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Cave and Basin National Historic Site
Steaming sulphur cave and hot-spring basin where a chance find sparked Canada's national park system.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Banff's Cave and Basin National Historic Site follows three Canadian Pacific Railway workers, Frank McCabe and brothers Tom and William McCardell, who found a sulphur-scented hot spring hidden inside Sulphur Mountain in eighteen eighty-three. It traces the dispute that followed between the men's claim on the water and Ottawa's own ambitions for the young transcontinental railway, and how that argument reshaped the land around you. Look for the red and white flowstone streaking down the cave walls as you step inside.
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