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Canmore is a town in Alberta, Canada, located approximately 50 miles or 81 kilometres west of Calgary City close to the southeast boundary of Banff National Park. It is located in the Bow Valley within Alberta's Rockies. The town of Canmore shares a border along with Kananaskis Country towards the south and west and the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8 to the north and east.

Canmore was officially named during the year 1884 by Canadian Pacific Railway director Donald A. Smith, who was later on named 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal. In the year 1886, Queen Victoria granted a coal mining charter to the town of Canmore, and the No. 1 mine was opened during 1887.

By the 1890s, a North-West Mounted Police barrack had been instated on Main Street, but it was vacated during 1927. The building was restored during 1989 and it is under the care of the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre.

The coal mining trade in the town of Canmore boomed well into the 20th century. In 1965, with a population of 2,000, Canmore was established as a town. In the 1970s the market for coal was diminished, and in 1979 Canmore Mines Ltd. ceased operations. As a result of reclamation and safety policies instigated by the province of Alberta, all but some mining structures were destroyed in the next year; only the lamp house and some mine entrances remain today.

The Town of Canmore originally depended on the coal mines. During the 1980s the Olympics revived the stifled economy and set the grounds for a high-end bedroom and get-away community which would depend on tourism and construction income for years to come. During 2008 the signs of the times were clearly visible all-over the town. Development projects went into receivership and foreclosures were more and more common. Canmore had practically completed the Community Sustainability Plan when a few setbacks in the early spring of 2009 essentially put the bylaw on the shelf. In the period of 2008-2009 the local economy shriveled. New housing starts dropped by 95%.

Initially built for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, the Canmore Nordic Centre was the location for cross-country skiing, biathlon, nordic combined, and blind cross-country skiing events. The Canmore Nordic Centre offers world-class trails for use by hikers, cross-country skiers and mountain bikers. It has provincial park status and is administered by Alberta Development. It has about 60 kilometres or 37 miles of world-class biathlon and cross-country trail systems designed to meet international Nordic competitive standards. The trails are groomed and trackset in order to accommodate both classic and skating techniques on the same trail. A 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) track is illuminated for night skiing.

The Day Lodge at the Canmore Nordic Centre offers services such as a cafeteria, meeting rooms, information and maps, showers, day lockers, lessons, washrooms and equipment rentals. In the summer season the Centre converts to comprise mountain biking facilities and plays host to several national and international mountain bike events annually. The Nordic Centre likewise operates an 18 "hole" disc golf course during the summer months.