Interesting Links

Canadian Indie Rock Singer: FEIST

1, 2, 3, 4 Official Video
1, 2, 3, 4: FEIST on Sesame Street


Canadian Landscape Painter: Lawren Harris

 "Nerke" an Artic Greenland painting, sold for $2,072,500. It was originally estimated at only $300,000.
"Mt. Lefroy"

"Bylot Island"

"Northern Painting 25" (1924)


Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff National Park, ALberta (1887/1928)

1926 Fire of the original Banff Springs
The 1888 wooden building which cost $250.000 and included more than 100 bedrooms (expanding in 1902 to 200 bedrooms), burnt down and re-building started in 1904.


Its 1914 "Painter Tower" 300 guest rooms at a cost of $2 million,  was for some time the tallest building in Canada!