Today we visited a deserted coal mining town near Banff called Bankhead. The town was born supply coal for the locomotives of the Canadian Pacific Railway and at one point had over 1500 residents, that's hard to believe when you see it today. Apparently Bankhead was geographically split between the massive mine site and the residential area, it included a hotel, school facilities, pool hall, a restaurant, stores, several saloons, about 100 residential homes, a boarding house for single men and a church. After the closure of the mine many of the buidlings were removed or demolished but t
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