta Icefield on the Banff side of the continental divide include Peyto, Bow, and Vulture Glaciers.

Located on the eastern side of the Continental Divide, Banff National Park receives of precipitation annually.

of snow falls on average each winter in the Banff townsite, while falls in Lake Louise.

Approximately 5 million people pass through Banff annually on the Trans-Canada Highway without stopping.

The introduction of elk to Banff, combined with controls on coyote and wolves by Parks Canada beginning in the 1930s, has caused imbalance of the ecosystem.

With the cap on growth in the Town of Banff, Canmore, located just outside the Banff boundary, has been growing rapidly to serve increasing demands of tourists.

* An article on Banff National Park from The Canadian Encyclopedia

In 1983 Canada nominated Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks for inclusion on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

He has also given readings on CBC Radio and various other media as well as public performances funded by private organizations, universities, Harbourfront, Vancouver International Writers Festival, Saltwater Festival, Sechelt Writers ’ Festival, Wordfest: Banff Calgary International Writers Festival, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, National Book Festival, and the Canada Council.

Also in 2002, he served on the faculty of the May Writers ’ Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Assiniboine lies on the border between Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, in British Columbia, and Banff National Park, in Alberta.

In 1976, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature ( IAU / WGPSN ) officially adopted the name Banff for a crater on Mars, after the town in Alberta.

Banff experiences a subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfc ) that borders on a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb ).

Elected to the Scottish Parliament on 7 June 2001 he followed Alex Salmond, after his resignation, as member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) for Banff and Buchan.

The U. S. concept of national parks soon caught on in Canada, which created Banff National Park in the 1880s, at the same time as the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway was being built.

* July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.

* Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel