Tourist attraction
Bow Valley Parkway
Quiet scenic route along the Bow River's S-curve, framed by peaks and famed for railway photography.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Morant's Curve on Banff's Bow Valley Parkway follows Nicholas Morant, the Canadian Pacific Railway photographer who talked his way into the job as a teenager in nineteen twenty-nine and spent decades along this valley. It traces his methods of directing whole trains for a single frame, the tens of thousands of negatives he left behind, and how his railway images helped shape how Canada pictured itself. Best heard at the clearing in the trees where he used to set up his camera.
This audio guide was created using AI.