Yoho, named for a Cree word expressing awe, is a park of rock walls, waterfalls and glacial lakes. It’s a park with snow-topped mountain peaks, roaring rivers and silent forests. It’s a park whose history is bound up with a railroad: spiral tunnels inside mountains and stories of runaway trains.
Established in 1886, the park currently [...]
Two Canadian resorts — Bathurst Inlet Lodge in Nunavut and Banff Park Lodge in Banff, Alta. — are listed in a new guide of the world’s top eco-friendly hotels.
Bathurst Inlet Lodge, located 580 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife and 1,830 kilometres west of Iqaluit in western Nunavut, is housed in “a motley collection of historic buildings” [...]
Banff is putting four bio-diesel electric buses into service, likely making the town the first municipality in Canada to have an entire public transit fleet made up of hybrids.
It’s hoped the quiet and fuel-efficient vehicles, which cost $2.7 million and replace an aging fleet, will encourage people to use public transportation. The figure is about [...]
