Welcome to Banff
Banff is the largest town within Banff National Park in the Canadian province of Alberta .
Banff is located at an altitude of 1399 m above sea level. Sea level on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains , about 140 km west of Calgary on the Trans-Canada Highway ( Highway 1 ) and 58 km south-east of Lake Louise . Near the town is the Johnson Lake.
Banff has a population of 7584 inhabitants. Their average age is in the median of 32.8 years (32.5 male / female 31.2) (as of 2011).
Banff was named in 1884 by a former director of the Canadian Pacific Railway , Lord Stephen, and after his Scottish birthplace of Banff .
Since 1976, every year is the Banff Mountain Film Festival held since 1979, the Banff World Television Festival as an international meeting of the TV industry.
From the city, several peaks are visible, including the 2998 m high Cascade Mountain and Mount Norquay . A mountain gondola leads to the nearby Sulphur Mountain .
The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Park
The rapid growth of the town of Banff in recent years has fueled the fear that the pristine nature of the Natural Park may be broken. The federal government has taken so restrictive measures, including specified that only those citizens who may take up residence in Banff, there are also a job. The censuses of 2001 and 2006, correspondingly, from a population decline from 7135 to the 6700th.
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