Natural feature
Lake Minnewanka
Submerged resort town of wharves, cottages and hotel foundations, flooded by a wartime dam.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Lake Minnewanka, in Banff National Park, follows the hoteliers, cottage owners and boat crews who built Minnewanka Landing from eighteen eighty-eight onward, and the dams that kept returning to claim their work. It traces the town's rebuilding after a partial flood in nineteen twelve, through the wartime decision in nineteen forty-one that changed everything. A Parks Canada archaeologist explains why the government reached for this lake. Listen from the shoreline, where the water now looks calm.
This audio guide was created using AI.