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Blue plaque № 59465

Banff, AB, Canada

THE HOLMES RESIDENCE. Reggie Holmes was one of Banff's earliest pioneers. He arrived from England at the turn of the century and acquired this property in 1903, when Banff was still a part of the Northwest Territories. The original log structure was built in 1905, the year Alberta became a province.

Reggie, with his packhorses and camera, explored the mountains with the likes of Elliot Barnes, B.W. Mitchell, Mary Schaffer, and Sid Unwin. He was with the first party of "non-natives" to visit Mali

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