Along The Way
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From The Front Door
Recently while we were visiting friends in Canmore AB, their home overlooking the Three Sisters seen in my photo, I was relating the fact that 45 years ago we had friends who lived on the south side of the valley near the slopes of the Three Sisters that we used to visit.
At the time the Canmore mines were close to being shut down,(shut down for good in 1979) and our friends Jo (Josephine) & Charlie lived in a house that belonged to the Canmore Mining Company, Charlie being an electrician at the mine. The views from the front door of their house looking north across the valley with Mount Lady Macdonald in the distance was to die for.
Funny thing was that Canmore being a mining town had a population of about 2000 at the time, and you could have bought a house in the town for basically nothing once the mine shut down, go figure.
Just so you know..... In 1883, Albert Rogers named these mountains the Three Nuns after a storm left a heavy veil of snow on the northern face of all three peaks. They were renamed the Three Sisters in 1886 by George Dawson and they are referred to individually as Big Sister, Middle Sister and Little Sister.
The Three Sisters are located in the front ranges of the Rockies, in an area known as Kananaskis Country with Canmore AB being in close proximity.
