image for illustration: Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station, Kay Röllig, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
An historic weather station on Banff mountain peak has been restored, celebrates Rocky Mountain Outlook.
Rocky Mountain Outlook writes:
Constructed in 1902 by architect Ralph Edwards to collect meteorological data, the recognized federal heritage building, also known as the Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station National Historic Site of Canada, has undergone significant repairs…
Overlooking the Banff townsite from Sanson Peak at the north end of Sulphur Mountain, the weather observatory is a small, plain, one-story stone building with a hipped roof that was designated a national historic site in 1986…
‘The data collected at the station made a significant contribution to the knowledge of the climate of the Canadian Rockies, and was part of an effort launched by the federal government to promote tourism in Banff National Park…
… The Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office (FHBRO) requires ‘due diligence with respect to the… heritage value of federal heritage properties on federal land.’ This means that a FHBRO building can only be dismantled as a last resort and, if dismantled, the custodian of the building is encouraged to find new ways to communicate its heritage values.
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