Natural feature
Moraine Lake
Turquoise glacial lake ringed by ten jagged peaks, once pictured on Canada's twenty dollar bill.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Moraine Lake in Banff National Park follows the image that made it famous: how the view became Canada's twenty dollar bill in the late nineteen sixties, the botched first engraving that had to be scrapped, and the string of private owners who built a lakeside lodge on that same view after the Canadian Pacific Railway sold it in nineteen fifty-nine. It is a story about who gets to profit from a landscape nobody can actually own. Stand at the rockpile viewpoint for the exact angle the bill made famous.
This audio guide was created using AI.