Booming Canmore faces tough choices about a dramatic expansion in an important wildlife corridor

Feature photo from the article in The Narwhal, April 25, 2021, by Leah Hennel.

The Narwhal features a story on Canmore's conundrum regarding TSMV's latest plans

From the article: Canmore town council is weighing a proposal from a Calgary-based company called Three Sisters Mountain Village to build two new neighbourhoods on privately owned land on the town’s east side.

The developments — Three Sisters Village and Smith Creek — could roughly double Canmore’s population and extend its footprint along the lower slopes of the valley as far as Dead Man’s Flats, about 10 kilometres from Canmore’s Main Street. 

New neighbourhoods would help alleviate Canmore’s chronic housing shortage and create much-needed commercial space, but would also add significant pressure to the already fragile co-existence between wildlife and humans in the Bow Valley.