Canada followed in 1885, founding its first national park in the Rocky Mountains, now Banff National Park.
Spend your day hiking, mountain biking, riding the Banff Gondola or soaking in the Banff Upper Hot Springs.
Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan, SNP) asked when changes in the regulation of the white-fish industry will be announced.
That's what you expect the bellhop to say as he points you toward the labyrinthine hallways of the Banff Springs Hotel .
Some 530 miles east of Vancouver, we slow past the craggy, Tolkienesque bulk of Castle Mountain and come to rest in Banff.
Opened in 1890, just two years after the Banff Springs Hotel and just 50km to the northwest, Chateau Lake Louise occupies an equally scenic spot.
The Banff Festival, which started in 1975, is the biggest film and book festival devoted to the outdoors and those who play in it.
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Scores of films, readings and panel discussions fill a week at the Banff Centre, an arts institution in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
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Opened in 1890, just two years after the Banff Springs Hotel and just 50km to the southeast, Chateau Lake Louise occupies an equally scenic spot.
About an hour-and-a-half from the Calgary airport, Banff National Park, arguably one of the most beautiful places in the world, merits at least a daytrip.
In a new twist, about a fifth of the works are being unveiled in places like Kabul, Afghanistan, and Banff, Canada, said artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
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Mr Salmond, who is Banff and Buchan MP, said Westminster should follow the example of the Scottish Parliament which no longer provides second homes for parliamentarians.
Today, he was at it again, brandishing a bottle of a concoction called macb - a low-calorie, fruit-flavoured spring water which emanates from his former constituency of Banff and Buchan.
Paul Sherrington, principal of Banff and Buchan College, said the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff at the institution had dropped from 237 to 220 over the past two years.
The son of a dairy farmer from outside Calgary, Mr. Locke has lived most of his life out of doors and has summited most of the peaks in the Banff area.
Banff lies an hour-and-a-half drive from the Calgary airport.
In his latest acquisition the 69-year-old Icahn is putting into play such Canadian landmarks as the Banff Springs hotel and Chateau Lake Louise, because he sees the luxury hotel firm as undervalued.
Marking its 125th birthday in 2013, the Scottish baronial-style Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Parkwas built to give travellers a taste of the wilderness without needing to sacrifice their afternoon tea.
It's the cue for effusive guide Fridjon Thorleifsson to introduce the surrounding Columbia Icefield, a 77-square-mile web of six silvery tentacles between Jasper and Banff, and the largest ice cap south of the Arctic Circle.
Wafted eastwards by strong winds, in 2002 the beastie made its debut in northern Alberta and further south in the national parks of Jasper, Banff and Kananaskis on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Mr Salmond, who is the MSP for Gordon and the MP for Banff and Buchan - both north east Scotland constituencies - said there would now be a full investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Bureau.
Dr. Castillo-Chavez is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Banff International Research Station and served as a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Council and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute Committee.
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Though the picturesque town of Banff and surrounding Banff National Park beckon with world-class skiing, mineral hot springs and countless other nature activities, it's tempting to stay put in the castle, so numerous and luxurious are its offerings.
Along with neighbouring Banff, Jasper is a Unesco World Heritage site, recognised for its beauty, animal and plant life, and staggering variety of landscapes, including glaciers, alpine meadows, steaming hot springs, cerulean lakes and some of the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains.
The Banff Venture Forum this year is going to allow some of the hot new Canadian start-ups present to a group of Canadian and US VCs including Panorama Capital, Azure Capital, Chevron Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, and NGEN Partners.
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But Fairmont is trying to lure visitors with a new "Cruisin' the Canadian Rockies" package, which kicks off in Banff, an hour-and-a-half drive from the Calgary airport, and includes two nights each at their three luxury Alberta resorts: the JPL, the historic Chateau Lake Louise and the Fairmont Banff Springs .
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