Mountain Guide

“I go out on the food deliveries for this free initiative and the things you see – I guarantee you that there are many many people in Canmore that do not have a clue about the level of hardship and poverty that exists on a daily basis in this town."

In the second week of Birds of the Bow Valley, Michael W. Potter looks at the Boreal Owl – one of the smaller and usually elusive owls in western Canada.

“There are a lot of Filipinos in the Bow Valley but this is a great way for us to be seen and for people to learn a little more about us.”

In this summer series, birds that are found in the region of the Bow Valley will be profiled each week.

“To be able to look down at all those trails, lakeshores, peaks, all those places that you are familiar with – you get these memories. That is what I hope people will take away from this book even if they are not the one flying in the helicopter.”

A look at what's happening around the Bow Valley.

Six local bands and musicians are gunning for top spot in this year's SearchLight competition.

“It’s basically a conglomeration of years of random riffs, song ideas and melodies that have just been hanging around and I decided it was finally time to do something with it all.”

“It’s the kind of book that kids will grow up with."

Banff's Catharine Robb Whyte wrote to her mother Edith living in Boston every few days from the time she arrived in the tourist town in 1929 after marrying Peter Whyte up until 1962 when her mother passed away. Thanks to funding from Library Archives Canada, all 11,983 letters are available online after being scanned and digitized as part of the Whyte Museum's archives.