At its height, the town supported 100 homes, a business section, two schools and four churches. In 1922, an eight-month worker’s strike finally crippled the town. After months of negotiations between officials and the union failed, the shutdown remained permanent.
The site is a one kilometer loop with remnants of an old lamp-house, church, rail-car, mine and housing dotted around the landscape at the foot of Cascade Mountain near Lake Minnewanka, just a few kilometres from Banff. Drawing upon stories of the town and imagining what kind of sounds, both industrial and musical, might have taken place there we have created a structure for the performers to create sound, movement and story-telling events within.