Civic Center Plaza, Canmore, Alberta Live Cam

Canmore sits in the Bow valley just outside the boundary of Banff National Park, in the Alberta Rockies. The webcam looks across the civic centre plaza at the peaks behind it.

It was a coal town until 1979, when the last mine shut. Being outside the park meant it could grow in a way Banff never can, and it has roughly tripled in size since the Nordic events of the 1988 winter olympics were held here.

The summits at the end of the valley are the Three Sisters, and the wall above the town is Ha Ling Peak. Wildlife corridors have been left between the newer subdivisions so that bears and elk can still get through.