Our family’s memorial
bench
Watercolour
©2019 Charlene Brown
Looking out over one
of the ponds at the top of Banff Ave is a bench commemorating the arrival of my
grandparents in Banff in 1904.
When my daughter and I were in Banff last September, it was the first time we’d seen it covered in snow – the benches are taken away and stored each winter. The ponds are drained too, so we were very lucky to find everything looking so picturesque.
Here’s a close-up of the plaque on the back of the bench.
