Cascade of Time Garden

About this audio guide

This guide to the Cascade of Time Garden in Banff turns on the unemployed relief crews who built it in nineteen thirty-four, at the height of the Great Depression, on the ashes of a burned-down hotel. It follows architect Harold Beckett's plan for a garden shaped like a walk through the whole geological history of the earth, and the stonemasons who laid Corral Creek shale for wages the government called relief rather than pay. Look for the small rustic pavilion the crew raised at the garden's northeast corner.