Category Archives: Photos

Canmore Juxtaposed: less than a month to go (please consider donating)

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Rob Alexander

February is fast approaching and with it comes the Exposure 2015 Photography Festival and the launch of Canmore Juxtaposed: an exhibition of blended photographs. Many thanks to everyone who has  supported this project so far. These contributions have been used … Continue reading →

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Kananaskis Falls: pre Horseshoe Dam

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Rob Alexander

While I’m not against progress, after all the history of the Bow Valley is a story of industrialization, what with coal mining, limestone extraction and cement manufacturing and the Canadian Pacific Railway, I can’t help but think that Kananaskis Falls … Continue reading →

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Blending Then and Now photographs

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Rob Alexander

These photographs, blended using Photoshop, are drafts of a project I’m planning with the Canmore Musuem & Geoscience Centre (all historical images are courtesy of the museum). At this point, I’m referring to these five photographs as drafts as they … Continue reading →

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The only log opera house in the world

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Rob Alexander

While not exactly high-definition colour, this is the only colour photograph of the  Canmore Opera House I’ve seen, while it is still intact and its original location. The Canmore Museum has a colour photograph – taken in 1964 – as … Continue reading →

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Canmore Mines Ltd. locomotive No. 4 – The Goat

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Rob Alexander

Canmore Mines locomotive No. 4, better known as the Goat, was built in 1905 as locomotive No. 1644, but came to Canmore in 1943 when the mine company bought it from the Canadian Pacific Railway for $5,000. A switcher steam … Continue reading →

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Seeburg Wall-o-matic jukebox remote selector — part two

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Rob Alexander

Mystery solved! Thanks to everyone who fired suggestions/guesses my way as to where the Seeburg Wall-o-matic jukebox remote selector was located and based on the feedback: it was at the Canmore Hotel cafe. And thanks to Manny Brautigamfor sending photographic … Continue reading →

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Backyard hockey, Canmore style

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Rob Alexander

Of all the photographs the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre holds in its archives, this is one of my favourites. As far as I can guess, the picture was taken some time after the First World War – a far … Continue reading →

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Kananaskis Falls

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Rob Alexander

Before Calgary Power began construction on the Horseshoe Dam in 1911. The Kananaskis River joined the Bow River a short distance upstream of Kananaskis Falls. The falls were drowned once the dam was completed.

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Canmore Model School

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Rob Alexander

The 1922 Canmore Model School was the first building on the north side of the Bow River, known as Townside, to have electric lights. This school was demolished in 1992. © Rob Alexander 2011

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Canmore 1910

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Rob Alexander
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