In Banff and Lake Louise the past is present in everything you see and most of what you do. You’ll find yourself absorbing the local history without giving it too much thought, because you’ll run into it everywhere you go.
You’ll encounter it during the bus tour commentary, at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, in pictures on hotel walls, and while window-shopping through local galleries hung with original aboriginal and Canadian art. For more than 100 years, painters, photographers, and musicians have been drawn to the Canadian Rocky Mountains by the spirit of the wilderness, the people, and the animals that call Banff National Park home.