Editor:
How exciting. The imagined ecotransit hub proposed for Banff’s railway lands by Liricon Capital Ltd. will include the wohengitha amphitheater, a row of wooden bleachers set aside for storytelling.
Of course, as Canadian Pacific Kansas City Rail presently schedules an average of 20 freight trains a day that pass by the property – all of which are required by federal law to sound the locomotive’s whistle – the gentle ambiance usually associated with storytelling will be sorely lacking.
Perhaps a new tradition of indigenous “story yelling” will organically form on the 60-something days in a year when it will be warm enough to sit outside – or when the wind isn’t whistling down from Mt. Inglismaldie.
As a born and raised former resident of Banff, I believe Liricon’s railway lands proposal is entirely on the wrong side of the tracks, and that the company’s cynical appropriation of language belonging to the Stoney Nakoda First Nation should be removed from this proposal.
Max Wilkie,
North Vancouver
