Known as Canada’s Mountain Sports destination, Canmore offers all the amenities for a perfectly balanced work-play lifestyle. A lively town packed with excellent restaurants, boutiques and galleries and located in an impressive mountain landscape offering limitless outdoor activity across an expanse of provincial parks, wildland reserves, waterways, and snow-capped mountain peaks.
Originally a mining town, the 1988 Winter Olympics put the town on the map. Since the Olympics, Canmore has more than tripled its population. Today, Canmore embraces a vibrant mix of business owners and professionals, tourism operators and mountain guides, world-class athletes and families, artists, filmmakers, NGO headquarters, writers and impressively active retirees.
Located only 50 minutes from Calgary, Canmore with its excellent schools and amenities is a bedroom community for Calgary.
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