Blue plaque № 59468

Banff, AB, Canada

LUXTON RESIDENCE. Perhaps none of Banff's early settlers contributed more to the town's development than Norman K. Luxton (b.1874-d.1962). Influenced by his father, co-founder of the Winnipeg Free Press, Luxton worked as a journalist for the Calgary Herald until he moved to Vancouver in 1901. Luxton

came to Banff to recuperate after a 10,000 mile, trans-Pacific voyage aboard the canoe Tilikum, and never left. In 1902, he purchased the Banff Crag and Canyon Newspaper, which he published for 49 ye

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